Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
AMIDEAST
AMIDEAST (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,113,937 to it, the largest being WORLD LEARNING INC ($2,911,610). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $46M
- Funders on record
- 28
- Grants received
- $6.1M
- Net assets
- $11M
What Amideast does
Mission
Our mission is to create hope, opportunity, and mutual understanding among people in the middle east, north africa, and the united states through life-changing opportunities for education and cultural exchanges.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Exchange programs: governments, donor agencies, educational institutions, and corporations turn to Amideast for assistance in managing scholarships and exchange programs in the united states for middle eastern and north african students. Successful programs require solid logistics and support: sponsors must determine appropriate selection criteria and make the most of limited resources; candidates seek advice on educational choices and on handling applications, financing, and travel arrangements; and participant progress needs to be closely monitored. Amideast ensures that all these requirements are met so that scholarships and exchange programs can achieve their objectives. Amideast's services to education and training program sponsors include program announcement and recruiting of candidates; managing the selection process; placement; predeparture orientation; ongoing advising and monitoring; financial administration; reporting to sponsors. In 2025, approximately 634 students studied in the u.s. With support from Amideast.
$15,824,795 spentof which $4,927 as grants$20,026,533 earned by the program45% of program spendingEnglish language: Amideast is among the largest providers of english language training in the middle east and north africa (mena). In addition to offering english for young learners and teens, general english and english for business purposes for adults, and test preparation courses for standardized english language exams, Amideast also designs and delivers english for specific purposes; programs to meet the specialized requirements of public and private sector entities, including national ministries, international and nongovernmental organizations, and businesses. Amideast combines its experience in language training and institutional capacity building to help government ministries, public agencies, and educational institutions develop and improve their own english language training programs. Beginning in 2022, Amideast partnered with morocco's ministry of national education to support the development and implementation of a new english language curriculum for the nation's public middle schools and to strengthen institutional capacity for nationwide implementation. Initially launched through usaid-supported programming, the collaboration has continued through a direct partnership…
$6,460,662 spent$8,124,478 earned by the program18% of program spendingTesting: as the leading test administrator in the middle east/north africa region, Amideast handles registration for and supervision of examinations for hundreds of thousands of students. Amideast administers most required u.s. Standardized tests, including the toefl, gre, toefl itp, and toeic. Testing services are provided for individuals and a variety of institutions, from ministries and universities to small businesses. With more than fifty years of experience, Amideast provides support in all areas of testing: identification of appropriate, recognized exams for academic or professional purposes; registration services; test administration and proctoring; quick, accurate, and secure scoring; and test preparation resources, courseware, and classes. In 2025, Amideast administered approximately 140,000 computer-based, paper-based, and internet-based tests.
$5,157,426 spent$7,113,348 earned by the program15% of program spendingTraining: Amideast field offices offer training programs and courses that provide individuals and institutions in the region-including private corporations, government agencies, and nonprofit organizations-with the skills they need to meet professional challenges. Among the subject areas in which Amideast routinely offers training are employability skills, project management, entrepreneurship, stem, and basic business skills. Amideast's signature skills for success program addresses skill gaps such as english language and it skills as well as essential workplace skills, enabling participating youth to become more competitive in the job market. Amideast also operates skills centers throughout morocco in partnership with a major foundation there. Amideast delivers its training programs in person, online, and on a blended model as appropriate to meet the diverse needs, constraints, and opportunities. In 2025, over 5,000 individuals, including youth, benefited from Amideast's training programs.
$3,932,268 spent$4,967,392 earned by the program11% of program spendingEducational advising: Amideast offers expert, reliable guidance on u.s. Study and training options. Our educational information centers help individuals and institutions select the right options for their specific needs. Amideast educationusa advisers provide comprehensive, accurate, and impartial support to students in morocco, tunisia, egypt, lebanon, yemen, west bank/gaza and libya. Some of the resources available at Amideast educationusa centers include extensive libraries focusing on the u.s. Educational system and study opportunities; presentations on the u.s. Admissions process, specific fields of study, orientation to u.s. Life and study, and other topics; individual consultations with our professional advising staff; support for each step of the application process, and assistance for u.s. Graduates returning home. Centers also work with groups of well-qualified but financially disadvantaged students to help them gain university admission and scholarships. In 2025, Amideast educationusa centers provided information and guidance to approximately 100,000 contacts through in-person and virtual events and activities.
$2,128,711 spent$1,638,727 earned by the program6% of program spendingEducation abroad: Amideast implements undergraduate semester and summer education abroad programs. In 2025, these programs were administered in jordan, morocco, tunisia, and the uae. In addition, Amideast hosts pre-college students for summer and academic year programs through the national security language initiative for youth and the kennedy-lugar youth exchange and study abroad program, both sponsored by the u.s. Department of state. For groups of american students or professionals, Amideast designs and implements academic study, cultural immersion, and professional development programs in the middle east and north africa. These programs are tailored to the needs and interests of each sponsor, can range in duration from a few days to an entire academic year and be conducted onsite, virtually, or on a hybrid model. Among the program elements Amideast provides are predeparture and arrival orientations; academic courses and lectures; memorable cultural experiences; arabic language instruction; excursions, community-based worksite placements, and professional meetings; and housing, including homestays. In 2025, Amideast supported education abroad programs for 307 participants on 29…
$1,867,031 spent$1,692,987 earned by the program5% of program spendingInstitutional strengthening: for decades, Amideast has contributed to strengthening institutions in the middle east and north africa through a range of specialized services and programs designed to meet the needs of governments, nongovernmental organizations, and companies. We have administered programs that improved the quality of teaching and learning at k-12 and higher education institutions, empowered youth to play active and productive roles in their communities, advanced the quality of judicial training, contributed to faculty development at educational institutions, raised awareness of the importance of transparency and accountability in local government, improved operational and program management capacity at local ngos, and increased the participation of civil society organizations in public discourse. In 2025, Amideast concluded a multi-year institutional strengthening project in yemen and began a project to strengthen independent palestinian media organizations in the west bank.
$120,550 spent$158,100 earned by the program0% of program spending
The 7 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $35,491,441. The per-program figures do not add up to the total the return states; both are shown as filed.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $36M to $43M (+18%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 6% · 2022 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
2% of AMIDEAST’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (96% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Former Amb Greta Holtz
President & CEO
Board chair
Former Amb Deborah K Jones
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2018 and FY2019 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 12 funders to 7 funders, grant income fell $1.3M → $363k.
11 of 28 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 27% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of AMIDEAST’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
AMIDEAST leans on a few funders — its largest provides 48% of grant income and the top three 66%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
87% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund AMIDEAST.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 81% · 2018 73% · 2019 62% · 2020 43% · 2021 49% · 2022 50% · 2023 48% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
40% of AMIDEAST's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
AMIDEAST draws 88% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 8 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
AMIDEAST's revenue fell 30% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 174 international nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like AMIDEAST
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
75% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
65%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for AMIDEAST: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds AMIDEAST?
- AMIDEAST (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,113,937 to it, the largest being WORLD LEARNING INC ($2,911,610). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does AMIDEAST have?
- IRS filings report 28 organizations giving $6,113,937 in grants to AMIDEAST, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AMIDEAST?
- WORLD LEARNING INC is the largest funder on record, with $2,911,610 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AMIDEAST find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 28 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing