Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
Education for Peace in Iraq Center
Education for Peace in Iraq Center (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $283,442 to it, the largest being LYNN HANDLEMAN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($135,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $308k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $283k
- Net assets
- $38k
What Education for Peace in Iraq Center does
Mission
To act as a rights-based development organization focused on climate and the environment, good governance, and human security in Iraq through groundbreaking field work, research, policy analysis, and advocacy.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
RESEARCH & EDUCATION PROGRAM: Producing Independent Iraq Analysis and Public Education on Governance, Climate, and Human Security In 2025, EPIC strengthened its role as a trusted source of independent research and public education on Iraqs political, security, humanitarian, governance, and environmental challenges. Through its flagship publication, the Iraq Security and Humanitarian Monitor (ISHM), EPIC continued providing timely weekly analysis grounded in Iraqi Arabic and Kurdish sources for policymakers, journalists, researchers, humanitarian actors, and the public. EPIC also expanded its research and public education on Iraqs climate and environmental crises. We published Making Every Drop Count, a field-based report examining Iraqs worsening water crisis and the potential of drip irrigation to help farmers conserve water, improve yields, and adapt to drought. Based on interviews and site visits with farmers, officials, researchers, environmental advocates, and journalists, the report provided practical recommendations for national water conservation and agricultural resilience. EPIC also published a policy paper on wastewater management reform, reframing Iraqs clean water…
$112,109 spent45% of program spendingFIELD-BASED PROJECTS: Supporting Iraqi-Led Environmental Action, Public Health Monitoring, and Youth Healing In 2025, EPIC advanced locally led field work in Iraq through partnerships with trusted Iraqi civil society organizations addressing urgent environmental, public health, and humanitarian needs. EPICs field-based work focused on practical, evidence-based initiatives that helped Iraqi partners document harms, raise public awareness, engage officials, and offer solutions. With the Iraq Health Access Organization (IHAO) in Baghdad, EPIC helped restore public access to real-time air quality information after the citys only public monitor went offline. EPIC assisted IHAO in procuring and installing an open-source air quality monitor in central Baghdad and launching the public website Baghdadi Breeze, giving residents, researchers, advocates, and officials renewed access to live pollution data in a city of nearly 9 million people. IHAO also began using the project to engage international organizations and seek cooperation with Iraqi environmental authorities. With Waterkeepers Iraq in Sulaymaniyah, EPIC supported work documenting Iraqs water crisis and advancing locally grounded…
$78,404 spentof which $17,361 as grants32% of program spendingPOLICY ANALYSIS & ADVOCACY PROGRAM: Advancing Evidence-Based Advocacy on Iraqs Governance, Environment, and Human Security In 2025, EPIC strengthened its policy analysis and advocacy program by bringing grounded Iraqi realities into discussions with international institutions, policy experts, donors, and the public. At a time of political uncertainty, climate stress, and shrinking international assistance, EPIC worked to ensure that Iraqs challenges remained visible and that policy discussions were informed by credible, locally grounded analysis. EPIC briefed European Union asylum experts at the EUAA Specialist Network Meeting on Iraq in The Hague, helping ensure that European policy discussions were informed by current analysis of Iraqs security, humanitarian, and political landscape. The trip also allowed EPIC to strengthen relationships with Iraq-focused researchers, civil society experts, and environmental partners, including Humat Dijlah and SGP-International. This engagement reflected EPICs broader role as a bridge between Iraqi realities and international decision-makers. EPIC continued its environmental justice advocacy on gas flaring, wastewater, water scarcity, and…
$56,296 spent23% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $246,809.
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 2017 to 2018, from $206k to $110k (−47%).
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: 2019 66% · 2020 8% · 2021 8% · 2022 9% · 2023 6% · 2024 7% · 2025 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of Education for Peace in Iraq Center’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (100% 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
Erik Gustafson
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $69k → $22k.
2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 14% 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 Education for Peace in Iraq Center’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
Education for Peace in Iraq Center leans on a few funders — its largest provides 48% of grant income and the top three 86%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
38% 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 Education for Peace in Iraq Center.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 92% · 2022 100% · 2023 77% — 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.
Where its funders are
Education for Peace in Iraq Center draws 72% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $40k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
Education for Peace in Iraq Center runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 2,673 international nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,673 international nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Education for Peace in Iraq Center
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
94% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
38%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Education for Peace in Iraq Center: 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 Education for Peace in Iraq Center?
- Education for Peace in Iraq Center (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $283,442 to it, the largest being LYNN HANDLEMAN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($135,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Education for Peace in Iraq Center have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $283,442 in grants to Education for Peace in Iraq Center, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Education for Peace in Iraq Center?
- LYNN HANDLEMAN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $135,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Education for Peace in Iraq Center 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 5 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing