California · Nonprofit
INSTITUTE MIDDLE EAST UNDERSTANDING POLICY PROJECT
INSTITUTE MIDDLE EAST UNDERSTANDING POLICY PROJECT (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $20,000 to it, the largest being ORGANIZE ACTION ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Women Donors Network Actionshared funders
- Kanaan Family Foundationportfolio match
- The Salem Family Foundation Incportfolio match
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
Left out of every figure on this page: $250k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Institute for Middle East Understanding). These are real filings, and they are not money INSTITUTE MIDDLE EAST UNDERSTANDING POLICY PROJECT raised.
From the IRS filings of INSTITUTE MIDDLE EAST UNDERSTANDING POLICY PROJECT’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
INSTITUTE MIDDLE EAST UNDERSTANDING POLICY PROJECT leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 INSTITUTE MIDDLE EAST UNDERSTANDING POLICY PROJECT.
“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
INSTITUTE MIDDLE EAST UNDERSTANDING POLICY PROJECT draws 50% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 2 states in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 2 funders put you under-funded among the 199 organizations that share them.
- Women Donors Network Actionshared fundersCA · backs 47 organizations that share your funders
- Kanaan Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Salem Family Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Foundation for Middle East Peaceportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Kiblawi Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Andoni Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- State Policy Networkportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Violet Jabara Charitable Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- NetChoiceportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Recanati Foundation Attn Stephen a Gilmartinportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Roe Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Middle East Forumportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like INSTITUTE MIDDLE EAST UNDERSTANDING POLICY PROJECT
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Institute Middle East Understanding · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for INSTITUTE MIDDLE EAST UNDERSTANDING POLICY PROJECT: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds INSTITUTE MIDDLE EAST UNDERSTANDING POLICY PROJECT?
- INSTITUTE MIDDLE EAST UNDERSTANDING POLICY PROJECT (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $20,000 to it, the largest being ORGANIZE ACTION ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does INSTITUTE MIDDLE EAST UNDERSTANDING POLICY PROJECT have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $20,000 in grants to INSTITUTE MIDDLE EAST UNDERSTANDING POLICY PROJECT.
- Who is the largest funder of INSTITUTE MIDDLE EAST UNDERSTANDING POLICY PROJECT?
- ORGANIZE ACTION is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like INSTITUTE MIDDLE EAST UNDERSTANDING POLICY PROJECT find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2024–2024), and the filings of 2funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing