Massachusetts · Nonprofit
MIDDLE EAST CENTER FOR REPORTING AND ANALYSIS
MIDDLE EAST CENTER FOR REPORTING AND ANALYSIS (Massachusetts) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $65,600 to it, the largest being MIDDLE EAST FORUM ($45,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2020
- $7k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $66k
- Net assets
- $15k
What Middle East Center for Reporting and Analysis does
Mission
To bridge the gap between field reporting and analysis in the middle east through working with policymakers, scholars, local experts and journalists.
As stated on its FY2020 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Mecra brings together the most committed and intrepid reporters operating in key sites in the middle east at the present time, with some of the most skilled and deeply knowledgeable analysts, and in particular showcase the work of writers whose skill set combines both elements, enabling them both to observe the unfolding realities from close up, to know where to look within the huge canopy of unfolding stories in the region today, and to correctly interpret what they have seen. To combine action and the insightful contemplation of action. Our unique focus is on recruiting and disseminating the views of people who are in the field and possess language skills from the region, who have access to influencers and local power structures or dissidents and who provide original views on the dynamics that are changing on the ground. The result is to identify trends that will affect the region and the global interconnected world. This will help provide the public and policymakers with information to help confront changes.the purpose of this is to present a picture of key regional stories both accessible, but of unrivaled detail and rigor. We provide the space for both reported stories,…
The first program described on its most recent Form 990-EZ.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2018 to 2019, from $14k to $23k (+62%).
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.
100% of MIDDLE EAST CENTER FOR REPORTING AND ANALYSIS’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (65% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2022: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $33k → $550.
From the IRS filings of MIDDLE EAST CENTER FOR REPORTING AND ANALYSIS’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
MIDDLE EAST CENTER FOR REPORTING AND ANALYSIS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 69% 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
69% 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 MIDDLE EAST CENTER FOR REPORTING AND ANALYSIS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 91% · 2019 55% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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
MIDDLE EAST CENTER FOR REPORTING AND ANALYSIS draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Massachusetts, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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.
Against its field
MIDDLE EAST CENTER FOR REPORTING AND ANALYSIS's revenue fell 79% between 2018 and 2020.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,624 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2020
Organizations like MIDDLE EAST CENTER FOR REPORTING AND ANALYSIS
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 Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MIDDLE EAST CENTER FOR REPORTING AND ANALYSIS: 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 MIDDLE EAST CENTER FOR REPORTING AND ANALYSIS?
- MIDDLE EAST CENTER FOR REPORTING AND ANALYSIS (Massachusetts) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $65,600 to it, the largest being MIDDLE EAST FORUM ($45,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MIDDLE EAST CENTER FOR REPORTING AND ANALYSIS have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $65,600 in grants to MIDDLE EAST CENTER FOR REPORTING AND ANALYSIS, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MIDDLE EAST CENTER FOR REPORTING AND ANALYSIS?
- MIDDLE EAST FORUM is the largest funder on record, with $45,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MIDDLE EAST CENTER FOR REPORTING AND ANALYSIS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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 FY2020 (financials across 2018–2020), and the filings of 2 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