Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
MIDDLE EAST INVESTMENT INITIATIVE INC
MIDDLE EAST INVESTMENT INITIATIVE INC (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $977,250 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($270,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 80% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.8M
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $977k
- Net assets
- $1.4M
What Middle East Investment Initiative Inc does
Mission
Middle east investment initiative, inc. (meii) stimulates sustainable economic activity and long-lasting job creation in the middle east and north africa (mena) by designing and deploying finance and technical assistance programs to benefit entrepreneurs and small and medium sized enterprises (sme's). Founded with the conviction that the path to social and political suitability in the mena region requires a sound and sustainable economic base, meii breaks from traditional aid models and designs innovative development finance initiatives that foster economic opportunities and dignity instead of dependency.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Stimulating local lending: founded with the conviction that the path to social and political suitability in the mena region requires a sound and sustainable economic base, meii breaks from traditional aid models and designs innovative development finance initiatives that foster economic opportunities and dignity instead of dependency. Meii has been proving for over a decade that formal and informal small and medium-sized enterprises (smes) are both credit worthy and net contributors to job creation in the mena region. Starting in palestine in 2008 and expanding to tunisia in 2015, meii has financed over $642 million in lending to more than 4,773 businesses with a cumulative loss rate of less than 1.2%. Over this period, an estimated 42,267 jobs have been created and sustained in the region. Meii stimulates local bank lending by providing partner banks with loan guarantees and technical assistance to assess the viability of their sme clients and structure loans to meet borrower working capital and longer-term capital needs.
$1,496,608 spent$168,876 earned by the program55% of program spendingTamweeli: meii also facilitates sme access to capital by improving the accounting and financial literacy of businesses and matching them to available capital through an innovative online platform called "tamweeli". Starting in palestine in 2014 and expanding to jordan and tunisia, more than 3,841 smes received technical assistance from meii business advisors. The tamweeli platform harnesses the security, speed, and simplicity of the internet to streamline the financing process for both financial intermediaries & smes, connecting businesses with funding for growth and helping lenders and investors assess opportunities. More than 13,550 smes have registered on the platform and $25.5 million in loans have been financed by local financial intermediaries.
$535,351 spent20% of program spendingOther programs including technical assistance. Focusing on mses in jordan to enable them to access finance, meii expands its access to financial literacy-building and digital financial management tools, and supports solutions to increase adoption of software and digital solutions for a2f for mses. In jordan, focuses on access to finance for msmes. On the demand side, meii enhanced financial capacities of more than 650 small entrepreneurs across 12 governorates. On the supply side, meii has increased the dialogue and mutual understanding between the mfis, banks and loan guarantee facilities to enhance access to finance reaching more than 170 bankers, mfi teams, and other financial sector actors. Through another donor-funded program, we improved the access to innovative financial services for growth-oriented micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises (msmes).
$433,567 spent16% of program spendingMissing middle market gap : developing a regional risk fund to finance missing middle smes.
$239,306 spent9% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,704,832.
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 2018 to 2019, from $3.0M to $1.7M (−43%).
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: 2017 84% · 2018 84% · 2019 88% · 2020 90% · 2021 89% · 2022 91% · 2023 81% · 2024 83%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
93% of MIDDLE EAST INVESTMENT INITIATIVE INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (61% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 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
James Pickup
President and CEO
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 4 funders to 2 funders, grant income fell $120k → $75k.
4 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 80% 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 MIDDLE EAST INVESTMENT INITIATIVE INC’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 INVESTMENT INITIATIVE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 28% of grant income and the top three 73%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
80% 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 INVESTMENT INITIATIVE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 42% · 2018 31% · 2019 34% · 2020 57% · 2021 30% · 2022 63% · 2023 67% — 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.
How long its funders stay
75% of MIDDLE EAST INVESTMENT INITIATIVE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 100% 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
80% of MIDDLE EAST INVESTMENT INITIATIVE INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $195k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 3 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $782k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
MIDDLE EAST INVESTMENT INITIATIVE INC is better cushioned than half of the 4,203 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,203 community improvement nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding MIDDLE EAST INVESTMENT INITIATIVE INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $3.0M on record.
- Overseas Private Investment Corporation$3.0M
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like MIDDLE EAST INVESTMENT INITIATIVE INC
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
96% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Sharaka Capital Management LLC · disregarded
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Questions and answers
- Who funds MIDDLE EAST INVESTMENT INITIATIVE INC?
- MIDDLE EAST INVESTMENT INITIATIVE INC (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $977,250 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($270,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 80% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does MIDDLE EAST INVESTMENT INITIATIVE INC have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $977,250 in grants to MIDDLE EAST INVESTMENT INITIATIVE INC, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MIDDLE EAST INVESTMENT INITIATIVE INC?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $270,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MIDDLE EAST INVESTMENT INITIATIVE INC 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 8 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