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MIDDLE EAST RESEARCH & INFO PROJECT

MIDDLE EAST RESEARCH & INFO PROJECT (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,510 to it, the largest being THE MARY ANN AND LAWRENCE TUCKER FOUNDATION ($3,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$64k
Funders on record
3
Grants received
$4k
Net assets
$10k
1/3 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 1%
01What it does

What Middle East Research & Info Project does

Mission

support research, publication

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. To support research, publication, & distribution of information, including print, aimed atpromoting the cultural legitimacy of human rights in the Arab world.

    $68,150 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $68,150.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($109k) Expenses 100 ($137k) Net assets 100 ($28k)2019 Revenue 213 ($233k) Expenses 166 ($226k) Net assets 125 ($35k)2020 Revenue 76 ($83k) Expenses 79 ($107k) Net assets 38 ($11k)2021 Revenue 124 ($135k) Expenses 77 ($105k) Net assets 149 ($41k)2022 Revenue 75 ($82k) Expenses 58 ($79k) Net assets 166 ($46k)2023 Revenue 37 ($40k) Expenses 49 ($66k) Net assets 66 ($18k)2024 Revenue 40 ($44k) Expenses 41 ($55k) Net assets 19 ($5k)2025 Revenue 59 ($64k) Expenses 46 ($63k) Net assets 37 ($10k)
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Revenue (59)Expenses (46)Net assets (37)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $50k to $22k (−55%).

$36k
$47k
$20k
$44k
$50k
$22k
$9k
$10k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of MIDDLE EAST RESEARCH & INFO PROJECT’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (100% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,031 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$27k
’18
$7k
’19
−$24k
’20
$31k
’21
$4k
’22
−$26k
’23
−$12k
’24
$905
’25
2.1
months of
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 Ryan

Executive Director

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

20192020
Listed88
Joined·+0
No longer listed·0
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2021: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $3k → $505.

1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 RESEARCH & INFO 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

MIDDLE EAST RESEARCH & INFO PROJECT leans on a few funders — its largest provides 85% 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

85%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 99% — broadly stable.

“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 RESEARCH & INFO PROJECT draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Pennsylvania, across 2 states in all.

CT
DE

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’19
’21
Pennsylvania out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

MIDDLE EAST RESEARCH & INFO PROJECT runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 1,793 international nonprofits its size.

Operating margin1% · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−7% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,793 international nonprofits under $100k, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MIDDLE EAST RESEARCH & INFO 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.

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Questions and answers

Who funds MIDDLE EAST RESEARCH & INFO PROJECT?
MIDDLE EAST RESEARCH & INFO PROJECT (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,510 to it, the largest being THE MARY ANN AND LAWRENCE TUCKER FOUNDATION ($3,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does MIDDLE EAST RESEARCH & INFO PROJECT have?
IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $3,510 in grants to MIDDLE EAST RESEARCH & INFO PROJECT, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of MIDDLE EAST RESEARCH & INFO PROJECT?
THE MARY ANN AND LAWRENCE TUCKER FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $3,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like MIDDLE EAST RESEARCH & INFO PROJECT find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 3 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