Illinois · Nonprofit
MIDDLE EASTERN IMMIGRANT & REFUGEE ALLIANCE
MIDDLE EASTERN IMMIGRANT & REFUGEE ALLIANCE (Illinois) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,208,778 to it, the largest being ILLINOIS COALITION FOR IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE RIGHTS ($1,794,490). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $984k
- Funders on record
- 13
- Grants received
- $2.2M
- Net assets
- $332k
What Middle Eastern Immigrant & Refugee Alliance does
Mission
To foster well-being and self-sufficiency for resettled refugees and immigrants from across the middle east and beyond, and to use our multilingual and multicultural expertise to tailor our services to the unique needs of our clients.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Our goal is to foster well-being and self-sufficiency for resettled refugees and immigrants from across the middle east and beyond, and to use our multilingual and multicultural expertise to tailor our services to the unique needs of our clients whom we serve regardless of gender, religion, ethnicity, nationality, or family size.our staff and volunteers speak arabic, assyrian, kurdish, and farsi. Almost all arrived to the united states as refugees themselves.case management $108,818.00education and family services $64,236.00community engagement $50,418.00legal clinic $41,233.00
$663,684 spent$783,347 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $663,684.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2024 to 2025, from $199k to $348k (+75%).
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: 2020 87% · 2021 91% · 2022 92% · 2023 84% · 2024 87% · 2025 94%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of MIDDLE EASTERN IMMIGRANT & REFUGEE ALLIANCE’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 6 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.
Board chair
Zinah Kadhim
Presidentboard chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2024 and FY2025 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 4 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $101k → $281k.
4 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 8% 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 EASTERN IMMIGRANT & REFUGEE ALLIANCE’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 EASTERN IMMIGRANT & REFUGEE ALLIANCE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 81% of grant income and the top three 91%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
95% 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 EASTERN IMMIGRANT & REFUGEE ALLIANCE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 53% · 2018 67% · 2019 87% · 2020 62% · 2021 91% · 2022 79% · 2023 91% — 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
38% of MIDDLE EASTERN IMMIGRANT & REFUGEE ALLIANCE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 38% 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
97% of MIDDLE EASTERN IMMIGRANT & REFUGEE ALLIANCE's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $182k 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 EASTERN IMMIGRANT & REFUGEE ALLIANCE has grown faster than three-quarters of the 2,468 international nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,468 international nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding MIDDLE EASTERN IMMIGRANT & REFUGEE ALLIANCE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.9M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$1.9M
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 EASTERN IMMIGRANT & REFUGEE ALLIANCE
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 Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
79% 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
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MIDDLE EASTERN IMMIGRANT & REFUGEE ALLIANCE: 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 EASTERN IMMIGRANT & REFUGEE ALLIANCE?
- MIDDLE EASTERN IMMIGRANT & REFUGEE ALLIANCE (Illinois) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,208,778 to it, the largest being ILLINOIS COALITION FOR IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE RIGHTS ($1,794,490). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MIDDLE EASTERN IMMIGRANT & REFUGEE ALLIANCE have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $2,208,778 in grants to MIDDLE EASTERN IMMIGRANT & REFUGEE ALLIANCE, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MIDDLE EASTERN IMMIGRANT & REFUGEE ALLIANCE?
- ILLINOIS COALITION FOR IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE RIGHTS is the largest funder on record, with $1,794,490 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MIDDLE EASTERN IMMIGRANT & REFUGEE ALLIANCE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 13 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