New York · Nonprofit
NEAR EAST FOUNDATION
NEAR EAST FOUNDATION (New York) receives grants from 32 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,307,321 to it, the largest being THE ELSA & PETER SODERBERG CHARITABLE ($1,385,690). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $22M
- Funders on record
- 32
- Grants received
- $4.3M
- Net assets
- $16M
What Near East Foundation does
Mission
To realize more prosperous, inclusive, and resilient communities, the Near East Foundation (nef) works with local partners to enable innovative, sustainable, community-led economic and social development across the middle east, africa, and the caucasus. We support marginalized people and communities to cultivate new skills and to access resources, networks, and opportunities to shape a future where they can overcome vulnerability to poverty, economic and social inequity, conflict, climate change and environmental degradation.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The organization operates three core programs: inclusive economic development, which expands access to capital and business support for small and growing enterprises; agriculture and climate resilient development, which strengthens sustainable agriculture, food security, and climate adaptation for rural communities; and hdp nexus, humanitarian, and wash programming, which provides integrated emergency response, water, sanitation, hygiene, recovery, and resilience support in crisis-affected areas.inclusive economic developmentprovides financing, technical assistance, and ecosystem strengthening support to small and growing enterprises, with a focus on improving access to capital, strengthening business operations and market system, supporting job creation, and expanding economic opportunities and inclusion in underserved communities.
$9,046,187 spentof which $123,300 as grants45% of program spendingAgriculture and climate resilient developmentsupports farmers, producer groups, and rural communities to strengthen agricultural productivity, improve climate resilience, adopt sustainable practices, and enhance food security, value chains, and livelihoods.
$5,676,601 spent29% of program spendingHdp nexus, humanitarian, and washdelivers humanitarian and development support in crisis-affected communities, including water, sanitation, and hygiene services, while linking emergency response with longer-term resilience, recovery, and peacebuilding efforts.
$2,394,960 spent12% of program spendingAll other programs
$2,765,899 spent14% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $19,883,647.
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 2022 to 2023, from $16M to $29M (+76%).
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 89% · 2018 89% · 2019 89% · 2020 87% · 2021 83% · 2022 86% · 2023 88% · 2024 64% · 2025 66%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of NEAR EAST FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (96% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 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
Nina Bogosian Quigley
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $51k → $563k.
10 of 32 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 24% 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 NEAR EAST FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 32 funders by total. 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
NEAR EAST FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 32% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
48% 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 NEAR EAST FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 72% · 2018 78% · 2019 50% · 2020 35% · 2021 37% · 2022 42% · 2023 44% — diversifying over time.
“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
63% of NEAR EAST FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 72% 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
NEAR EAST FOUNDATION draws 84% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 12 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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
NEAR EAST FOUNDATION holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 174 international nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 174 international nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding NEAR EAST FOUNDATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $57.2M on record.
- Department of State$34.3M
- Agency for International Development$23.0M
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 NEAR EAST FOUNDATION
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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
92% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 5 related entities
- Nefdev LLC · disregarded
- Near East Foundation UK Limited · disregarded
- Nef Belgium Sa · disregarded
- Nef Global LLC · disregarded
- Siraj Financial Services · disregarded
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Questions and answers
- Who funds NEAR EAST FOUNDATION?
- NEAR EAST FOUNDATION (New York) receives grants from 32 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,307,321 to it, the largest being THE ELSA & PETER SODERBERG CHARITABLE ($1,385,690). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NEAR EAST FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 32 organizations giving $4,307,321 in grants to NEAR EAST FOUNDATION, 23 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NEAR EAST FOUNDATION?
- THE ELSA & PETER SODERBERG CHARITABLE is the largest funder on record, with $1,385,690 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NEAR EAST FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 32 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