Form 990 for tax year 2023
Filed by COUNCIL OF AMERICAN OVERSEAS RESEARCH CENTERS.
Totals
- Total revenue
- $6,470,375
- Total expenses
- $6,342,969
- Contributions and grants received
- $5,968,757
- Grants paid
- $4,691,717
- Program service revenue
- $350,000
- Investment income
- $111,342
- Other revenue
- $40,276
- Total assets, end of year
- $4,679,949
- Total liabilities, end of year
- $1,153,067
- Net assets or fund balances, end of year
- $3,526,882
- Program services expenses (Part IX)
- $6,165,291
- Management and general expenses
- $177,678
- Fundraising expenses
- $0
- Program service expenses (Part III)
- $6,165,291
Program services were 97.2% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.
Line items
Every line the filer filed in Parts VIII, IX and X, as filed and in filed order. Blank columns are left out, and the lines are not forced to add up to the totals above.
Revenue
Part VIII, the statement of revenue.
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1b · Membership dues
$72,000
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1e · Government grants (contributions)
$5,539,327
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1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants
$357,430
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2a · Program service revenue: Contracted Services
total $350,000 · related or exempt $350,000
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3 · Investment income
total $87,533 · excluded $87,533
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7a · Gross sales of assets other than inventory
securities $1,305,855
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7b · Less cost or other basis and sales expenses
securities $1,282,046
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7c · Gain or loss
securities $23,809
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7d · Net gain or loss
total $23,809 · excluded $23,809
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11a · Other revenue: Other Income
total $40,276 · related or exempt $40,276
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11e · Other revenue, total
$40,276
Functional expenses
Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.
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1 · Grants to domestic organizations and governments
total $4,471,931 · program services $4,471,931
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2 · Grants to domestic individuals
total $163,786 · program services $163,786
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3 · Grants to foreign organizations and individuals
total $56,000 · program services $56,000
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5 · Compensation of officers, directors and key employees
total $194,656 · program services $185,282 · management and general $9,374
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7 · Other salaries and wages
total $365,514 · program services $347,914 · management and general $17,600
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8 · Pension plan contributions
total $25,015 · program services $23,810 · management and general $1,205
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9 · Other employee benefits
total $73,686 · program services $70,138 · management and general $3,548
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10 · Payroll taxes
total $40,755 · program services $38,792 · management and general $1,963
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11b · Fees: legal
total $53,002 · program services $50,352 · management and general $2,650
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11c · Fees: accounting
total $67,597 · program services $64,482 · management and general $3,115
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11f · Fees: investment management
total $26,027 · management and general $26,027
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11g · Fees: other
total $576,857 · program services $553,659 · management and general $23,198
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13 · Office expenses
total $40,993 · program services $26,746 · management and general $14,247
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17 · Travel
total $64,529 · program services $48,622 · management and general $15,907
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19 · Conferences, conventions and meetings
total $5,640 · management and general $5,640
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23 · Insurance
total $8,052 · program services $7,649 · management and general $403
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24a · Other expenses: Membership
total $37,835 · management and general $37,835
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24b · Other expenses: Dues & Subscriptions
total $71,094 · program services $56,128 · management and general $14,966
Balance sheet
Part X, book values.
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1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing
beginning of year $535,398 · end of year $118,681
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3 · Pledges and grants receivable
beginning of year $1,160,110 · end of year $1,263,542
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4 · Accounts receivable
beginning of year $23,079 · end of year $49,624
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9 · Prepaid expenses and deferred charges
beginning of year $159,825 · end of year $19,373
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11 · Investments: publicly traded securities
beginning of year $2,676,549 · end of year $3,228,729
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17 · Accounts payable and accrued expenses
beginning of year $680,157 · end of year $1,053,067
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19 · Deferred revenue
beginning of year $949,242 · end of year $100,000
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27 · Net assets without donor restrictions
beginning of year $1,053,200 · end of year $1,845,848
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28 · Net assets with donor restrictions
beginning of year $1,872,362 · end of year $1,681,034
Mission and programs · 2023
Mission
The Council of American Overseas Research Centers (CAORC) is a private non-profit federation of independent overseas research centers that promotes research to advance knowledge of the world outside The United States in an era of global engagement.
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Overseas Research Center Support: Provides general support and administration of U.S. Department of State Funding, through subgrants, to twenty-three of the twenty-five American overseas research centers/programs.
Expenses $5,374,894 · Grants $4,287,082
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Special Projects: Administers an acquisition project for the Library of Congress to collect, document and catalog published material and ephemera in twelve West African countries; manages a program to preserve damaged or at-risk heritage sites and museum collections in the Middle East through grants from the J.M. Kaplan fund and Aliph Foundation; administers a program to support advanced research in the humanities through fellowship programs at independent research institutions (FPIRI) funded by the national endowment for the humanities; conducts a project to support critical research and strenghten scholarly capacity in Tunisia, Algeria and Libya through a grant from the Carnegie Corporation of New York.
Expenses $472,185 · Grants $304,974 · Revenue $350,000
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International Academic Development: Conducts a project to build institutional capacity and strengthen academic research and teaching on the arts and humanities within Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco through a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Expenses $318,212 · Grants $99,661
As filed on the 2023 return.
Listed in Part VII
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Heidi Wiederkehr
Executive Director
- Total calculated
- $206,157
- From this org
- $194,656
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $11,501
- Hours/week
- 40
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $194,656
- Bonus
- not reported
- Other
- not reported
- Deferred
- $10,500
- Nontaxable benefits
- $1,001
- Filer's total
- $206,157
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James Miller
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Penelope Mitchell
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Cynthia Radding
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Donald Kane
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Mark Lawall
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Maureen Marshall
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Sumathi Ramaswamy
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Flagg Miller
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Peter Wien
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Eve Zucker
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Brian Rose
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Franois Tainturier
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Mythri Jegathesan
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Paula DePriest
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Katharyn Hanson
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Thomas Barfield
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Milan Shrestra
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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J Mark Kenoyer
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Ismael Montana
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Pearce Paul Creasman
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Robert Hefner
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Kathryn Grossman
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Louise Bertini
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Matt Cook
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Anne Betteridge
Chair
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 7
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Leonardo Villalon
Former Chair
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 4.5
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Siddharth Chandra
Treasurer
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 4.5
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Ali Riaz
Vice Chair
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 4.5
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Ann-Marie Knoblauch
Secretary
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 4.5
Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us.
Schedule J
Answered yes
- 3 · Form 990 of other organizations
- 3 · Compensation survey or study
- 3 · Approval by the board or compensation committee
Answered no
- 4a · Severance or change-of-control payment
- 4b · Supplemental nonqualified retirement plan
- 4c · Equity-based compensation arrangement
- 5a · Pay contingent on this organization's revenues
- 5b · Pay contingent on a related organization's revenues
- 6a · Pay contingent on this organization's net earnings
- 6b · Pay contingent on a related organization's net earnings
- 7 · Other non-fixed payments
- 8 · Paid under the initial-contract exception
Part I's answers as filed. A line not listed was left unanswered; on lines 1a and 3 that means the box was not checked.
Grants on this return
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West African Research Association
$704,314
Pass-through subgrants
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American Inst for Maghrib Studies
$561,149
Pass-through subgrants
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American Inst - Pakistan Studies
$325,606
Pass-through subgrants
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American Inst - Indian Studies
$305,552
Pass-through subgrants
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American Research Inst - Turkey
$228,500
Pass-through subgrants
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American Research Center in Egypt
$192,325
Pass-through subgrants
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American Inst - Iranian Studies
$185,039
Pass-through subgrants
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$185,000
Pass-through subgrants
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The Academic Research Inst - Iraq
$172,448
Pass-through subgrants
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American Center - Mongolian Studies
$170,936
Pass-through subgrants
The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.
Provenance
- Return type
- form_990
- Tax year
- 2023
- Filed
- 7 August 2025
- IRS schema version
- 2023v6.0
- Source object
- 202512199349301811
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