Form 990 for tax year 2023

Totals

Total revenue

$1,112,933

Total expenses

$1,069,212

Contributions and grants received

$1,112,862

Grants paid

$0

Program service revenue

$0

Investment income

$71

Other revenue

$0

Total assets, end of year

$695,061

Total liabilities, end of year

$7,200

Net assets or fund balances, end of year

$687,861

Program services expenses (Part IX)

$743,946

Management and general expenses

$325,266

Fundraising expenses

$0

Program service expenses (Part III)

$743,946

Program services were 69.6% 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.

Mission and programs · 2023

• CRITICAL ANALYSES OF U.S./MIDDLE EAST POLICY TOWARDS CONFLICT DE-ESCALATION AND RESOLUTION IN THE REGION THE U.S./MIDDLE EAST PROJECT (USMEP) HELD AN IN-PERSON MEETING DURING THIS PERIOD. GIVEN THE EVENTS UNFOLDING AFTER OCTOBER 7TH, ONLY ONE IN-PERSON MEETING WAS HELD DURING THIS TIMEFRAME AS IT WAS DIFFICULT FOR MANY BOARD MEMBERS FROM THE REGION TO TRAVEL. HOWEVER, USMEP PRESIDENT, DANIEL LEVY, CONTINUED TO BRIEF BOARD MEMBERS ON A ONE-ON-ONE BASIS THROUGHOUT THIS PERIOD. ON NOVEMBER 27, 2023, THE USMEP ORGANIZED AN IN-PERSON CONVENING IN WASHINGTON D.C. WITH USMEP BOARD MEMBERS AND SENIOR ADVISORS PARTICIPANTS INCLUDED USMEP BOARD MEMBERS AND SENIOR ADVISORS AS WELL AS OTHER RELEVANT STAKEHOLDERS INCLUDING BY LEADING GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS AND MIDDLE EAST EXPERTS FROM VARIOUS INSTITUTIONS IN THE U.S. AND BEYOND. ATTENDEES INCLUDED: HANAN ASHRAWI, FORMER MEMBER, P.L.O. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE (ATTENDED VIRTUALLY) SETH ANZISKA, USMEP VISITING FELLOW; MOHAMED S. FARSI-POLONSKY LECTURER IN JEWISH-MUSLIM RELATIONS AT UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON SAWSAN ASFARI, USMEP BOARD MEMBER; CO-FOUNDER AND TRUSTEE, ASFARI FOUNDATION; EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, GALILEE FOUNDATION (ATTENDED VIRTUALLY) EFRAIM HALEVY, CHAIRMAN, ISRAEL NATIONAL CENTER FOR JEWISH HISTORY MUSTAFA HAMARNEH, PRESIDENT, ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COUNCIL OF JORDAN JERRY HIRSCH, FOUNDER AND CHAIRMAN OF THE LODESTAR FOUNDATION DANIEL LEVY, PRESIDENT OF THE U.S./MIDDLE EAST PROJECT FRANK LOWENSTEIN, FORMER U.S. SPECIAL ENVOY FOR MIDDLE EAST PEACE ANNE PATTERSON, FORMER ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR THE MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA THOMAS R. PICKERING, SENIOR COUNSELOR, ALBRIGHT STONEBRIDGE GROUP MARK SEDWILL, FORMER UK NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISOR HENRY SIEGMAN, PRESIDENT EMERITUS, U.S. /MIDDLE EAST PROJECT (ATTENDED VIRTUALLY) THE PURPOSE OF SUCH MEETINGS IS TO REVIEW U.S.- MIDDLE EAST POLICY AND THAT OF OTHER ACTORS AND OPTIONS FOR MITIGATING OR ADVANCING RESOLUTIONS OF CRISES AND CONFLICTS IN EACH OF THE MAJOR AREAS OF INTEREST IN THE REGION, NOTABLY WORKING TO RESOLVE THE ISRAELI/PALESTINIAN CONFLICT, AS WELL AS ISSUES RELATED TO AFGHANISTAN, YEMEN, IRAN, IRAQ, SYRIA, LEBANON, THE GULF AND EGYPT. AT THIS MEETING, THE DISCUSSION POINTS WERE FOCUSED PRIMARILY ON EVENTS SINCE OCTOBER 7TH AND INCLUDED SOME OF THE FOLLOWING HEADLINES: HOW TO BRING THE WAR IN GAZA TO AN END. CURRENT DYNAMICS AROUND A CEASEFIRE. BEYOND GAZA-WHAT'S GOING ON IN THE WEST BANK AND EAST JERUSALEM. ASSESSING THE ISRAELI POLITICAL SCENE AND ITS SHIFTING DYNAMICS. HOW THE CRISIS IS IMPACTING THE PALESTINIAN POLITICAL SCENE AND WHAT MIGHT COME NEXT? U.S. POLITICAL, CONGRESSIONAL AND PUBLIC DYNAMICS AROUND THE GAZA CRISIS. REGIONAL ACTORS AND POSSIBLE NEW APPROACHES. THE BUILDING BLOCKS FOR A FUTURE WAY FORWARD ON ISRAEL/PALESTINE. ISRAEL/PALESTINE AS A GLOBAL CRISIS-RETHINKING THE INTERNATIONAL ROLE.

  Expenses $276,862

• CO-HOSTED WORKSHOP WITH THE DOHA FORUM THE USMEP CO-HOSTED A TWO-DAY PRIVATE WORKSHOP PROGRAM IN COLLABORATION WITH THE MIDDLE EAST COUNCIL ON GLOBAL AFFAIRS IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWING THE DOHA FORUM ON DECEMBER 11&12, 2023. THE WORKSHOP BROUGHT TOGETHER POLICYMAKERS, PRACTITIONERS AND EXPERTS TO EXPLORE NEW INITIATIVES ON ISRAEL-PALESTINE. DURING THE DOHA FORUM ITSELF, THE USMEP CO-HOSTED A PLENARY PANEL AT THE MAIN FORUM ENTITLED "PALESTINE HAS BECOME A GLOBAL CRISIS; DOES IT HAVE A GLOBAL SOLUTION?" USMEP PRESIDENT, DANIEL LEVY, SPOKE AT THAT PANEL WHICH CAN BE VIEWED HERE: HTTPS://WWW.YOUTUBE.COM/WATCH?V=THOTLGZ_ND4 FUTURES PROJECT THE FUTURES PROJECT WHICH COMMENCED IN 2018 WITH A ROUND OF WORKSHOPS CONVENED BY THE USMEP AT STOKE PARK IN BUCKINGHAMSHIRE, ENTITLED "MOVING BEYOND EXISTING PARADIGMS ON ISRAEL/PALESTINE," HAS CONTINUED ITS WORK. THE USMEP SERVES IN AN OVERSIGHT, COORDINATING AND GUIDING CAPACITY FOR THE OVERALL PROJECT. THE PROJECT WHICH FOCUSES ON RESHAPING THE POLICY AND STRATEGY FRAMEWORKS THROUGH WHICH THE ISRAELI/PALESTINIAN ISSUE IS THOUGHT WAS ESPECIALLY FOCUSED ON THE IMPACT OF THE CONSTANTLY CHANGING LANDSCAPE IN THE REGION SINCE OCTOBER 7TH. THIS WAS REFLECTED IN SOME OF THE DISCUSSIONS THAT TOOK PLACE AT THE IN-PERSON MEETING THAT TOOK PLACE IN MADRID, SPAIN DURING JANUARY 21-23, 2024. PARTICIPANTS INCLUDED MEMBERS FROM THE REGION AND BEYOND. AS WITH PREVIOUS MEETINGS, THERE WAS NO STRUCTURED AGENDA, BUT RATHER A LESS PRESCRIPTIVE AND MORE FLUID OUTLINE. INSTEAD OF FORMAL PRESENTATIONS, THE FLUID AGENDA FACILITATED DISCUSSIONS WITHIN THE GROUP ENABLING MEMBERS TO BE ENGAGED AND TO GRAPPLE WITH IDEAS THAT EMERGED OVER THE COURSE OF THE 2-DAY MEETING. THE FLUID AGENDA INCLUDED THE FOLLOWING SUBJECTS: - WHAT IS GOING ON AND HOW DID THE PRESENT EMERGE IN THIS WAY AND WHERE IS IT HEADING INTO THE FUTURE? - ASSESSMENT OF THE PALESTINIAN POLITICAL LANDSCAPE/STATE OF PLAY/KEY DEVELOPMENTS. - ASSESSMENT OF THE ISRAELI POLITICAL LANDSCAPE/STATE OF PLAY/KEY DEVELOPMENTS. - THE REGIONAL POLITICAL LANDSCAPE AFTER OCTOBER 7TH: KEY FAULT-LINES; BALANCE OF FORCES; STATE OF NORMALIZATION. - HOW GLOBAL GEOPOLITICAL DYNAMICS AND FAULT-LINES ARE PLAYING OUT ON PALESTINE/ISRAEL; THE SIGNIFICANCE OF SHIFTS; NORTH-SOUTH DIVIDE; HOW TO WORK IN THESE SPACES.

  Expenses $233,542

• Withheld by Nonprofiteer: this text may name a private individual.

  Expenses $233,542

As filed on the 2023 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here. A text marked withheld matched a screen for wording that may name a private individual, such as an honorific or "in memory of". Most of what it withholds names no one; it is withheld so that what does is never shown.

Listed in Part VII

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

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

No itemized grants to organizations on this return.

Provenance

Return type

form_990

Tax year

2023

Filed

9 May 2025

IRS schema version

2023v6.0

Source object

202531329349301443

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