MERIDIAN INTERNATIONAL CENTER

As filed

Subsection

03

NTEE code

Q210

Classification

1200

Street

1630 CRESCENT PL NW

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2024

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

  Expenses $19,623,184 · Grants $159,238

• CENTER FOR GLOBAL LEADERSHIP - CUSTOMIZED EXCHANGESBEYOND IVLP, MERIDIAN IMPLEMENTED 62 PROJECTS FOR 403 PARTICIPANTS FROM 104 COUNTRIES. THESE PARTNERSHIPS GIVE GLOBAL CHANGEMAKERS OPPORTUNITIES TO EXPAND COLLABORATIVE NETWORKS, DRIVE INNOVATION, AND CREATE LASTING IMPACT. 1) SCIENCE, INNOVATION & TECHNOLOGY: THROUGH INITIATIVES SUCH AS THE NEA SPACE EXCHANGE PROGRAM, MERIDIAN CONVENED EMERGING LEADERS, POLICYMAKERS, AND TECHNICAL EXPERTS FROM ACROSS THE NEAR EAST AND NORTH AFRICA TO STRENGTHEN COLLABORATION IN SPACE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, BUILD REGIONAL CAPACITY, AND EXPAND PARTNERSHIPS WITH U.S. INSTITUTIONS AND INDUSTRY. 2) YOUTH & LEADERSHIP: MERIDIAN'S THREE FLAGSHIP PROGRAMS IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE-THE STUDY OF THE U.S. INSTITUTES FOR GLOBAL STUDENT LEADERS, THE PAN AFRICA YOUTH LEADERSHIP PROGRAM, AND THE U.S. CONGRESS-REPUBLIC OF KOREA NATIONAL ASSEMBLY EXCHANGE-BROUGHT TOGETHER EMERGING LEADERS FROM THE UNITED STATES AND AROUND THE WORLD FOR IMMERSIVE EXCHANGES FOCUSED ON LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT AND MUTUAL UNDERSTANDING OF GOVERNANCE SYSTEMS AND CULTURES. THROUGH ACADEMIC RESIDENCIES, TRAVEL, SKILLS TRAINING, AND COLLABORATIVE PROJECTS, PARTICIPANTS BUILD LASTING RELATIONSHIPS AND RETURN HOME BETTER PREPARED TO STRENGTHEN INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION AND COMMUNITY IMPACT. 3) JOURNALISM & MEDIA: IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE STATE DEPARTMENT'S FOREIGN PRESS CENTER, MERIDIAN CONNECTED INTERNATIONAL JOURNALISTS WITH U.S. POLICYMAKERS, EXPERTS, AND INSTITUTIONS TO PROVIDE FIRSTHAND INSIGHT INTO AMERICAN POLICY, SOCIETY, AND INNOVATION.

  Expenses $6,787,322 · Grants $1,484,822 · Revenue $90,602

• CENTER FOR CULTURE AND SPORTS DIPLOMACYTHROUGH MUSIC DIPLOMACY EXCHANGES, VISUAL ART EXHIBITIONS, AND HIGH IMPACT CONVENINGS, MERIDIAN'S CENTER FOR CULTURE AND SPORTS DIPLOMACY BUILDS CONNECTIONS AMONG GLOBAL COMMUNITIES BY USING CULTURE AND SPORTS TO BRIDGE DIVIDES AND HIGHLIGHT SHARED VALUES. IN 2025, KEY PROGRAMS INCLUDE 1) THE ANNUAL FLAGSHIP CULTURAL DIPLOMACY CONVENING, CULTUREFIX, BROUGHT TOGETHER THE CULTURE AND SPORTS DIPLOMACY COMMUNITY THROUGH A DIALOGUE SERIES AND AWARDS CEREMONY CELEBRATING ACHIEVEMENT AND THOUGHT LEADERSHIP. THE 2025 HONOREES INCLUDED NFL COMMISSIONER ROGER GOODELL, PLAYWRIGHT AND ACTOR ANNA DEAVERE SMITH, AND VISUAL ARTIST SANFORD BIGGERS. 2) MERIDIAN PARTNERED WITH THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION AND THE U.S. CONSULATE IN CHENNAI, INDIA, TO MANAGE THE TRAVELING EXHIBITION CITY OF HOPE, WHICH HIGHLIGHTED CULTURAL AND PHILOSOPHICAL CONNECTIONS BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND INDIA. 3) MERIDIAN LED THE INTERNATIONAL HIP-HOP ARTIST RESIDENCY PROGRAM IN URUGUAY THROUGH NEXT LEVEL, A PARTNERSHIP WITH THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE'S BUREAU OF EDUCATIONAL AND CULTURAL AFFAIRS. 4) MERIDIAN MANAGED THE SMITHSONIAN NATIONAL MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN INDIAN EXCHANGE PROGRAM FOR VISITORS FROM PANAMA. PARTICIPANTS INCLUDED EIGHT GUNA TRIBAL LEADERS AND MEMBERS OF THE GUNA CULTURAL CONGRESS, WHO TRAVELED TO WASHINGTON, D.C., TO CONSULT WITH MUSEUM STAFF ON THE CARE AND IDENTIFICATION OF GUNA OBJECTS IN THE COLLECTION. DURING THE VISIT, THE DELEGATION ALSO SIGNED A MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING TO CONTINUE COLLABORATION WITH THE MUSEUM DIRECTOR. 5) MERIDIAN RECRUITED AND DEPLOYED CULTURAL PERFORMERS TO ENGAGE AUDIENCES AT THE USA PAVILION AT THE OSAKA WORLD EXPOSITION IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE. 6) MERIDIAN PARTNERED WITH CAF DEVELOPMENT BANK TO HOST AN EXHIBITION OF CONTEMPORARY LATIN AMERICAN ART IN MERIDIAN'S HISTORIC GALLERIES.

  Expenses $2,777,265 · Grants $30,908

• ALSO DURING 2025, MERIDIAN'S CENTER FOR DIPLOMATIC ENGAGEMENT HOSTED MORE THAN 70 DIALOGUES, WORKSHOPS, AND ROUNDTABLES, ENGAGING OVER 800 DIPLOMATS FROM 129 EMBASSIES, ALONG WITH LEADERS FROM GOVERNMENT, BUSINESS, AND CIVIL SOCIETY. TOPICS INCLUDED SECURITY ALLIANCES, EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES, AEROSPACE INNOVATION, AND FEDERALISM. THE FLAGSHIP MERIDIAN SUMMIT FOCUSED ON MAJOR GLOBAL CHALLENGES SUCH AS GREAT-POWER COMPETITION, CYBERSECURITY, AI, ENERGY RESILIENCE, AND ECONOMIC COOPERATION. THE NORTH CAPITAL MERIDIAN DIPLOMACY FORUM BROUGHT TOGETHER MORE THAN 200 LEADERS FROM BUSINESS, GOVERNMENT, AND CIVIL SOCIETY ACROSS THE UNITED STATES, MEXICO, AND CANADA TO EXPLORE TRILATERAL COOPERATION.DIPLOMACYRISE, MERIDIAN'S INITIATIVE TO DEVELOP THE NEXT GENERATION OF GLOBAL AFFAIRS PROFESSIONALS, OFFERS CAREER TRAINING, MENTORSHIP, AND FELLOWSHIP OPPORTUNITIES. IN 2025, THE MERIDIAN COX FOREIGN SERVICE FELLOWSHIP INTRODUCED 30 COLLEGE STUDENTS TO CAREERS IN DIPLOMACY THROUGH A WEEK-LONG IMMERSION IN WASHINGTON, D.C. IN ADDITION, A SEVEN-PART HYBRID DIPLOMATIC SKILLS COURSE TRAINED 15 EMERGING SCIENTISTS IN PUBLIC DIPLOMACY, CULTURAL COMPETENCE, PROTOCOL, AND NEGOTIATION.MERIDIAN'S CENTER FOR CORPORATE DIPLOMACY CONTINUED ITS FORUMS AND MINISTERIAL ROUNDTABLES, HOSTING 129 AMBASSADORS AND OTHER STAKEHOLDERS FOR STRATEGIC CONVERSATIONS CENTERED ON CRITICAL BILATERAL RELATIONSHIPS AND US FOREIGN AND ECONOMIC POLICY.

  Expenses $2,506,467 · Grants $35,502

As filed on the 2024 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.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

The first 25 listed. 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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

• 2024

  Revenue

  $43,737,717

  Expenses

  $38,924,449

  Contributions

  $42,493,943

  Grants paid

  $1,710,470

• 2023

  Revenue

  $47,627,854

  Expenses

  $43,311,664

  Contributions

  $42,493,166

  Grants paid

  $2,316,779

• 2022

  Revenue

  $50,332,903

  Expenses

  $49,195,159

  Contributions

  $49,029,561

  Grants paid

  $4,200,220

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

• 2024 · 990-T

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  — not reported

  Assets (EOY)

  — not reported

• 2023 · 990-T

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  — not reported

  Assets (EOY)

  — not reported

• 2022 · 990-T

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  — not reported

  Assets (EOY)

  — not reported

• 2021 · 990

  Revenue

  $35,974,267

  Expenses

  $35,327,136

  Assets (EOY)

  $24,363,247

• 2021 · 990-T

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  — not reported

  Assets (EOY)

  — not reported

• 2020 · 990

  Revenue

  $16,755,144

  Expenses

  $15,540,065

  Assets (EOY)

  $21,513,617

• 2020 · 990-T

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  — not reported

  Assets (EOY)

  — not reported

• 2019 · 990

  Revenue

  $25,888,564

  Expenses

  $25,075,452

  Assets (EOY)

  $19,576,599

• 2018 · 990

  Revenue

  $41,805,626

  Expenses

  $40,640,903

  Assets (EOY)

  $19,348,202

• 2017 · 990

  Revenue

  $36,633,291

  Expenses

  $36,362,325

  Assets (EOY)

  $19,201,736

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

• FOUNDATION FOR INTERNATIONAL UNDERSTANDING THROUGH STUDENTS

  $654,493

  2022 · PROGRAM SUPPORT

• FOUNDATION FOR INTERNATIONAL UNDERSTANDING THROUGH STUDENTS

  $567,918

  2023 · PROGRAM SUPPORT

• FOUNDATION FOR INTERNATIONAL UNDERSTANDING THROUGH STUDENTS

  $331,651

  2024 · PROGRAM SUPPORT

• UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST

  $324,252

  2022 · PROGRAM SUPPORT

• NORTHERN NEVADA INTERNATIONAL CENTER

  $274,414

  2022 · PROGRAM SUPPORT

• DIALOGUE INSTITUTE

  $229,210

  2022 · PROGRAM SUPPORT

• VERMONT COUNCIL ON WORLD AFFAIRS

  $228,839

  2022 · PROGRAM SUPPORT

• NORTHERN NEVADA INTERNATIONAL CENTER

  $216,358

  2024 · PROGRAM SUPPORT

• SHIPPENSBURG UNIVERSITY

  $211,026

  2023 · PROGRAM SUPPORT

• UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST

  $194,026

  2024 · PROGRAM SUPPORT

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

• GOLDMAN SACHS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $325,000

  2024 · COMMUNITY OUTREACH & ENRICHMENT PROGRAMS

• UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME DU LAC

  $160,000

  2024 · See Part IV

• MARIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

  $135,000

  2023 · PROVIDE GENERAL OPERATING SUPPORT

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $134,000

  2024 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• MARIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

  $100,000

  2022 · EXHIBITION AND GENERAL OPERATING SUPPORT

• AARP

  $75,000

  2022 · General support

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $73,000

  2022 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING

  $58,500

  2024 · INTERNATIONAL, FOREIGN AFFAIRS

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $56,200

  2023 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF DEMOCRATIC INSTITUTION

  $50,000

  2022 · General purpose

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Taxable family

From Schedule R Parts I, III and IV: entities that legally are the filer, and taxable partnerships, corporations and trusts it is related to. These record ownership and control, not shared board members or money.

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