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IDEAS BEYOND BORDERS INC

EIN 82-1447974 NEW YORK, NY

Revenue 2024
$941,018
Expenses 2024
$3,745,004

Program services were 78.5% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
Q70
Classification
1000
Street
244 FIFTH AVENUE SUITE 2594

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

Mission

IDEAS BEYOND BORDERS IS A NONPROFIT WITH SPECIAL CONSULTATIVE STATUS TO THE UNITED NATIONS. WE ARE COMMITTED TO UPHOLDING CRITICAL THINKING, SCIENCE AND CIVIL RIGHTS IN THE GREATER MIDDLE EAST REGION.

Activities or mission (Part I)

Ideas Beyond Borders is a global network of more than 250 translators and changemakers who empower people with good ideas to generate positive impact in their societies.

  • TRANSLATION AND DISTRIBUTION OF NON-FICTION WORK(BOOKS, ARTICLES, WEBSITES) ON SCIENCE, REASON, PHILOSOPHY FROM ENGLISH TO ARABIC WITH FREE DISTRIBUTION IN ARABIC SPEAKING REGIONS. THE PURPOSE IS TO COMBAT ILLIBERALISM AND TO GENERATE AWARENESS OF AND ENTHUSIASM FOR SCIENCE, CRITICAL THINKING AND KNOWLEDGE OF HUMAN RIGHTS IN THE FACE OF INTOLERANCE, XENOPHOBIA AND EXTREMISM ALL FORCES THAT ALIGN WITH ILLIBERALISM. THE ORGANIZATION HAS AN ADVISORY BOARD TO RECOMMEND THE MOST APPROPRIATE WORKS. TRANSLATION OF WIKIPEDIA CONTENT FROM ENGLISH TO ARABIC FOCUSING ON CIVIL, HUMAN AND WOMEN'S RIGHTS, POLITICAL SCIENCE, NATURAL SCIENCES, EVOLUTION, DEMOCRATIC THEORY AND RATIONALISM. THE GOAL IS TO ADDRESS THE RELATIVE PAUCITY OF THIS TYPE OF INFORMATION ON THE ARABIC LANGUAGE VERSION OF WIKIPEDIA. TRANSLATIONS ARE CREATED BY PAID AD VOLUNTEER TRANLATORS IN THE REGION. CREATION AND DISTRIBUTION OF ORIGINAL PODCASTS AND VIDEO CONTENT THAT PROMOTE THE WORK OF THINKERS AND INTELLECTUALS IN THE MENA REGION WHO EXEMPLIFY THE VALUES OF SECULAR DEMOCRACY LIBERAL THOUGHT AND FACT BASED SCIENCE. THE PROGRAM ALSO PRODUCES ORIGINAL CONTENT ON IMPORTANT TOPICS IMPACTING THE REGION THAT COUNTERBALANCES THE EXTENSIVE MIS-INFORMATION ON ISSUES SUCH AS HISTORY, WOMEN'S AND LGBT RIGHTS AND SIMILAR ISSUES.

    Expenses $2,938,857 · Grants $796,855

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

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.

  • FAISAL AL Mutar

    President

    Total calculated
    $259,425
    From this org
    $250,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $9,425
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $250,000
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $9,425
    Filer's total
    $259,425

  • Mariana Benertize Sarria

    Director of Communications

    Total calculated
    $125,977
    From this org
    $116,628
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $9,349
    Hours/week
    40

  • Sam Hershey

    Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Melissa Chen

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Dan Johnson

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Dr Steven Pinker

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Brady Forrest

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Nick Gillespie

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Gerry Ohstrum

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

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
    $941,018
    Expenses
    $3,745,004
    Contributions
    $758,592
    Grants paid
    $796,855
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $7,686,886
    Expenses
    $4,477,838
    Contributions
    $7,583,359
    Grants paid
    $1,541,766
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $4,028,274
    Expenses
    $3,491,541
    Contributions
    $4,017,335
    Grants paid
    $910,077

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

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,786,663
    Expenses
    $1,849,828
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,838,999

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,770,133
    Expenses
    $1,426,617
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,980,407

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,636,857
    Expenses
    $1,233,023
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,280,808

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,015,917
    Expenses
    $794,141
    Assets (EOY)
    $891,873

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.

Grants made

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Grants received

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

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 26 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.