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COUNCIL OF AMERICAN OVERSEAS RESEARCH CENTERS

EIN 52-1395971 WASHINGTON, DC

Largest nonprofits in District of Columbia

Revenue 2024
$7,802,922
Expenses 2024
$7,774,502

Program services were 97.8% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
Q230
Classification
1200
Street
PO BOX 37012

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).

Other organizations at this address

5 other organizations in the IRS Business Master File list the same street address. matched by us

We match the street line and ZIP code as the IRS gives them, ignoring case and outer spaces and nothing else, so "AVE" and "AVENUE" count as different streets and this list can miss some. A shared address can mean related organizations or a shared office, but it can also be a registered agent, a mail drop or a service provider holding mail for unrelated clients. It is not, by itself, evidence that two organizations are connected.

Mission and programs · 2024

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.

  • 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 $6,915,401 · Grants $6,112,747

  • 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 $539,769 · Grants $507,298 · Revenue $425,000

  • International Academic Development: Coordinates the presentation of contemporary American art at the Dakar Biennale to celebrate shared and ongoing cultural connections between the United States and Africa.

    Expenses $150,000 · Grants $150,000

As filed on the 2024 return.

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.

  • Heidi Wiederkehr

    Executive Director

    Total calculated
    $218,404
    From this org
    $206,591
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $11,813
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $206,591
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    $10,702
    Nontaxable benefits
    $1,111
    Filer's total
    $218,404

  • J Mark Kenoyer

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Ismael Montana

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Milan Shrestra

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Katharyn Hanson

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Thomas Barfield

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Octaviana Trujillo

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Matt Cook

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Pearce Paul Creasman

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Robert Hefner

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Kathryn Grossman

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Paula DePriest

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Donald Kane

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Mark Lawall

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Hegnar Watenpaugh

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • James Miller

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Penelope Mitchell

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Melinda Hartwig

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Sumathi Ramaswamy

    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

  • 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

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
    $7,802,922
    Expenses
    $7,774,502
    Contributions
    $7,129,480
    Grants paid
    $6,808,878
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $6,470,375
    Expenses
    $6,342,969
    Contributions
    $5,968,757
    Grants paid
    $4,691,717
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $5,967,934
    Expenses
    $6,577,596
    Contributions
    $5,674,675
    Grants paid
    $5,047,500

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
    $5,844,672
    Expenses
    $5,775,205
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,977,316

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,108,746
    Expenses
    $4,069,436
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,976,736

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,326,391
    Expenses
    $4,409,839
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,966,493

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $5,893,195
    Expenses
    $4,826,071
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,038,954

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

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

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

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 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.