Finances
editMEMRI is registered in the U.S. as a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization and is financed by donations.[1][2] In August 2011, the United States Department of State's Office of International Religious Freedom in the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor awarded MEMRI a $200,000 grant for its work documenting and translating anti-Semitism and Holocaust denial in the Middle East.[3]
MEMRI's U.S. income statement of June 2016 stated that its total U.S. revenue was US$5,671,154, its total US functional expenses were $5,576,349, and that it possessed net assets of $1,088,873. When scored on both financial health and accountability and transparency, Charity Navigator, an independent charity watchdog organization, gave MEMRI a three-star rating.[4]
References
edit- ^ Greer Fay Cashman (16 April 2009). "Impacting the collective global MEMRI". The Jerusalem Post.
MEMRI exists entirely on private donations.
{{cite news}}:|access-date=requires|url=(help) - ^ Sean Salai (20 June 2002). "Arabic news bared; Translations unnerving". The Washington Times.
Mr. Stalinsky says, with a practiced emphasis, that MEMRI is not the tool of any government entity. "We're completely independent, 501[c]3, nonprofit, and nonpartisan," he says.
{{cite news}}:|access-date=requires|url=(help) - ^ Ruth Ellen Gruber (15 August 2011). "State Dept. gives $200,000 grants to MEMRI, Centropa". Jewish Telegraphic Agency. Retrieved 25 October 2016.
The U.S. State Department awarded $200,000 grants each to the Middle East Media Research Institute, or MEMRI, and the Central Europe Center for Research and Documentation, known as Centropa;The grants, from the State Department's Office of International Religious Freedom in the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor, were announced last week.;MEMRI, a Washington-based group that translates and researches anti-Semitic trends in the Middle East and South Asia, was awarded the grant to document and translate anti-Semitism and Holocaust denial in the Middle East.