If Americans Knew

If Americans Knew is a left-of-center organization that is critical of American foreign policy and specifically the U.S. alliance with Israel. It holds that the American public is deeply uninformed about the actions of Israel and that if they were to be given accurate information about the situation, they would demand that the U.S. government withdraw its support for Israel’s government.

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At-A-Glance

Type: Non-profit, 501(c)(3)
Issue Areas: Foreign Policy
Website: ifamericansknew.org
Founder:

Alison Weir

Location: Citrus Hts, CA View on map
Tax ID: 26-0224844
Most Recent Filing: 2025
Budget (2025): Assets: $447,184 Revenue: $493,077 Expenses: $573,803

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    Background

    If Americans Knew claims that Americans are uninformed about what their country is doing on an international scale, and that they are kept in the dark by lack of access to information that is “undistorted by conscious or unconscious bias.” Such distortions of the truth are caused by “lies of either commission or omission, or by pressures exerted by powerful special interest groups.” 1

    Israel

    If Americans Knew has one singular issue area, namely criticizing American funding of the state of Israel. It claims this information and the strong American connection to Israel are withheld from American newspapers and media. It calls this “a cover-up of appalling proportions” and alleges that the “American public is being manipulated.” 1

    The group claims that Israel is breaking international law and international conventions, and carrying out policies of brutality condemned by numerous nongovernmental organizations through the funding given to it by the United States. It claims that Israel, with American money and weapons, is “imposing an ethnically discriminatory nation on land that was previously multicultural” and it is supremacist state with “ethnic and religion discrimination inherent in its national identity.” 1

    Funding

    In 2019, If Americans Knew had a revenue of $329,736, expenses of $364,563, and net assets of $145,030. 2

    If Americans Knew has received funding from Caw Foundation, Do Right Foundation, the Judes Foundation, Hope and Justice Educational Foundation, Kanaan Family Foundation, Tarbell Family Foundation, Parsekian Foundation, and the Nakadar Foundation. 3

    In 2019 If Americans Knew gave a $7,200 grant to International Middle East Media Center (IMEMC) News, a news outlet that is incorporated as an entity in the United States. 4

    Leadership

    If Americans Knew was founded by journalist Alison Weir, who came to her political views after traveling through the Palestinian territories of the West Bank and Gaza Strip in 2001. 5

    Two founding board members of If Americans Knew were Rep. Paul Findley (D-IL), a staunch critic of Israel, and career foreign service officer and former U.S. Ambassador to Qatar Andrew I. Killgore. 5

    Financial Statistics

    Total Assets

    Total Revenue

    Total Expenses

    YearTotal AssetsTotal RevenueTotal ExpensesFiling
    2025 $447,184 $493,077 $573,803 View
    2024 $502,923 $532,740 $643,799 View
    2023 $547,886 $331,563 $674,626 View
    2022 $863,485 $1,190,783 $371,475 View
    2021 $76,939 $355,103 $439,612 View
    2020 $148,976 $329,736 $364,563

    Prior year filings: 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010

    Revenue Detail

    Expenses Detail

    Employee Compensation

    • Number of Employees: 1

    Grant Activity

    All-time grants received statistics from Candid dataset:

    • Total Grant Value: $456,186
    • Number of Grants: 53
    • Number of Funders: 11

    Selection of highest value grants received from the last seven years:

    AmountYearFunderSubject
    $83,4502022 Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift FundFor grant recipient's exempt purposes
    $59,9502023 Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift FundFor grant recipient's exempt purposes
    $10,0002024 Anne S Woolslayer FoundationFunds for ongoing operations
    $7,6852023 Anne S Woolslayer FoundationFunds for ongoing operations
    $4,0002024 Alalusi FoundationHUMANITARIAN AND CHARITABLE ASSITANCE
    $2,0002023 Do Right FoundationUNRESTRICTED GRANTTO SUPPORT
    $2,0002022 Do Right FoundationUNRESTRICTED GRANT TO SUPPORT
    $2,0002022 Tarbell Family FoundationGeneral & Unrestricted
    $2,0002021 Tarbell Family FoundationGeneral & Unrestricted
    $1,5002023 The Roger and Kathy Marino FoundationGENERAL PURPOSES
    $1,0002023 Alalusi FoundationHUMANITARIAN AND CHARITABLE ASSITANCE
    $1,0002023 Tarbell Family FoundationGeneral & Unrestricted
    $5202022 Amazonsmile FoundationGENERAL SUPPORT

    All-time grants given statistics from Candid dataset:

    • Total Grant Value: $34
    • Number of Grants: 2
    • Number of Recipients: 2

    Selection of highest value grants given from the last seven years:

    AmountYearFunderSubject
    $222024 Ithaka Harbors IncEDUCATION
    $122024 Braver AngelsHelp to depolarize America

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    References

    1. “Mission Statement.” If Americans Knew. Accessed May 7, 2023. https://ifamericansknew.org/about_us/.
    2. Return of Organization Exempt from Income Tax (Form 990). If Americans Knew. 2019. Part I, lines 12, 18, 22.
    3. “Full-Text Search – If Americans Knew.” ProPublica. Accessed May 7, 2023. https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/full_text_search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=if+americans+knew.
    4. Return of Organization Exempt from Income Tax (Form 990). If Americans Knew. 2019. Schedule I, Part II – Grants and Other Assistance to Domestic Organizations and Domestic Governments.
    5. “Who We Are.” If Americans Knew. Accessed May 7, 2023. https://ifamericansknew.org/about_us/whoweare.html.