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American Councils for International Education Actr Accels Inc

American Councils for International Education is a leader in international education, academic exchange, and overseas language immersion.

$465k
Granted FY2024still arriving
3
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$23k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$486kInternational$243kScience & Tech$16k
02FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 3 grants below total $51,235, the rows itemized in this filing. The $465,434 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $414,199 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$14,986
Median grant
3
States reached
$60M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS$23,450
UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO$14,986
MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY$12,799
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 91% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE: $38k → 10%WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INST: $30k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA OMAHA: $33k → 12%UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN: $52k → 13%LEHIGH UNIVERSITY: $35k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $41k → 11%PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY: $28k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS: $31k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO: $15k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS: $23k → 14%MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY: $47k → 16%KETTERING UNIVERSITY: $24k → 16%KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY: $32k → 20%WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY-STLOUIS: $19k → 11%TRUSTEES OF INDIANA UNIVERSITY: $32k → 18%PURDUE UNIVERSITY: $18k → 19%OHIO UNIVERSITY: $18k → 22%WORLD CHICAGO: $13k → 14%STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW JERSEY: $30k → 6%UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE: $32k → 10%WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE: $16k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA: $13k → 12%UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $16k → 11%MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY: $13k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
IL
MI
MA
IA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
NE
MO
VA
DE
NM
KS
AR
TX

Grants abroad, by region: $394k on the FY2025 return

Schedule F, as filed: 1 region, all to individuals. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

Russia and Neighboring States$394k · 100% · 219 people

Stated purpose: SMALL GRANTS

How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

31%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$233k · 4 repeat orgs$513k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +22% since the first grant, against +18% for those funded once.

4 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
16

Total granted

$233k
$474k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
+18%

Still filing today

75%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 25% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $38k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’21’22’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’21’22’24
EducationInternationalOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE
    3× · 2021–2023 · $70k · revenue +22%
  • UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH
    2× · 2021–2022 · $57k · revenue +11%
  • WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE
    3× · 2017–2023 · $47k · revenue +63%

Funded once

  • BO
    BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA
    2× · 2022–2023 · $86k
  • IS
    IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2021 · $40k
  • LU
    LEHIGH UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2022–2023 · $35k · revenue +18%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
The George Washington University

The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…

Education
2
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
3
Trustees of Tufts College

Education and Research

Education
4
Widener University

Empowering our community of learners to discover and create better futures.

Education
5
Delaware Valley University

See schedule o.we are inspired by the ideals of our founder who, in 1896, emphasized respect for all people and ideas, who honored knowledge with practice, progress and the common good. our historical commitment to experiential learning…

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6
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
7
University of Virginia Investment Management Company

The university of virginia investment management company (uvimco) is organized to invest funds on behalf of the rector and visitors of the university of virginia (the university or uva) and university-associated organizations (uaos).

Education
8
Vanderbilt University

See Disclosure Above.

Education
9
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
10
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
11
Delaware State University

Delaware state university is a public, comprehensive, 1890 land-grant institution that offers access and opportunity to diverse populations from delaware, the nation, and the world. (continued on schedule o.)building on its heritage as a…

Education
12
DePauw University

Depauw university develops leaders the world needs through an uncommon commitment to the liberal arts. depauw's diverse and inclusive learning and living experience, distinctive in its rigorous intellectual engagement and its global and…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Delaware; the most unlike its peers is International Visitors Center of Chicago. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

11 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 22 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
9/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA: $85,805 · OtherBOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKAUNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE: $70,395 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF DELAWAREMICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY: $59,694 · OtherMICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITYWORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE: $46,619 · OtherWORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTEIOWA STATE UNIVERSITY: $40,000 · OtherIOWA STATE UNIVERSITYIndiana University School of Medicine: $31,998 · OtherIndiana University School of MedicineUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA: $31,998 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTAKANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY: $31,744 · OtherKANSAS STATE UNIVERSITYUNT HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER: $31,480 · OtherUNT HEALTH SCIENCE CENTERRUTGERS THE STATE UNIVERSITY: $30,250 · OtherRUTGERS THE STATE UNIVERSITYPENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY: $27,656 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FAYETTEVILLE: $23,450 · Other+2 more: $32,586 · Other+2 moreUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $56,541 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGHLEHIGH UNIVERSITY: $34,900 · EducationLEHIGH UNIVERSITYKettering University: $23,700 · EducationKettering UniversityOLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $23,570 · EducationOLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY RESE…WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $19,200 · EducationWASHINGTON UNIVERSITYThe Ohio University Foundation: $17,874 · EducationThe Ohio University Foundati…UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA AT OMAHA ALUMNI: $13,168 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA AT OM…International Visitors Center of Chicago: $13,300 · International
Other$543,675Education$188,953International$13,300

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE: $70,395 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $56,541 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE: $46,619 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLEHIGH UNIVERSITY: $34,900 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKettering University: $23,700 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $23,570 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $19,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Ohio University Foundation: $17,874 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Visitors Center of Chicago: $13,300 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA AT OMAHA ALUMNI: $13,168 over 1y, 0.4% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH ↗
  • Who funds WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds LEHIGH UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Kettering University ↗
  • Who funds OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds The Ohio University Foundation ↗
  • Who funds International Visitors Center of Chicago ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA AT OMAHA ALUMNI ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization American Councils for International Education Actr Accels Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from American Councils for International Education Actr Accels Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 25%
  • University of Delaware: 25% of income from government
  • Worcester Polytechnic Institute: 6% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 22 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $591k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2024, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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