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Institute for Study Abroad Inc

Ifsa provides culturally rich study abroad programs designed to help students foster critical perspectives, knowledge, and skills.

$1.5M
Granted FY2020
14
Grants FY2020
10
States reached
$78k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2020.

Education$1.7M
02FY2020 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 14 grants below total $516,615 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,466,546 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $949,931 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2020

  • Under $10k2 grants · $11k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $307k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $198k
$40,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$25M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COLGATE UNIVERSITY$77,750
BUTLER UNIVERSITY$69,650
WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY$51,000
VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY$47,250
FRANKLIN & MARSHALL COLLEGE$44,250
CONNECTICUT COLLEGE$43,500
TULANE UNIVERSITY$40,000
GETTYSBURG COLLEGE$34,500
EMORY UNIVERSITY$31,000
SUSQUEHANNA UNIVERSITY$25,000
UNIVERSITY OF DENVER$22,015
BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY$19,700
URSINUS COLLEGE$6,000
BABSON COLLEGE$5,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

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

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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–20) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 64% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%University of Minnesota at Twin Cities: $7k → 11%URSINUS COLLEGE: $13k → 7%GETTYSBURG COLLEGE: $35k → 9%FRANKLIN & MARSHALL COLLEGE: $44k → 9%SUSQUEHANNA UNIVERSITY: $25k → 10%SAINT JOSEPH'S UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $39k → 22%UNIVERSITY OF REDLANDS: $15k → 14%COLGATE UNIVERSITY: $78k → 11%University of Tulsa: $9k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN AT MADISON: $14k → 10%CONNECTICUT COLLEGE: $46k → 9%TRINITY COLLEGE OF CONNECTICUT: $12k → 11%WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY: $51k → 15%EMORY UNIVERSITY: $49k → 14%BUTLER UNIVERSITY: $70k → 16%TULANE UNIVERSITY: $40k → 23%URSINUS COLLEGE: $11k → 7%GETTYSBURG COLLEGE: $17k → 9%FRANKLIN & MARSHALL COLLEGE: $35k → 9%SUSQUEHANNA UNIVERSITY: $8k → 10%SAINT JOSEPH'S UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $11k → 22%UNIVERSITY OF REDLANDS: $14k → 14%COLGATE UNIVERSITY: $73k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN AT MADISON: $9k → 10%CONNECTICUT COLLEGE: $44k → 9%TRINITY COLLEGE OF CONNECTICUT: $10k → 11%WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY: $40k → 15%EMORY UNIVERSITY: $49k → 14%BUTLER UNIVERSITY: $33k → 16%TULANE UNIVERSITY: $16k → 23%URSINUS COLLEGE: $7k → 7%GETTYSBURG COLLEGE: $9k → 9%FRANKLIN & MARSHALL COLLEGE: $29k → 9%SUSQUEHANNA UNIVERSITY: $8k → 10%COLGATE UNIVERSITY: $71k → 11%CONNECTICUT COLLEGE: $38k → 9%Trinity College of Connecticut: $10k → 11%Wake Forest University: $25k → 15%EMORY UNIVERSITY: $31k → 14%BUTLER UNIVERSITY: $23k → 16%Tulane University: $6k → 23%URSINUS COLLEGE: $6k → 7%FRANKLIN & MARSHALL COLLEGE: $25k → 9%Colgate University: $50k → 11%Connecticut College: $31k → 9%WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY: $25k → 15%EMORY UNIVERSITY: $26k → 14%BUTLER UNIVERSITY: $8k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

MN
IL
WI
NY
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IN
PA
CT
CA
CO
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NC
DC
OK
LA
GA

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.6M · 17 repeat orgs$33k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +23% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.

17 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2020, 5 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
4

Total granted

$1.6M
$28k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
+11%

Still filing today

88%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2020, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20
RenewedFirst-time

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • Vanderbilt University
    4× · 2017–2020 · $242k · revenue +74%
  • CC
    CONNECTICUT COLLEGE
    4× · 2017–2020 · $158k · revenue +23%
  • EU
    Emory University
    4× · 2017–2020 · $154k · revenue +80%

Funded once

  • The University of Tulsa
    one grant, 2017 · $9k · revenue +8%
  • SU
    SUSQUEHANNA UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2017 · $8k
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA
    one grant, 2017 · $7k

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

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

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Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
2
Western New England University

Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…

Education
3
Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education
4
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
5
Endicott College

Endicott college offers students a vibrant academic environment that remains true to its founding principle of integrating professional and liberal arts with experiential learning. for more information see schedule o.

Education
6
Trustees of Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.

Education
7
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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8
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
9
President and Trustees of Bates College

Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…

Education
10
Dickinson College

Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship

Education
11
Lewis & Clark College

Lewis & clark is a premier private higher education institution offering an exceptional education in an inclusive environment. by fostering critical thinking, innovation, creativity, civic engagement, and leadership, both inside and…

Education
12
Roger Williams University

At Roger Williams University, students are prepared to be thinkers and doers ready to solve challenging problems with innovative solutions. RWU offers robust offerings of undergraduate, graduate and professional programs across eight…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Gettysburg College and the most unlike its peers is Wake Forest University. 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

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

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 19 of the 23 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/19
Grantees still filing
16/19
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE COLGATE UNIVERSITY ALUMNI CORPORATION — $271,750 · EducationTHE COLGATE UNIVERSITY ALUMNI CORPORATIONVanderbilt University — $241,750 · EducationVanderbilt UniversityCONNECTICUT COLLEGE — $157,800 · EducationCONNECTICUT COLLEGEEmory University — $154,000 · EducationEmory UniversityWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY — $140,000 · EducationWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITYButler University — $133,700 · EducationButler UniversityFRANKLIN & MARSHALL COLLEGE — $132,750 · EducationFRANKLIN & MARSHALL COLLEGEBRANDEIS UNIVERSITY — $73,450 · EducationGETTYSBURG COLLEGE — $66,000 · EducationTHE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND — $62,000 · Education+9 more — $210,235 · Education+9 moreMETROPOLITAN STATE UNIVERSITY OF DENVER — $54,720 · OtherUniversity of Wisconsin Madison — $23,250 · OtherSUSQUEHANNA UNIVERSITY — $8,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA — $6,500 · Other
Education$1,643,435Other$92,470

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE COLGATE UNIVERSITY ALUMNI CORPORATION — $271,750 over 4y, 67% of budgetVanderbilt University — $241,750 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCONNECTICUT COLLEGE — $157,800 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetEmory University — $154,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY — $140,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetButler University — $133,700 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFRANKLIN & MARSHALL COLLEGE — $132,750 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBRANDEIS UNIVERSITY — $73,450 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGETTYSBURG COLLEGE — $66,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND — $62,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSAINT JOSEPH'S UNIVERSITY — $50,345 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetURSINUS COLLEGE — $37,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSUSQUEHANNA UNIVERSITY — $33,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTRINITY COLLEGE — $31,600 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF REDLANDS — $29,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN UNIVERSITY — $10,290 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe University of Tulsa — $8,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNorth Central College — $5,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBABSON COLLEGE — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

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

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Institute for Study Abroad Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2025
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no gov · 00%5%19%42%75%your share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Brandeis University — 8% of income from government
  • The University of Tulsa — 2% of income from government
  • Babson College — 0% of income from government
  • Connecticut College — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 23 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $1.3M 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 FY2020, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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