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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
Itemized grants FY2020
13
Organizations funded FY2020
8%
First-time grantees FY2020
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Itemized, FY2020
$517k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2020
$40,000
Largest grant, FY2020
$77,750
Organizations funded a year
13 to 19
FY2017 to FY2020
States reached, FY2020
10
Total assets, FY2020
$25M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2020, 8% of the organizations Institute for Study Abroad Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

50%100%’18’19’20
RenewedFirst-time
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY202013$497k8%
FY201913$403k15%
FY201816$372k0%
FY201719$391kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$1.7M

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

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

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2020, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Colgate University Alumni Corporation$271,750467%
Vanderbilt University$241,75040%
Connecticut College$157,80040%
Emory University$154,00040%
Wake Forest University$140,00040%
Butler University$133,70040%
Franklin & Marshall College$132,75040%
Gettysburg College$66,00040%
The Administrators of the Tulane Educational Fund$62,00030%
Metropolitan State University of Denver$54,7204n/a
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All grantees of Institute for Study Abroad Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Colgate University Alumni Corporation$271,750467%
Vanderbilt University$241,75040%
Connecticut College$157,80040%
Emory University$154,00040%
Wake Forest University$140,00040%
Butler University$133,70040%
Franklin & Marshall College$132,75040%
Gettysburg College$66,00040%
The Administrators of the Tulane Educational Fund$62,00030%
Metropolitan State University of Denver$54,7204n/a
Saint Joseph's University$50,34520%
Ursinus College$37,00040%
Susquehanna University$33,00020%
Trinity College$31,60030%
University of Redlands$29,25020%
University of Wisconsin Madison$23,2502n/a
American University$10,29020%
The University of Tulsa$8,50010%
Susquehanna University$8,0001n/a
University of Minnesota$6,5001n/a
North Central College$5,25010%
Babson College$5,00010%

Where it is load-bearing

Institute for Study Abroad Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 18 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 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

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 18.

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About Institute for Study Abroad Inc

How much does Institute for Study Abroad Inc give?
Institute for Study Abroad Inc reported 14 itemized grants totaling $516,615, out of $1,466,546 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2020 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 19 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2020.
What does Institute for Study Abroad Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2020, its largest causes are Education (100%).
Who are Institute for Study Abroad Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2020: The Colgate University Alumni Corporation ($272k), Vanderbilt University ($242k), Connecticut College ($158k).
Does Institute for Study Abroad Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2020, 8% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Where is Institute for Study Abroad Inc based?
Institute for Study Abroad Inc is based in IN.

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 23 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 2020, released 2020. 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 $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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