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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 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 2020.

Education$1.7M
02FY2020 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 14 grants below total $516,615, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,466,546 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $949,931 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.

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

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–20) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 64% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its 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
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
WI
NY
MA
IN
PA
CT
CA
CO
TN
NC
DC
OK
LA
GA
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +23% since the first grant, against +11% for those 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
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

  • 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
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
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Gettysburg College; 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 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. 19 of the 23 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.

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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 first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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 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
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Institute for Study Abroad Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Institute for Study Abroad Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%5%19%42%75%funder's 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
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 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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