Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
AMERICAN COUNCILS FOR INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION ACTR ACCELS INC
AMERICAN COUNCILS FOR INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION ACTR ACCELS INC (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 34 organizations whose IRS filings report $23,341,824 to it, the largest being BRYN MAWR COLLEGE ($11,776,315). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $112M
- Funders on record
- 34
- Grants received
- $23M
- Net assets
- $16M
What American Councils for International Education Actr Accels Inc does
Mission
American Councils for International Education is a leader in international education, academic exchange, and overseas language immersion.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Student exchange: american councils administers educational exchange opportunities. In coordination with the u.s. And foreign governments, foundations and private sector funders for over 5,000 secondary school, undergraduate, and graduate students each year from approximately 85 countries across africa, south and east asia, europe, eurasia, the middle east, and north and south america. American councils also manages language and cultural immersion programs for americans in africa, asia, europe, eurasia, and the middle east for secondary school, undergraduate, graduate students, and scholars. These programs promote mutual understanding between americans and international students. Inbound students to the u.s. Learn firsthand about u.s. Values, volunteerism and leadership. In addition, students share their u.s. Experiences with friends, families and communities in their home countries. Similarly, u.s. Outbound students are afforded opportunities to share american culture and values with their international host families, host institutions, and friends during their overseas programs, strengthening the understanding of the u.s. And its people on a global scale.american councils also…
$65,408,990 spentof which $119,907 as grants$2,109,613 earned by the program71% of program spendingProgram development: american councils offers shortterm training opportunities for outstanding professionals from around the world. These robust programs provide for the sharing of fieldspecific information between participants and their u.s. Counterparts, and then, upon return to their home countries, program alumni share their experiences with their colleagues. American councils administered professional development programs include professional and leadership fellowships, business leader fellowships, and the international visitors leadership program, as well as the open world program, a program administered in collaboration with the congressional office for international leadership. Over 32,000 participants from a wide variety of professional fields have traveled to over 2,400 u.s. Communities in all 50 states to meet and share knowledge with their professional colleagues to learn about life in america.
$24,593,988 spentof which $470,923 as grants$2,326,824 earned by the program27% of program spendingResearch scholars: american councils offers numerous programs that provide support for scholars from the u.s., eurasia, and southeast europe. The organization also publishes dozens of major textbooks and teaching tools, and offers online language learning programs, including a vast online language learning and teaching network for teachers, students, and others interested in critical language acquisition. American councils also administers the overseas national flagship language programs for african languages, russian, thai, and vietnamese. The programs are designed to address the critical need for greater numbers of u.s. Professionals in business, government, academia, and the third sector who are able to speak, read, understand, and write these languages at the highest levels of functional proficiency.
$1,803,500 spent2% of program spendingTeacher and faculty development: american councils serves as a leader in the field of teacher exchange, administering innovative teacher training and faculty development programs that offer international educators the opportunity to travel to the u.s. To learn new teaching methodologies, strengthen curricula, and build strong professional relationships with american colleagues. American councils also administers bilateral faculty programs that offer u.s. Teachers the opportunity to travel abroad for professional development activities, contributing to the dissemination of vital expertise in foreign language teaching. Working with ministries, government agencies, and academic institutions, american councils has developed national standardized assessments and largescale teacher and faculty trainings, and implemented countrywide academic integrity systems and policies. American councils has advised governments and institutions on educational reforms and development.
$587,894 spent$26,219 earned by the program1% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $92,394,372.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $32M to $48M (+49%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 88% · 2018 87% · 2019 88% · 2020 88% · 2021 86% · 2022 91% · 2023 92% · 2024 92% · 2025 91%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
95% of AMERICAN COUNCILS FOR INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION ACTR ACCELS INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (98% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Board chair
Robert Heath
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 11 funders, grant income rose $1.3M → $2.7M.
11 of 34 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 4% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of AMERICAN COUNCILS FOR INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION ACTR ACCELS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 34 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
AMERICAN COUNCILS FOR INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION ACTR ACCELS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% of grant income and the top three 81%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
64% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund AMERICAN COUNCILS FOR INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION ACTR ACCELS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 77% · 2018 65% · 2019 81% · 2020 77% · 2021 63% · 2022 57% · 2023 46% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
28% of AMERICAN COUNCILS FOR INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION ACTR ACCELS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
AMERICAN COUNCILS FOR INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION ACTR ACCELS INC draws 77% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 10 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $917k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
AMERICAN COUNCILS FOR INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION ACTR ACCELS INC's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 53 international nonprofits over $100M, FY2025
Government funding AMERICAN COUNCILS FOR INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION ACTR ACCELS INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $653.2M on record.
- Department of State$625.5M
- Millennium Challenge Corporation$16.6M
- Agency for International Development$5.2M
- General Services Administration$3.0M
- Department of Education$3.0M
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like AMERICAN COUNCILS FOR INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION ACTR ACCELS INC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- American Center for Education and Testing · exempt
- American Center for Education & Research · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds AMERICAN COUNCILS FOR INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION ACTR ACCELS INC?
- AMERICAN COUNCILS FOR INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION ACTR ACCELS INC (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 34 organizations whose IRS filings report $23,341,824 to it, the largest being BRYN MAWR COLLEGE ($11,776,315). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does AMERICAN COUNCILS FOR INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION ACTR ACCELS INC have?
- IRS filings report 34 organizations giving $23,341,824 in grants to AMERICAN COUNCILS FOR INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION ACTR ACCELS INC, 20 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AMERICAN COUNCILS FOR INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION ACTR ACCELS INC?
- BRYN MAWR COLLEGE is the largest funder on record, with $11,776,315 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AMERICAN COUNCILS FOR INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION ACTR ACCELS INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 34 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing