New York · Nonprofit
ASSOCIATION FOR CULTURAL INTERCHANGE INC
ASSOCIATION FOR CULTURAL INTERCHANGE INC (New York) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $16,196,760 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($10,000,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 65% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $16M
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $16M
- Net assets
- $242M
What Association for Cultural Interchange Inc does
Mission
Aci provides a program of support and assistance to other not-for-profit organizations and educational and vocational training institutions from elementary level through graduate studies. Aci emphasizes the promotion of international understanding and the interchange of ideas and cultural activities among people of different nations. Aci's program is carried out in the united states and foreign countries. Aci achieves this by providing grants and loans that are interest-free or bear below-market interest rates to organizations that foster and facilitate charitable and educational programs. Aci also owns and maintains real property facilities in italy and israel. Those facilities are made available rent-free to educational and cultural institutions operated by not-for-profit organizations. Aci also owns and operates the saxum center in israel which offer workshops, conferences and spiritual retreats; as well as a visitor center providing orientation for pilgirms to the holy land.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Made educational and training grants to foreign and domestic institutions. Also managed program loans to foreign and domestic institutions.
$3,435,897 spentof which $3,348,029 as grants$109,069 earned by the program46% of program spendingDeveloped and maintained institutional properties in jerusalem and rome used by charitable, educational and training institutions. Program expenses include $729,880 in property depreciation.
$949,082 spent13% of program spendingSaxum center consists of a conference center which operates workshops, conferences and spiritual retreats; as well as a visitor center. Program expenses include $1,854,464 in property depreciation.
$2,921,367 spent$778,140 earned by the program39% of program spendingService agreements with other 501(c)(3) organizations.
$103,548 spent$103,548 earned by the program1% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $7,409,894.
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 2021 to 2022, from $234M to $211M (−10%).
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.
72% of ASSOCIATION FOR CULTURAL INTERCHANGE INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (96% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 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.
Chief executive
Andrew P O'Meara
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income fell $1.3M → $551k.
7 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 65% 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 ASSOCIATION FOR CULTURAL INTERCHANGE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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
ASSOCIATION FOR CULTURAL INTERCHANGE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 62% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 ASSOCIATION FOR CULTURAL INTERCHANGE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 95% · 2019 53% · 2020 100% · 2021 85% · 2022 53% · 2023 96% — 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
50% of ASSOCIATION FOR CULTURAL INTERCHANGE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% 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
65% of ASSOCIATION FOR CULTURAL INTERCHANGE INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $5.7M that is directly attributable, 99% of it comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10M 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
ASSOCIATION FOR CULTURAL INTERCHANGE INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 363 international nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 363 international nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Organizations like ASSOCIATION FOR CULTURAL INTERCHANGE 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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
92% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
30%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Saxum Ltd (Cc) · disregarded
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ASSOCIATION FOR CULTURAL INTERCHANGE INC?
- ASSOCIATION FOR CULTURAL INTERCHANGE INC (New York) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $16,196,760 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($10,000,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 65% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does ASSOCIATION FOR CULTURAL INTERCHANGE INC have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $16,196,760 in grants to ASSOCIATION FOR CULTURAL INTERCHANGE INC, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ASSOCIATION FOR CULTURAL INTERCHANGE INC?
- NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $10,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ASSOCIATION FOR CULTURAL INTERCHANGE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 11 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