Massachusetts · Nonprofit
CIEE Inc
CIEE Inc (Massachusetts) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,977,921 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($10,496,031). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 97% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $218M
- Funders on record
- 27
- Grants received
- $11M
- Net assets
- $119M
What CIEE Inc does
Mission
To help people gain understanding, acquire knowledge, and develop skills for living in a globally interdependent and culturally diverse world by offering the most comprehensive, relevant, and valuable exchange programs available.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
For over 75 years, CIEE's mission has been to develop and deliver international programs and support services to help people gain understanding, acquire knowledge, and develop skills for living in a globally interdependent and culturally diverse world. CIEE provides intercultural educational opportunities for approximately 17,000 high school and college students to primarily study abroad each year, and approximately 40,000 participants, primarily high school and college students, the intercultural opportunity to study or work in the United States.
$157,569,459 spentof which $14,196,586 as grants$203,393,020 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $157,569,459.
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 2019 to 2020, from $176M to $123M (−30%).
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: 2020 0% · 2022 2% · 2023 1% · 2024 0% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
3% of CIEE Inc’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (98% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
James P Pellow
CEO & President
Board chair
Laura Brege
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 6 funders, grant income rose $44k → $2.6M.
7 of 27 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 97% 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 CIEE Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 26 of 27 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
CIEE Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 96% 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
98% 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 CIEE Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 40% · 2018 97% · 2019 98% · 2020 98% · 2021 96% · 2023 97% — growing more concentrated.
“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
0% of CIEE Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 26% 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
97% of CIEE 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 $352k that is directly attributable, 82% of it comes from funders outside Massachusetts, across 14 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $11M 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
CIEE Inc runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 53 international nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 53 international nonprofits over $100M, FY2025
Organizations like CIEE 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 Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
91%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 3 states
Part of a family of 37 related entities
- CIEE Real Estate Holdings LLC · disregarded
- Berlin Global Campus LLC · disregarded
- G27 Holdings LLC · disregarded
- G27 GP GmbH · disregarded
- Gneisenaustrasse Third LLC · disregarded
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CIEE Inc: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CIEE Inc?
- CIEE Inc (Massachusetts) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,977,921 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($10,496,031). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 97% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does CIEE Inc have?
- IRS filings report 27 organizations giving $10,977,921 in grants to CIEE Inc, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CIEE Inc?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $10,496,031 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CIEE Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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 27 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