Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
COMPARATIVE AND INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION SOCIETY INC
COMPARATIVE AND INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION SOCIETY INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $99,840 to it, the largest being OPEN SOCIETY INSTITUTE ($95,540). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.3M
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $100k
- Net assets
- $2.0M
What Comparative and International Education Society Inc does
Mission
The comparative and international education society, inc. Was founded in 1956 to foster cross-cultural understanding, scholarship, academic achievement and societal development through the international study of educational ideas, systems, and practices.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Conference - the society organizes and holds an annual educational conference devoted to providing scholarly and practical exchange, debate, and a platform for networking for the society's members. The conference features keynote presentations by eminent scholars and officials, workshops for post-graduate students, and approximately 1,000 presentations as individual papers or in organized symposia. The conference attracts more than 1,500 participants from all over the world. In addition, the society endorses and provides in-kind and financial support for other smaller regional or thematic convenings of members.
$724,019 spentof which $18,962 as grants$623,710 earned by the program96% of program spendingMembership & publications - the society publishes the "comparative education review", the leading journal in the field. Each year the journal receives about 200 submissions from scholars around the globe, undertakes further review of about half the submitted manuscripts, and publishes approximately twenty articles and 20-30 book reviews in its four quarterly issues. The journal's standing is confirmed by high citation rates and a good impact factor. In addition, a newsletter is produced for electronic circulation several times each year. The newsletter has at its purpose the dissemination of news about the society's work and the work of its members, fostering exchange on issues internal to the society and for the field at large.
$27,852 spent$302,292 earned by the program4% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $751,871.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $1.5M to $2.1M (+35%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 7 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
M Najeeb Shafiq
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2022: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $0 → $50k.
From the IRS filings of COMPARATIVE AND INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION SOCIETY INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 3 of 4 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
COMPARATIVE AND INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION SOCIETY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 96% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 99% — broadly stable.
“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.
Where its funders are
COMPARATIVE AND INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION SOCIETY INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Pennsylvania, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.
Organizations like COMPARATIVE AND INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION SOCIETY 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 Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
60% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
88%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for COMPARATIVE AND INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION SOCIETY 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 COMPARATIVE AND INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION SOCIETY INC?
- COMPARATIVE AND INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION SOCIETY INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $99,840 to it, the largest being OPEN SOCIETY INSTITUTE ($95,540). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COMPARATIVE AND INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION SOCIETY INC have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $99,840 in grants to COMPARATIVE AND INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION SOCIETY INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COMPARATIVE AND INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION SOCIETY INC?
- OPEN SOCIETY INSTITUTE is the largest funder on record, with $95,540 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COMPARATIVE AND INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION SOCIETY INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 4 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