Massachusetts · Nonprofit
Council on International Educational Exchange Inc
Council on International Educational Exchange Inc (Massachusetts) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $524,203 to it, the largest being ROMANIAN-AMERICAN FOUNDATION ($380,300). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $6.9M
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $524k
- Net assets
- $12M
What Council on International Educational Exchange 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 HS Foundation'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 HS Foundation provides intercultural educational opportunities for approximately 1,000 high school students to study in the United States.
$6,613,372 spent$5,475,256 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $6,613,372.
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 2020 to 2021, from $8.7M to $12M (+33%).
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 11% · 2018 10% · 2019 20% · 2020 46% · 2021 27% · 2022 37% · 2023 27% · 2024 19% · 2025 20%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
20% of Council on International Educational Exchange Inc’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (97% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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.
Chief executive
James P Pellow
President & CEO
Board chair
Laura Brege
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2022: the base held at 2 funders, grant income fell $26k → $20k.
From the IRS filings of Council on International Educational Exchange 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
Council on International Educational Exchange Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 73% of grant income and the top three 96%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
84% 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 Council on International Educational Exchange Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 88% · 2020 100% · 2021 55% · 2022 75% — 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.
Where its funders are
Council on International Educational Exchange Inc draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Massachusetts, across 7 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.
Against its field
Council on International Educational Exchange Inc holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 718 international nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 718 international nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding Council on International Educational Exchange Inc receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $9.1M on record.
- Department of State$9.1M
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 Council on International Educational Exchange 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
98% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 33 related entities
- CIEE Inc · exempt
- Consejo de Intercambios Educativos con el Extranjero CIEE · exempt
- Council International Study Programs France · exempt
- CIEE Toulouse · exempt
- CIEE (Ghana) · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Council on International Educational Exchange 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 Council on International Educational Exchange Inc?
- Council on International Educational Exchange Inc (Massachusetts) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $524,203 to it, the largest being ROMANIAN-AMERICAN FOUNDATION ($380,300). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Council on International Educational Exchange Inc have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $524,203 in grants to Council on International Educational Exchange Inc, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Council on International Educational Exchange Inc?
- ROMANIAN-AMERICAN FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $380,300 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Council on International Educational Exchange 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.
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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 7 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