Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
CULTURAL VISTAS INC
CULTURAL VISTAS INC (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,969,566 to it, the largest being THE HALLE FOUNDATION ($742,881). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $21M
- Funders on record
- 21
- Grants received
- $2.0M
- Net assets
- $9.2M
What Cultural Vistas Inc does
Mission
Cultural vistas leverages the power of international exchange to connect lives, enhance global skills, and drive positive change.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
The international visitor leadership program ("ivlp") is the flagship professional exchange program of the u.s. Department of state, bureau of educational and cultural affairs. Ivlp builds mutual understanding through carefully designed short-term visits to the united states for current and emerging foreign leaders each year. Ivlp brings more than 5,100 participants to the united states from countries all over the world to meet and confer with their professional counterparts and gain firsthand knowledge about the united states. Its people, policies and culture as one of only eight national program agencies. Cv works in coordination with the u.s. Department of state to administer, design, and implement ivlp programs that directly support us foreign policy goals.
$4,857,435 spent30% of program spendingCv's train usa and korea west programs provide students and professionals from all over the world the opportunity to enhance their professional skills and gain knowledge of american culture & business practices. Train usa is a professional development program providing university students, recent graduates and young professionals from around the world. The opportunity for career-focused internships and training programs for three weeks to eighteen months at us companies. Korea work-english-study-travel (west) is a professional development program providing university students and recent graduates from the republic of korea the opportunity to undertake intensive english language training, followed by career-focused internships for three to twelve months at us companies.
$4,512,811 spent$5,759,388 earned by the program28% of program spendingCv's short-term inbound study tour programs include building a diverse and inclusive culture of remembrance (daicor). Beyond washington and us embassy sponsored study tours the programs provide students and professionals the opportunity to enhance their career skills and gain knowledge of american culture and business practices through seminars,company visits and internships for three weeks to three months. The citizen ambassador program is an outbound short term study tour which brings individuals together who share a common professional focus for an in-depth international exchange. It opens doors for delegates and intenrational counterparts to share perspectives through round table meetings, site visits, and one on one conversations.
$2,123,759 spent$2,227,090 earned by the program13% of program spendingThe congress-bundestag youth exchange program is a reciprocal scholarship program jointly funded by the us department of state and the german bundestag (parliament), is designed to give participants an understanding of everyday life, education and professional training in germany.
$1,209,601 spentof which $31,851 as grants8% of program spendingThe edmund s muskie internship program is a summer internship program funded by the u s department of state that provides emerging leaders from eastern europe, the caucasus and central asia with the opportunity to gain real-world experience, complementing and enriching their graduate studies in the united states. The program includes virtual learning, training sessions on team-building, community service, and 3-month professional internships short-term programs such as u s embassy study tours provide students and professionals the opportunity to enhance their career skills and gain knowledge of american culture and business practices through seminars, company visits and internships for three weeks to three months at us companies and institutions.
$1,432,192 spent9% of program spendingIndo pacific programs include the young pacific leaders initiative which is a youth leadership deveopment initiative focused on strengthening linkages across the pacific and the us the professional fellows program oceania is a two way global exchange program designed to promote mutual understanding, enhance leadership and professional skills, as well as build lasting, sustainable partnerships between mid level emerging leaders from the pacific islands and the us the young southeast asian leaders initiative seeks to strengthen ties between the us and southeast asia, build the leadership capabilities of youth in the region, and nurture a community of leaders who work across bordersto solve common issues
$1,820,507 spent11% of program spending
The 6 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $15,956,305.
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 $15M to $18M (+23%).
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 35% · 2018 37% · 2019 35% · 2020 44% · 2021 66% · 2022 49% · 2023 51% · 2024 45%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
49% of CULTURAL VISTAS 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. 5 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
Jennifer Clinton
President & CEO
Board chair
Jeffrey Reinke
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 6 funders, grant income fell $411k → $322k.
5 of 21 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 16% 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 CULTURAL VISTAS 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
CULTURAL VISTAS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 76%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
92% 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 CULTURAL VISTAS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 50% · 2018 71% · 2019 62% · 2020 79% · 2021 34% · 2022 42% · 2023 56% — 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
38% of CULTURAL VISTAS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 38% 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
CULTURAL VISTAS INC draws 67% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 8 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $312k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
CULTURAL VISTAS INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 363 international nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 363 international nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Government funding CULTURAL VISTAS INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $67.8M on record.
- Department of State$67.7M
- Smithsonian Institution$60k
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 CULTURAL VISTAS 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
94%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 51 states
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Cultural Vistas Ggmbh · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CULTURAL VISTAS INC?
- CULTURAL VISTAS INC (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,969,566 to it, the largest being THE HALLE FOUNDATION ($742,881). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CULTURAL VISTAS INC have?
- IRS filings report 21 organizations giving $1,969,566 in grants to CULTURAL VISTAS INC, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CULTURAL VISTAS INC?
- THE HALLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $742,881 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CULTURAL VISTAS 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.
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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 21 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