Washington · Nonprofit
Foundation for International Understanding Through
Foundation for International Understanding Through (Washington) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,141,131 to it, the largest being MERIDIAN INTERNATIONAL CENTER ($1,558,119). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.0M
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $2.1M
- Net assets
- $-325045
What Foundation for International Understanding Through does
Mission
FIUTS connects university students with local and global communities through cross-cultural experiences, student leadership, and community connections.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Visiting Programs welcome short-term groups of international visitors to the Seattle area for thematic and immersive experiences. Most participants are high school and college students from countries around the world.
$743,865 spent$694,057 earned by the program71% of program spendingStudent Programs provide social and intercultural programs for college and university students in the greater Seattle area, with a focus on international students. These programs include welcoming and belonging programs, social and intercultural events, and student leadership training.
$228,937 spent$39,717 earned by the program22% of program spendingCommunity Programs connect students with members of the Seattle community for exchange and networking. Programs include homestay, connections with local professionals, and tours of the business.
$76,090 spent$7,033 earned by the program7% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,048,892.
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 2024 to 2025, from $471k to $190k (−60%).
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: 2019 0% · 2020 0% · 2021 13% · 2022 9% · 2023 15% · 2024 0% · 2025 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
29% of Foundation for International Understanding Through’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. 6 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
Era Schrepfer
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $70k → $703k.
5 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 17% 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 Foundation for International Understanding Through’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
Foundation for International Understanding Through leans on a few funders — its largest provides 73% of grant income and the top three 95%; 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 Foundation for International Understanding Through.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 64% · 2018 74% · 2019 66% · 2020 73% · 2021 51% · 2022 76% · 2023 93% — 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
86% of Foundation for International Understanding Through's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% 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
Foundation for International Understanding Through draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, across 5 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $358k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
Foundation for International Understanding Through's funding base is broadening — from 2 funders to 6 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 718 international nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding Foundation for International Understanding Through receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $609k on record.
- Department of State$609k
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 Foundation for International Understanding Through
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
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
89%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Foundation for International Understanding Through: 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 Foundation for International Understanding Through?
- Foundation for International Understanding Through (Washington) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,141,131 to it, the largest being MERIDIAN INTERNATIONAL CENTER ($1,558,119). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Foundation for International Understanding Through have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $2,141,131 in grants to Foundation for International Understanding Through, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Foundation for International Understanding Through?
- MERIDIAN INTERNATIONAL CENTER is the largest funder on record, with $1,558,119 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Foundation for International Understanding Through find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. 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 10 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