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Foundation for Intl Understanding

Foundation for Intl Understanding (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $1,000 to it, the largest being L ROBERT & PATRICIA PAYNE FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($1,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$7k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$1k
Net assets
$0
0/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency -77%
01What it does

What Foundation for Intl Understanding does

Mission

Cultural Exchange Program

As stated on its FY2019 Form 990-EZ.

Programs

  1. Food drive for under privileged families

    $0 spent
  2. Christmas Drive for underprivileged Children to include toys/clothing

  3. Book drive for underprivileged children

  4. Provide school uniforms/shoes for underprivileged students

The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990-PF.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($85k) Expenses 100 ($151k) Net assets 100 ($637k)2018 Revenue 23 ($19k) Expenses 100 ($150k) Net assets 79 ($506k)2019 Revenue 66 ($55k) Expenses 89 ($134k) Net assets 67 ($427k)2021 Revenue 67 ($56k) Expenses 57 ($86k) Net assets 41 ($260k)2022 Revenue 6 ($5k) Expenses 60 ($90k) Net assets 28 ($175k)2023 Revenue -2 ($-1291) Expenses 63 ($95k) Net assets 13 ($80k)2024 Revenue 8 ($7k) Expenses 58 ($87k) Net assets 0 ($0)
2017201820192021202220232024
Revenue (8)Expenses (58)Net assets (0)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $640k to $512k (−20%).

$640k
$512k
$430k
$269k
$182k
$90k
$0
2017201820192021202220232024
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.

−$66k
’17
−$131k
’18
−$79k
’19
’21
’22
’23
’24
4.4
months of
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.

201720182021202220232024
Listed333333
Joined·+1·+0+0+0
No longer listed·1·000
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

From the IRS filings of Foundation for Intl Understanding’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.

Where its funders are

100% of Foundation for Intl Understanding's grant income comes from California funders.

CA

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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like Foundation for Intl Understanding

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 California

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Foundation for Intl Understanding: 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 Intl Understanding?
Foundation for Intl Understanding (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $1,000 to it, the largest being L ROBERT & PATRICIA PAYNE FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($1,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Foundation for Intl Understanding have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $1,000 in grants to Foundation for Intl Understanding.
Who is the largest funder of Foundation for Intl Understanding?
L ROBERT & PATRICIA PAYNE FAMILY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Foundation for Intl Understanding find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 1 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