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Institute for the International Education of Students

Institute for the International Education of Students (Illinois) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,518,309 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($854,130). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 95% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$178M
Funders on record
24
Grants received
$2.5M
Net assets
$111M
16/24 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 2%
01What it does

What Institute for the International Education of Students does

Mission

The Institute for the International Education of Students (IES) blends the best elements of foreign higher education with American University requirements and encourages students to explore the unique elements of foreign countries. (CONTINUED ON SCHEDULE O)

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. The Institute for the International Education of Students ("IES") was founded in 1950 and is a global organization with academic programs around the world. IES is a consortium comprised of selective U.S. colleges and universities and enrolls students annually in programs across Africa, Asia, Australia, New Zealand, Europe, South America, and North America. IES offers a broad-based curriculum that encompasses business and international studies; communications and media; fine and performing arts; humanities; science, engineering, and health; and social and behavioral sciences. IES strives to provide students the opportunity to promote their academic and social growth while fostering specific skills that lead to the development of intercultural understanding. (CONTINUED ON SCHEDULE O)

    $134,896,556 spentof which $7,753,309 as grants$174,064,026 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $134,896,556.

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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($86M) Expenses 100 ($80M) Net assets 100 ($73M)2018 Revenue 130 ($111M) Expenses 123 ($98M) Net assets 108 ($79M)2019 Revenue 137 ($117M) Expenses 140 ($111M) Net assets 103 ($76M)2020 Revenue 143 ($122M) Expenses 137 ($109M) Net assets 110 ($81M)2021 Revenue 15 ($13M) Expenses 51 ($41M) Net assets 95 ($69M)2022 Revenue 107 ($91M) Expenses 110 ($87M) Net assets 86 ($63M)2023 Revenue 148 ($127M) Expenses 153 ($122M) Net assets 102 ($75M)2024 Revenue 192 ($165M) Expenses 192 ($153M) Net assets 125 ($91M)2025 Revenue 208 ($178M) Expenses 216 ($172M) Net assets 152 ($111M)
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Revenue (208)Expenses (216)Net assets (152)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $83M to $119M (+43%).

$89M
$96M
$104M
$111M
$89M
$83M
$119M
$141M
$158M
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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
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 1% · 2021 27% · 2022 8% · 2023 0% · 2024 0% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

1% of Institute for the International Education of Students’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (14% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 731 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$6.0M
’17
$13M
’18
$6.0M
’19
$13M
’20
−$28M
’21
$4.0M
’22
$4.9M
’23
$11M
’24
$6.3M
’25
2.6
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.

Board chair

Pamela Gann

Director/Board Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

20242025
Listed3133
Joined·+3
No longer listed·1
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $66k → $394k.

12 of 24 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 95% 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 Institute for the International Education of Students’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

Institute for the International Education of Students leans on a few funders — its largest provides 34% of grant income and the top three 81%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

95% 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 Institute for the International Education of Students.

34%
largest funder
81%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 31% · 2018 35% · 2019 34% · 2020 32% · 2021 42% · 2022 37% · 2023 41% — 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

44% of Institute for the International Education of Students's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

95% of Institute for the International Education of Students's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $122k that is directly attributable, 74% of it comes from funders outside Illinois, across 7 states.

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MI
NY
NJ
CA
DE
NC

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Illinois out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Institute for the International Education of Students has grown faster than three-quarters of the 679 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin4% · below the median
Months of reserve2.6mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)10% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 679 education nonprofits over $100M, FY2025

Organizations like Institute for the International Education of Students

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 Illinois

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

78% of spending goes to programs.

Program 78%Management 21%Fundraising 1%

Governance

25
board members
96%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

66%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 31 states

ME
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MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
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OH
PA
NJ
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RI
CA
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Part of a family of 17 related entities

  • Stitching Ies Amsterdam · disregarded
  • IES Abroad Australia Limited · disregarded
  • Ies Abroad Brasil · disregarded
  • Institute for Intl Ed of Students - Sf (Cape Town) · disregarded
  • Pathways Global Consulting (Beijing) Co Ltd · disregarded

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Questions and answers

Who funds Institute for the International Education of Students?
Institute for the International Education of Students (Illinois) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,518,309 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($854,130). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 95% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does Institute for the International Education of Students have?
IRS filings report 24 organizations giving $2,518,309 in grants to Institute for the International Education of Students, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Institute for the International Education of Students?
DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $854,130 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Institute for the International Education of Students find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 24 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