Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
INSTITUTE OF CURRENT WORLD AFFAIRS INC
INSTITUTE OF CURRENT WORLD AFFAIRS INC (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $422,496 to it, the largest being US RUSSIA FOUNDATION FOR ECONOMIC ADVANCEMENT AND THE RULE OF LAW ($100,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 50% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $990k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $422k
- Net assets
- $8.3M
What Institute of Current World Affairs Inc does
Program
The institute of current world affairs advances american understanding of international cultures and affairs by sending outstanding young professionals abroad on two-year independent writing fellowships to study countries, regions and globally important issues. Our alumni have become some of this country's leading journalists, scholars, diplomats, activists and businesspeople. Icwa nurtures the kind of deep understanding future generations will need to ensure america's role in the world is informed by wisdom, foresight and compassion.
$542,431 spent
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-PF.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $6.4M to $7.4M (+16%).
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
Gregory Feifer
Executive director
Board chair
Fabrice Houdart
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-PF.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $15k → $185k.
3 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 50% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $1.7M from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Friendship Fund Inc Trust). These are real filings, and they are not money INSTITUTE OF CURRENT WORLD AFFAIRS INC raised.
From the IRS filings of INSTITUTE OF CURRENT WORLD AFFAIRS 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
INSTITUTE OF CURRENT WORLD AFFAIRS INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 24% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
74% 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 OF CURRENT WORLD AFFAIRS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 45% · 2023 46% — 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
50% of INSTITUTE OF CURRENT WORLD AFFAIRS INC'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 $210k that is directly attributable, 52% of it comes from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 3 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $212k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.
Organizations like INSTITUTE OF CURRENT WORLD AFFAIRS 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds INSTITUTE OF CURRENT WORLD AFFAIRS INC?
- INSTITUTE OF CURRENT WORLD AFFAIRS INC (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $422,496 to it, the largest being US RUSSIA FOUNDATION FOR ECONOMIC ADVANCEMENT AND THE RULE OF LAW ($100,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 50% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does INSTITUTE OF CURRENT WORLD AFFAIRS INC have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $422,496 in grants to INSTITUTE OF CURRENT WORLD AFFAIRS INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of INSTITUTE OF CURRENT WORLD AFFAIRS INC?
- US RUSSIA FOUNDATION FOR ECONOMIC ADVANCEMENT AND THE RULE OF LAW is the largest funder on record, with $100,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like INSTITUTE OF CURRENT WORLD AFFAIRS 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.
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 6 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