New York · Nonprofit
INTERNATIONAL HOUSE
INTERNATIONAL HOUSE (New York) receives grants from 52 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,522,590 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,563,800). 34 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $36M
- Funders on record
- 52
- Grants received
- $6.5M
- Net assets
- $129M
What International House does
Mission
International House's mission is to create an open-minded and intellectually challenging community where our residents expand their worldviews and form lifelong bonds.we are an immersive living and learning residency program for graduate students and young professionals from around the world. Our competitive admissions process curates a cohort of diverse individuals who demonstrate a willingness to be actively engaged in an open-minded and supportive community. Through intentional programming and daily interactions, we teach social and cultural intelligence and foster lasting friendships. Living in an inclusive environment instills a lifelong commitment to cross-cultural understanding that our global network of alumni and friends carry into their communities, practices, and professions.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Residents' operations:International House is a residential and programmatic community devoted to the mission of promoting cross-cultural understanding for approximately 700 carefully selected graduate students and professionals from numerous countries around the world. The resident members study or train at dozens of nyc-area institutions in a wide range of disciplines.
$11,906,806 spentof which $1,650,828 as grants$13,258,136 earned by the program74% of program spendingAuxiliary services:International House offers programmatic facilities and auxiliary services. They include a programs & resident life office, resident support services (including counseling, crisis intervention, and referrals), fitness center, gymnasium, auditorium, pub, study center, music practice rooms, computer lab, tv lounges, special events, programmatic rooms, storage facilities, bike room, various floor lounges, dining service, mail service, laundry service, vending, phone, and internet.
$3,076,099 spent$3,973,665 earned by the program19% of program spendingEducational, social and health programs:International House offers educational, social, cultural, and wellness-based programming as well as leadership training to promote cross-cultural understanding. These include orientation and training programs, leadership development opportunities and fellowships, distinguished speaker programs, multidisciplinary focused events (including arts, sciences, foreign policy, humanities), and cultural celebrations. Additional activities include ballroom and traditional dance lessons, monthly community development activities, resident recitals, off-site excursions, salon nights, roundtables and fireside chats, and sunday suppers.
$1,211,705 spent7% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $16,194,610.
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 2020 to 2021, from $97M to $114M (+18%).
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: 2021 10% · 2022 6% · 2024 2% · 2025 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
29% of INTERNATIONAL HOUSE’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. 1 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
Sebastian Fries
President/CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2020 and FY2021 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 13 funders to 21 funders, grant income rose $160k → $1.1M.
12 of 52 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 44% 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 INTERNATIONAL HOUSE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 52 funders by total. 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
INTERNATIONAL HOUSE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 24% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
45% 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 INTERNATIONAL HOUSE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 38% · 2018 60% · 2019 27% · 2020 28% · 2021 19% · 2022 47% · 2023 32% — 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.
How long its funders stay
45% of INTERNATIONAL HOUSE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% 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
72% of INTERNATIONAL HOUSE's grant income comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.9M 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.
Against its field
INTERNATIONAL HOUSE runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 174 international nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 174 international nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like INTERNATIONAL HOUSE
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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
72% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
51%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for INTERNATIONAL HOUSE: 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 INTERNATIONAL HOUSE?
- INTERNATIONAL HOUSE (New York) receives grants from 52 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,522,590 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,563,800). 34 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does INTERNATIONAL HOUSE have?
- IRS filings report 52 organizations giving $6,522,590 in grants to INTERNATIONAL HOUSE, 34 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of INTERNATIONAL HOUSE?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $1,563,800 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like INTERNATIONAL HOUSE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 52 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