Missouri · Nonprofit
INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF METROPOLITAN ST LOUIS
INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF METROPOLITAN ST LOUIS (Missouri) receives grants from 89 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,100,019 to it, the largest being US COMMITTEE FOR REFUGEES AND IMMIGRANTS INC ($4,272,879). 45 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $41M
- Funders on record
- 89
- Grants received
- $11M
- Net assets
- $8.5M
What International Institute of Metropolitan St Louis does
Mission
See schedule o.for more than 100 years, the international institute of metropolitan st. Louis has served as the st. Louis region's hub for immigrant services and community engagement. Its mission is to create opportunities for immigrants and refugees to thrive in order to create a more welcoming, prosperous, and healthy region for all. Annually, more than 3,500 immigrants and refugees from more than 80 countries benefit from essential integrative services focused on connecting new arrivals with first-touch services and resources, engaging foreign-born with the wider community, and building a more inclusive community. Institute staff are recognized authorities about refugees and immigrant integration services. They serve on dozens of committees, task forces and boards locally and nationally.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2024 return the organization reported starting a significant new program.
The latino outreach initiative of the international institute of st. Louis supported work-eligible immigrants relocating to the st. Louis region. The program offers relocation guidance, housing resources, job search support, and education referrals, while helping newcomers connect with local networks and services to ensure a smooth transition. The program is specifically targeting latino populations to help address workforce needs and strengthen regional growth. With a strong job market, affordable cost of living, and high quality of life, the latino outreach initiative helps individuals and families successfully establish themselves in st. Louis. The afghan support program at iistl helps legally-present, work-eligible afghan individuals and families resettle in st. Louis, with a focus on secondary migrants who were initially resettled in other parts of the country and seeking affordable housing and stability. The program provides housing placement, rental assistance, and move-in support, along with orientations on tenant rights and responsibilities to promote long-term stability. Families also receive transportation assistance, grocery cards, access to social benefits, job readiness classes, employment support, english instruction, and legal services. Children benefit from school enrollment assistance and community programs like soccer, while women can build workforce skills through sewing classes. In addition, eligible afghans who arrived after august 2021 may apply for…
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).
Case management & resettlement - see schedule ocase management & resettlement:refugee resettlement occurs over the first 90 days after a refugee arrives to st. Louis. Refugee resettlement services include airport pick-up, provision of housing and furnishings on arrival, food, clothing, and transportation. In addition to these basic needs, we provide case management, cultural orientation, linkages for initial health screenings, benefits enrollment, school enrollment, crisis intervention, and various community referrals. Staff members meet refugees at the airport, deliver them to housing rented for them, provide initial home orientation, and help them begin the process of building a new life in st. Louis. Depending on the needs of each refugee family, services can include referrals to registration for english classes for adults and public school for children, employment services, and state and federal benefits applications. Clients are assigned a case specialist of similar language and culture when available. In 2024, a total of 1,549 refugees were served, including 432 afghans, 288 congolese, and 185 syrians.the latino outreach initiative of the international institute of st. Louis…
$8,665,973 spentof which $5,913,347 as grants23% of program spendingCommunity engagement - see schedule ocommunity engagement:community engagement focuses on creating a more welcoming region through; 1) connecting st. Louisans to the experience of new arrivals, 2) improving the cultural competency of customers and the wider community, 3) being a leader and a voice on issues, which impact refugees and immigrants, locally, nationally and internationally. To help build a more inclusive community, the institute produces the festival of nations, our region's largest multicultural festival that annually connects more than 100,000 visitors from across the region with the cultural traditions of newcomers and long-timers. The festival focuses on common cultural attractions, food, music, and dance and is a highly entertaining opportunity for st. Louisans to learn about and build greater appreciation for our community's growing diversity. The festival is also a valuable venue for other local non-profits to connect with these newcomers, who are difficult to reach through traditional media. As part of our community engagement activities, we offer tours to groups and volunteer opportunities that helps connect the wider community to our work. We organized 12…
$5,219,839 spentof which $820,910 as grants$365,618 earned by the program14% of program spendingEducation & citizenship - see schedule oeducation & citizenship:we provide a variety of educational programs specifically designed to meet the needs of immigrant and refugee adult learners, including english to speakers of other languages (esol) classes and session-based citizenship preparation classes, each type with levels ranging from literacy to intermediate and held weekday mornings, afternoons and evenings. Most esol and citizenship classes have both in-person and remote options. Furthermore, we offer computer classes ranging from basic to intermediate levels, driving class with an installed driving simulator and a bridge to college course. Additionally, our teen programs provide tutoring and mentoring services to immigrant and refugee youth ages 14 to 24 throughout the year. The resulting numbers for 2024 evidenced an overall total of 1,440 unduplicated clients with 1,074 served in esol classes, 76 in computer classes, 174 in driving classes and 43 in bridge to college classes. 208 students prepared for us citizenship with 56 passing the citizenship interview. The teen programs served 118 youth.
$1,289,071 spent3% of program spendingSocial work & health services: social work staff provide individual, group, and family-centered services with an emphasis on post-traumatic stress; grief, depression and other responses to migration-related trauma. Populations served include individuals experiencing challenges with such issues as aging, mental health, crime (I.e. Domestic violence), disabilities (I.e. Physical development), family conflict, and trafficking victims.iistl is a founding member of the care access for new americans (cana) mental health referral system for foreign-born individuals with the st. Louis mental health board (mhb). Anti-trafficking staff manage and support the eastern missouri/southern illinois rescue and restore consortium. The consortium is a collaborative of four networks, which conduct outreach and education to identify trafficking victims.
$1,242,262 spent3% of program spendingMo-ora:missouri office of refugee administration is an office within the international institute of st. Louis and serves as the de facto state refugee office. The office administers federal funds from the office of refugee resettlement (orr) and distributes them statewide to local service providers in a variety of programs. In 2024, mo-ora funded programs to 7 refugee resettlement agencies, 9 non-resettlement agencies providing services to afghan parolees and approximately 30 school districts around the state. In addition to providing funding, mo-ora also monitors those agencies for compliance with federal regulations and provides training and technical assistance. Mo-ora has staff in st. Louis, kansas city and near jefferson city.
$20,822,277 spentof which $6,853,860 as grants56% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $37,239,422.
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 $6.1M to $9.8M (+62%).
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: 2017 68% · 2018 65% · 2019 71% · 2020 77% · 2021 59% · 2022 77% · 2023 89% · 2024 80%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF METROPOLITAN ST LOUIS’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (21% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 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.
Board chair
Jennifer Schwesig
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 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 10 funders to 39 funders, grant income rose $427k → $1.4M.
18 of 89 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 16% 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 INSTITUTE OF METROPOLITAN ST LOUIS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 89 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 INSTITUTE OF METROPOLITAN ST LOUIS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 68%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
82% 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 INSTITUTE OF METROPOLITAN ST LOUIS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 83% · 2018 68% · 2019 55% · 2020 56% · 2021 32% · 2022 40% · 2023 45% — 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
41% of INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF METROPOLITAN ST LOUIS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 51% 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
50% of INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF METROPOLITAN ST LOUIS's grant income comes from Missouri funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.8M arriving through sponsors registered in 13 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 INSTITUTE OF METROPOLITAN ST LOUIS has grown faster than three-quarters of the 3,289 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,289 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Government funding INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF METROPOLITAN ST LOUIS receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $121.5M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$118.8M
- Department of Justice$1.5M
- Department of Homeland Security$1.2M
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 INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF METROPOLITAN ST LOUIS
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 Missouri
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
95% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Welcome Home Soulard Properties LLC · disregarded
- International Institute Community Development Corporation · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF METROPOLITAN ST LOUIS?
- INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF METROPOLITAN ST LOUIS (Missouri) receives grants from 89 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,100,019 to it, the largest being US COMMITTEE FOR REFUGEES AND IMMIGRANTS INC ($4,272,879). 45 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF METROPOLITAN ST LOUIS have?
- IRS filings report 89 organizations giving $11,100,019 in grants to INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF METROPOLITAN ST LOUIS, 45 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF METROPOLITAN ST LOUIS?
- US COMMITTEE FOR REFUGEES AND IMMIGRANTS INC is the largest funder on record, with $4,272,879 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF METROPOLITAN ST LOUIS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Missouri. 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 89 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing