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INTERNATIONAL STUDENT CONFERENCES INC

INTERNATIONAL STUDENT CONFERENCES INC (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,320,378 to it, the largest being PAYPAL Charitable Giving Fund ($935,423). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 79% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

$588k
Revenue FY2024
11
Funders on record
$1.3M
Grants received
$212k
Net assets
7/11 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 58%

Against its field

INTERNATIONAL STUDENT CONFERENCES INC's revenue grew 45% between 2017 and 2024.

Operating margin−6% · below the median
Months of reserve0.8mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)5% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,516 international nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The 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 ($405k) Expenses 100 ($391k) Net assets 100 ($177k)2018 Revenue 117 ($473k) Expenses 112 ($438k) Net assets 123 ($218k)2019 Revenue 113 ($457k) Expenses 99 ($388k) Net assets 162 ($288k)2020 Revenue 74 ($301k) Expenses 64 ($250k) Net assets 192 ($340k)2021 Revenue 86 ($348k) Expenses 73 ($283k) Net assets 240 ($425k)2022 Revenue 67 ($271k) Expenses 104 ($407k) Net assets 150 ($265k)2023 Revenue 94 ($379k) Expenses 107 ($420k) Net assets 131 ($231k)2024 Revenue 145 ($588k) Expenses 159 ($621k) Net assets 120 ($212k)
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Revenue (145)Expenses (159)Net assets (120)Peer revenue range

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.

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2018
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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 4% · 2018 11% · 2019 10% · 2020 9% · 2021 14% · 2022 27% · 2023 5% · 2024 13%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

62% of INTERNATIONAL STUDENT CONFERENCES INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,956 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$14k
17
$35k
18
$69k
19
$51k
20
$64k
21
$135k
22
$41k
23
$33k
24
0.8
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $125k → $221k.

3 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)79% 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: $70k from 3 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest United States-Japan Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money INTERNATIONAL STUDENT CONFERENCES INC raised.

From the IRS filings of INTERNATIONAL STUDENT CONFERENCES 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

INTERNATIONAL STUDENT CONFERENCES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 71% of grant income and the top three 86%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

79% 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 STUDENT CONFERENCES INC.

71%
largest funder
86%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 71% · 2018 100% · 2019 92% · 2020 69% · 2021 94% · 2022 91% · 2023 73%broadly stable.

“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

50% of INTERNATIONAL STUDENT CONFERENCES INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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

79% of INTERNATIONAL STUDENT CONFERENCES 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 $281k that is directly attributable, 59% of it comes from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 6 states.

NY
OH
PA
CA
DC
TX

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

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Washington, D.C. out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.0M 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 11 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Government funding INTERNATIONAL STUDENT CONFERENCES INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $299k on record.

Federal$299k
grants $299kcontracts $0
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Top agencies
  • Department of State$299k

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 STUDENT CONFERENCES INC

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Washington, D.C.

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

84% of spending goes to programs.

Program 84%Management 8%Fundraising 8%

Governance

13
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

96%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

DC

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for INTERNATIONAL STUDENT CONFERENCES INC: 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 STUDENT CONFERENCES INC?
INTERNATIONAL STUDENT CONFERENCES INC (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,320,378 to it, the largest being PAYPAL Charitable Giving Fund ($935,423). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 79% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does INTERNATIONAL STUDENT CONFERENCES INC have?
IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $1,320,378 in grants to INTERNATIONAL STUDENT CONFERENCES INC, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of INTERNATIONAL STUDENT CONFERENCES INC?
PAYPAL Charitable Giving Fund is the largest funder on record, with $935,423 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like INTERNATIONAL STUDENT CONFERENCES 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 11funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing