Arizona · Nonprofit
THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF THE MEDITERRANEAN
THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF THE MEDITERRANEAN (Arizona) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $138,000 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($82,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 99% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $28M
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $138k
- Net assets
- $18M
What The American College of the Mediterranean does
Mission
The mission of The American College of the Mediterranean is to provide excellence in international education, inspire intercultural awareness, and prepare students for success in a global community through the study of european and mediterranean history, languages, cultures, and contemporary issues.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The American College of the Mediterranean ("acm") is an institution of higher learning offering american-style undergraduate and graduate degrees to students in attendance at its main campus located in aix-en-provence france. Acm is the successor organization from the merger of acm and the institute for american universities ("iau"), a new york not-for-profit educational corporation, which has provided academic programs in aix-en-provence for american university students spending an academic year or semester abroad since its founding in 1957. Acm hosted 2,565 total students and 46 degree seeking students in 2024. Acm was established to expand upon a long history of american-style higher education in southern france by leveraging the talents of an existing faculty, the facilities of an historic campus, and the cultural diversity of its mediterranean location through the introduction of several bachelor's and master's programs in the arts, social sciences, and business.the institute for american universities ("iau") was the sole corporate member of The American College of the Mediterranean.iau and acm merged effective july 31, 2021.
$18,629,275 spent$26,423,589 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $18,629,275.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2024 to 2025, from $19M to $24M (+21%).
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: 2022 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
3% of THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF THE MEDITERRANEAN’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 7 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
Joseph M Herlihy
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
3 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 99% 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 THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF THE MEDITERRANEAN’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
THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF THE MEDITERRANEAN leans on a few funders — its largest provides 59% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
99% 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 THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF THE MEDITERRANEAN.
“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
99% of THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF THE MEDITERRANEAN'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 $1k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Arizona, across 1 state.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $137k 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.
Against its field
THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF THE MEDITERRANEAN has grown faster than three-quarters of the 3,758 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,758 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF THE MEDITERRANEAN
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 Arizona
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
72% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF THE MEDITERRANEAN: 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 THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF THE MEDITERRANEAN?
- THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF THE MEDITERRANEAN (Arizona) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $138,000 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($82,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 99% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF THE MEDITERRANEAN have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $138,000 in grants to THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF THE MEDITERRANEAN, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF THE MEDITERRANEAN?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $82,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF THE MEDITERRANEAN find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Arizona. 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 4 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