Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
THE FORUM ON EDUCATION ABROAD
THE FORUM ON EDUCATION ABROAD (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $93,500 to it, the largest being Saras Wish Foundation Inc ($53,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.1M
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $94k
- Net assets
- $2.8M
What The Forum on Education Abroad does
Mission
The Forum on Education Abroad cultivates educators who champion high-quality education abroad experiences that ignite curiousity, impact lives, and contribute to a better world.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Members of the forum commit to following the forum's standards of good practice for education abroad and support the forum's mission to cultivate educators who champion high-quality education abroad experiences that ignite curiosity, impact lives, and contribute to a better world. By engaging in dialogue, collaboration, sharing best practices, research and innovation, and professional development, the forum strives to address and provide critical resources and a forum for discussion for the field of education abroad, with particular consideration of groups who have been historically excluded or marginalized impacting access to education abroad.
$574,503 spent$818,090 earned by the program25% of program spendingThrough convening events and conferences, the forum offers opportunities for discussion, learning, and networking. The forum's annual conference and signature event is the largest gathering of education abroad professionals in the us dedicated to outbound study abroad. In march, over 1,204 people attended this in person and a further 105 virtually.
$1,269,064 spent$1,503,985 earned by the program56% of program spendingThe forum's training programs, services and resources offer important learning and development opportunities, data and analysis, quality assurance tools, publications and online resources to help institutions to advance their education abroad programs.
$413,065 spent$444,504 earned by the program18% of program spendingThe forum has continued their work in the regional engagement in europe in the form of small one day events.
The forum held the largest health and safety institute to date, and again hosted the largest hybrid conference in the field of education abroad in the united states.
The 5 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,256,632.
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 $2.5M to $3.5M (+41%).
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 20% · 2022 14% · 2023 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
6% of THE FORUM ON EDUCATION ABROAD’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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
Melissa Torres
President & CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $10k → $13k.
From the IRS filings of THE FORUM ON EDUCATION ABROAD’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 FORUM ON EDUCATION ABROAD leans on a few funders — its largest provides 57% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 FORUM ON EDUCATION ABROAD.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
THE FORUM ON EDUCATION ABROAD draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Pennsylvania, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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 FORUM ON EDUCATION ABROAD runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like THE FORUM ON EDUCATION ABROAD
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 Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
94%
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 THE FORUM ON EDUCATION ABROAD: 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 FORUM ON EDUCATION ABROAD?
- THE FORUM ON EDUCATION ABROAD (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $93,500 to it, the largest being Saras Wish Foundation Inc ($53,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE FORUM ON EDUCATION ABROAD have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $93,500 in grants to THE FORUM ON EDUCATION ABROAD, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE FORUM ON EDUCATION ABROAD?
- Saras Wish Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $53,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE FORUM ON EDUCATION ABROAD find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 3 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