International Council of Shopping
New York, NY · EIN 13-3525440. Reported 100 grants totalling $1,535,853 to 50 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For International Council of Shopping, the IRS classifies it under education rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE B82) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 50 distinct organizations, with 16% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 62% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is about the 57% median for grantmaking charities -- noticeably lower than the 67% private foundations manage. Organizations like this one rotate more of their list each year, which is where an opening for a newcomer tends to be.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $10,000. Half of what it reported fell between $7,000 and $15,000; the smallest was $5,000 and the largest $100,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Florida International University Foundation Inc | Miami, FL | $248,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Rutgers University Foundation | New Brunswick, NJ | $206,800 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Kenan-Flagler Business School Foundation | Chapel Hill, NC | $73,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Southern Methodist University | Dallas, TX | $58,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Board of the University of Alabama | Tuscaloosa, AL | $50,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| New York University | New York, NY | $50,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| North Carolina Central University Foundation Inc | Durham, NC | $50,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| University of Connecticut | Farmington, CT | $44,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| The University of Texas at Austin | Austin, TX | $40,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Rutgers the State University | Piscataway, NJ | $38,200 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Cornell University | Ithaca, NY | $35,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Indiana University | Bloomington, IN | $35,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| The Administrators of the Tulane Educational Fund | New Orleans, LA | $35,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| University of Wisconsin Foundation | Madison, WI | $31,625 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| University of Florida | Gainesville, FL | $30,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| University of Wisconsin System | Madison, WI | $30,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| L S U Foundation | Baton Rouge, LA | $28,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| President and Fellows of Harvard College | Cambridge, MA | $25,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| The Baruch College Fund | New York, NY | $22,666 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Bernard M Baruch College Association Inc | New York, NY | $21,666 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Arizona State University | Tempe, AZ | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Cal State Fullerton Philanthropic Foundation | Fullerton, CA | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Florida State University | Tallahassee, FL | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Georgia State University | Atlanta, GA | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Project Reap | Boston, MA | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Regents of the University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, MI | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Temple University-of the Commonwealth System of Higher Educ | Philadelphia, PA | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| The Ohio State University | Columbus, OH | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| University of Southern California | Los Angeles, CA | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Yale University | New Haven, CT | $18,870 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Georgetown University | Washington, DC | $15,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Trustees of Dartmouth College | Hanover, NH | $15,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| University of Cincinnati | Cincinnati, OH | $14,500 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Regents Univ of California | Los Angeles, CA | $14,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| University of Denver | Denver, CO | $12,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Arizona State University Foundation for a New American University | Tempe, AZ | $10,526 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Babson College | Wellesley, MA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Morgan State University | Baltimore, MD | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Texas Tech University System | Lubbock, TX | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The UCLA Foundation | Los Angeles, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| The University of Tennessee | Knoxville, TN | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| The University of Texas San Antonio | San Antonio, TX | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| California State University- Northridge | Northridge, CA | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| University of Florida Foundation Inc | Gainesville, FL | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Regents of the University of California at Berkeley | Riverside, CA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| The University of South Florida Board of Trustees | Tampa, FL | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| The University of Tennessee Foundat Ion Inc | Knoxville, TN | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Trustees of Columbia University | New York, NY | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, PA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| University of San Diego | San Diego, CA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
31 of 50 (62%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 31 of 50 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 16 | $259,183 | $10,000 |
| 2022 | 27 | $349,458 | $7,000 |
| 2023 | 32 | $525,448 | $10,000 |
| 2024 | 25 | $401,764 | $10,000 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
20% of its giving went to organizations in Florida. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available that two funders have overlapping priorities -- and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.
How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $10,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Florida.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from International Council of Shopping's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 25 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 0 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: 1251 Avenue of the Americas 45TH Fl, New York, NY, 10020.
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