International Council of Shopping
New York, NY · EIN 13-3525440. Reported 123 grants totalling $1,876,384 to 57 organizations across tax years 2021-2025, 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. 57 distinct organizations, with 13% 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. 59% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 4 year-to-year transitions. That is about the 56% median for grantmaking charities -- lower than the 67% median for private foundations. It describes the organizations it already funds, not whether it would consider a new one.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $10,000. Half of what it reported fell between $7,325 and $15,600; 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 |
| North Carolina Central University Foundation Inc | Durham, NC | $75,000 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| Kenan-Flagler Business School Foundation | Chapel Hill, NC | $73,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| New York University | New York, NY | $70,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Board of the University of Alabama | Tuscaloosa, AL | $65,600 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| The University of Texas at Austin | Austin, TX | $60,000 | 4 | 4 | 2025 |
| Southern Methodist University | Dallas, TX | $58,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| University of Wisconsin System | Madison, WI | $55,000 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| University of Connecticut | Farmington, CT | $50,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| The Administrators of the Tulane Educational Fund | New Orleans, LA | $47,500 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Indiana University | Bloomington, IN | $45,000 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| L S U Foundation | Baton Rouge, LA | $43,750 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| University of Wisconsin Foundation | Madison, WI | $38,950 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Rutgers the State University | Piscataway, NJ | $38,200 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Morehouse College | Atlanta, GA | $36,750 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Cornell University | Ithaca, NY | $35,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Yale University | New Haven, CT | $30,500 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| Cal State Fullerton Philanthropic Foundation | Fullerton, CA | $30,000 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| Regents of the University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, MI | $30,000 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| Trustees of Columbia University | New York, NY | $30,000 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| University of Florida | Gainesville, FL | $30,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| President and Fellows of Harvard College | Cambridge, MA | $25,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Regents Univ of California | Los Angeles, CA | $24,000 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| 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 Foundation for a New American University | Tempe, AZ | $21,052 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Arizona State University | Tempe, AZ | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Georgia State University Foundation Inc | Atlanta, GA | $14,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| The Pennsylvania State University | University Park, PA | $13,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Spelman College | Atlanta, GA | $12,450 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| University of Denver | Denver, CO | $12,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Babson College | Wellesley, MA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Morgan State University | Baltimore, MD | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Northeastern University | Boston, MA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| 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 |
| University of Houston System | Houston, TX | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | Chapel Hill, NC | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| 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 the University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, PA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| University of San Diego | San Diego, CA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
33 of 57 (58%) received money in more than one year over the 5 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 the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 35 of 57 recipients we could match to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's, not ours -- 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 |
| 2025 | 23 | $340,531 | $12,450 |
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
16% 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 a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.
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 5 returns (tax years 2021-2025). Grant figures are from its returns. Recipient classifications, the concentration and retention figures and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations from them, described in how we build this.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 24 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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