Public Charity

CENTER FOR APPLIED LINGUISTICS

CENTER FOR APPLIED LINGUISTICS is a Public Charity headquartered in WASHINGTON, DC. Financial data from the 2025 filing: $14.1M revenue, $13.2M expenses, $13.4M total assets. 11 publicly reported grants to this organization, totaling roughly $651K, appear in IRS filings.

EIN: 520807619 WASHINGTON, DC Latest filing: 2025
Total Revenue$14.1M
Total Expenses$13.2M
Total Assets$13.4M
Grant Records11
Funding Total$651K
Filing Years2021–2025

Mission

THE MISSION OF THE CENTER FOR APPLIED LINGUISTICS (CAL) IS TO PROMOTE LANGUAGE LEARNING AND CULTURAL UNDERSTANDING BY SERVING AS A TRUSTED SOURCE FOR RESEARCH, RESOURCES, AND POLICY ANALYSIS. THROUGH ITS WORK, CAL SEEKS SOLUTIONS TO ISSUES INVOLVING LANGUAGE AND CULTURE AS THEY RELATE TO ACCESS AND EQUITY IN EDUCATION AND SOCIETY AROUND THE GLOBE.

Where $100 goes at Center for Applied Linguistics

How Center for Applied Linguistics divides every $100 it spends, from its own Form 990 filings, averaged across 9 years.

$78 Programs the work itself
$22 Management running the organization
$0 Fundraising none reported

No fundraising costs are reported. That often means fundraising runs through a separate affiliated organization that files its own return.

Inside the $78 for programs

$55
Venture activities
71% of program spending
$23
Sponsored programs:funded projects remain cal's primary and most significant funding source
29% of program spending
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Source: Form 990 filings with the IRS, latest fiscal year 2025. Shares are from the organization's reported expenses. Data by Imperigo; not affiliated with the IRS.

Officers & Directors

VICE CHAIR Anthony Tassi
TRUSTEE Dr Andrea Sterzuk
TRUSTEE Dr David Cassels Johnson
TRUSTEE Dr Francis Hult
TRUSTEE Dr Marguerite Lukes
TRUSTEE Dr Maria Adelaida Restrepo

Officer compensation and complete director data available with membership.

Top Grant Purposes

General Support
$447,097 7 grants
Youth Development
$169,688 2 grants
Unspecified
$34,070 1 grant

Financial Trends

Year Revenue Expenses Assets
2025 $14.1M $13.2M $13.4M
2024 $13.3M $12.8M $13.5M
2023 $13.3M $11.4M $12.8M
2022 $11.6M $10.2M $10.3M
2021 $10.7M $9.2M $9.4M

Between 2021 and 2025, reported annual revenue grew from $10.7M to $14.1M (+32%), with total assets most recently reported at $13.4M.

Interactive year-over-year charts and full filing details available with membership.

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