ELDERHOSTEL INC

As filed

Subsection

03

NTEE code

N500

Classification

2000

Street

PO BOX 56033

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2024

• Road Scholar's unique non ship-based educational programs held outside the United States (ranging in length from one to six weeks or more) provide a stimulating academic experience introducing participants to the arts, history, literature, culture, architecture and natural environment of their locations. They are designed to further cross-cultural understanding by forging direct connections between participants and local residents, experts and lecturers. Community service and multi-generational programs are also offered. Room, board and in most cases airfare are included in the cost. In fiscal year 2025, 46,556 enrollees participated in these programs.

  Expenses $180,636,519 · Grants $13,593 · Revenue $254,060,018

• Road Scholar's unique non ship-based educational programs in the United States (ranging in length from four days to three weeks) provide a stimulating academic experience exploring the arts, literature, sciences, history, culture, and environment of the United States. Some programs provide community service and others are designed to be multi-generational, allowing grandchildren, or adult children and their children, to attend. Room and board are included in the cost. In fiscal year 2025, 42,100 enrollees participated in these programs.

  Expenses $95,803,939 · Grants $179,169 · Revenue $118,311,523

• Road Scholar's Adventures Afloat programs (ranging in length from one week to four months) are ship-based learning adventures that allow participants to experience the educational wonders of broad regions connected by the world's oceans and waterways. Experts and professors provide stimulating educational programs on board, which are enhanced by field trips to experience the culture of local communities through related land components and lectures. Multi-generational programs are offered, and room and board are included in the cost, as is airfare for most programs. In fiscal year 2025, 8,837 enrollees participated in Adventures Afloat programs.

  Expenses $33,393,606 · Revenue $46,704,971

• Road Scholar offers programs and lectures online through Zoom that match the educational content of on-site programs. The programs range from 10 to 30 hours over three to five days, while lectures, some of which are offered at no cost, run one to two hours, including opportunities to ask questions. In fiscal year 2025, 1,242 enrollees participated in multi-day online programs and 81,883 enrollees attended online paid and free lectures.

  Expenses $312,188 · Grants $2,394 · Revenue $740,725

• Nearly 17 million publications, including 15 million catalogs and brochures were produced and mailed to over 1.5 million households on Road Scholar's mailing list. Road Scholar's website, which provides program information, had 57.8 million page views from over 7.5 million unique visitors. In FY25, Road Scholar appeared on media sites and in publications and articles that receive more than 19.5 billion unique visitors monthly.

  Expenses $30,055,347 · Revenue $195,624

• Over 175 workers in the United States and internationally collaborated with over 1,500 providers and vendors to develop, operate, oversee, and evaluate 4,679 departure dates of 696 unique programs, and 191 virtual programs and lectures.

  Expenses $16,622,945 · Revenue $186,655

• Our 110-seat Participant Services Center handled over 285,000 inbound telephone calls and made approximately 34,000 outbound telephone calls to inquirers and enrollees that resulted in over 76,000 enrollment, cancellation, transfer and contribution transactions. They also responded to over 76,000 emails. In addition, the 56-seat Travel Services Center handled over 62,000 inbound telephone calls and made over 26,000 outbound calls to enrollees who desired assistance in making, changing or cancelling their travel flight arrangements to Road Scholar programs. This team also responded to over 6,000 emails and booked over 129,000 flight segments for enrolled participants.

  Expenses $14,305,669 · Revenue $464,635

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

• 2024

  Revenue

  $445,959,787

  Expenses

  $401,004,482

  Contributions

  $3,041,921

  Grants paid

  $195,156

• 2023

  Revenue

  $383,709,603

  Expenses

  $344,125,759

  Contributions

  $2,892,923

  Grants paid

  $118,469

• 2022

  Revenue

  $344,940,076

  Expenses

  $307,047,297

  Contributions

  $8,060,314

  Grants paid

  $61,108

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

• 2024 · 990-T

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  — not reported

  Assets (EOY)

  — not reported

• 2023 · 990-T

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  — not reported

  Assets (EOY)

  — not reported

• 2022 · 990-T

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  — not reported

  Assets (EOY)

  — not reported

• 2021 · 990

  Revenue

  $157,086,376

  Expenses

  $158,077,826

  Assets (EOY)

  $208,363,648

• 2021 · 990-T

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  — not reported

  Assets (EOY)

  — not reported

• 2020 · 990

  Revenue

  $25,807,817

  Expenses

  $37,131,476

  Assets (EOY)

  $135,068,845

• 2020 · 990-T

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  — not reported

  Assets (EOY)

  — not reported

• 2019 · 990

  Revenue

  $254,323,739

  Expenses

  $278,166,818

  Assets (EOY)

  $129,859,925

• 2018 · 990

  Revenue

  $389,880,650

  Expenses

  $386,403,568

  Assets (EOY)

  $216,566,045

• 2017 · 990

  Revenue

  $353,516,336

  Expenses

  $343,663,146

  Assets (EOY)

  $194,112,304

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $77,843

  2024 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $56,111

  2023 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING

  $50,640

  2022 · HUMAN SERVICES

• DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING

  $48,880

  2024 · HUMAN SERVICES

• DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING

  $43,900

  2023 · HUMAN SERVICES

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $31,625

  2022 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION

  $19,250

  2024 · HOUSING, SHELTER

• VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM

  $15,000

  2022 · FOR RECIPIENT'S EXEMPT PURPOSE

• VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM

  $13,500

  2023 · FOR RECIPIENT'S EXEMPT PURPOSE

• NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TR

  $10,500

  2024 · EDUCATION

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

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