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Behring Global Educational Foundation Formerly World Education Foundation

The foundation is dedicated to providing leadership, oversight, partnership development, and coordination of worldwide wheelchair deliveries as well as supporting various education, health, food and museum programs around the world.

$22M
Granted FY2024still arriving
13
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$18M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2024.

Health$19MPhilanthropy$165kEducation$163kAnimals$100kYouth Development$51kHousing & Shelter$45kCivil Rights$40kRecreation & Sports$25kOther$0
02FY2024 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 13 grants below total $17,935,026, the rows itemized in this filing. The $21,847,098 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $3,912,072 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $220k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $200k
  • $250k+1 grant · $18M
$25,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$229M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JOHN MUIR HEALTH FOUNDATION$17,507,200
SHEPHERDS OF WILDLIFE SOCIETY$100,000
GLOBAL EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION$100,000
AFRICAN CHILDRENS SCHOOL$47,500
VIET DREAMS FOUNDATION$40,227
COMMUNITY YOUTH CENTER$25,700
SHEPARDS GATE$25,000
Individual grant recipient$25,000
VARIOUS 501c3 ORGS$21,899
Individual grant recipient$15,000
ST ISIDORE SCHOOL FOUNDATION$10,000
TETON LITERCY CENTER$10,000
HOLY CROSS HOSPITAL$7,500
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY23–23, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%PLEDGE TO HUMANITY: $15k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Grants abroad, by region: $3.8M on the FY2024 return

Schedule F, as filed: 27 regions, $923k to organizations and $2.9M to individuals. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

China$1.6M · 41% · 2 grants · 10554 people

Stated purpose: PROGRAM: EDUCATION · PROGRAM: MUSEUMS · PROVIDE WHEELCHAIRS TO THE DISABLED

North America (Canada and Mexico)$336k · 9% · 2620 people

Stated purpose: PROVIDE WHEELCHAIRS TO THE DISABLED

Guatemala$184k · 5% · 1620 people

Stated purpose: PROVIDE WHEELCHAIRS TO THE DISABLED

Tanzania$179k · 5% · 1280 people

Stated purpose: PROVIDE WHEELCHAIRS TO THE DISABLED

Panama$145k · 4% · 1015 people

Stated purpose: PROVIDE WHEELCHAIRS TO THE DISABLED

Peru$112k · 3% · 720 people

Stated purpose: PROVIDE WHEELCHAIRS TO THE DISABLED

Nicaragua$110k · 3% · 520 people

Stated purpose: PROVIDE WHEELCHAIRS TO THE DISABLED

Dominican Republic$103k · 3% · 752 people

Stated purpose: PROVIDE WHEELCHAIRS TO THE DISABLED

Nepal$100k · 3% · 530 people

Stated purpose: PROVIDE WHEELCHAIRS TO THE DISABLED

How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$19M · 6 repeat orgs$483k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +82% since the first grant, against +74% for those funded once.

6 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
8

Total granted

$19M
$175k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+82%
+74%

Still filing today

67%
25%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $308k went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’23’24
HealthPhilanthropyEducationYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesAnimalsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • JM
    JOHN MUIR HEALTH FOUNDATION
    2× · 2023–2024 · $19M · revenue +24% · 41% of their budget
  • AC
    African Childrens Schools
    2× · 2023–2024 · $65k · revenue +57%
  • CY
    COMMUNITY YOUTH CENTER
    2× · 2023–2024 · $51k · revenue +84%

Funded once

  • FS
    FLEISHER SCHOLARS FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $75k
  • FT
    FIRST TEE OF TRI VALLEY
    one grant, 2023 · $25k
  • HO
    HOMEAID OF NORTHERN CALIFORNI
    one grant, 2023 · $20k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Tyh Foundation
Philanthropy
2
International Humanity Foundation
Philanthropy
3
World Forgotten Children Foundation
Philanthropy
4
Young Global Leadership Foundation

Global education programs

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5
Global Heartcare Foundation
Health
6
Humanity United
Philanthropy
7
Hope for the Youth Foundation
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8
Ayh Foundation
—
9
Young for Youth Foundation
Youth Development
10
Take Heart Foundation
—
11
The Serengeti Foundation
Environment
12
World Health Foundation
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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is John Muir Health Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Banovich Wildscapes Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

11 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 21 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/11
Grantees still filing
8/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

JOHN MUIR HEALTH FOUNDATION: $18,607,200 · HealthJOHN MUIR HEALTH FOUNDATION+1 more: $7,500 · HealthFLEISHER SCHOLARS FOUNDATION: $75,000 · OtherVARIOUS 501c3 ORGS: $43,454 · OtherVIET DREAMS FOUNDATION: $40,227 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $30,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $25,000 · OtherFIRST TEE OF TRI VALLEY: $25,000 · OtherHOMEAID OF NORTHERN CALIFORNI: $20,000 · OtherST ISIDORE SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $10,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $10,000 · Other+2 more: $15,000 · OtherGLOBAL EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $100,000 · PhilanthropyAfrican Childrens Schools: $65,338 · PhilanthropyShepherds of Wildlife Society: $100,000 · AnimalsCOMMUNITY YOUTH CENTER: $50,700 · Youth DevelopmentTETON LITERACY CENTER: $20,000 · EducationYours Humanly: $15,000 · EducationShepherds Gate: $25,000 · Housing & ShelterPledge to Humanity: $15,000 · Human Services
Health$18,614,700Other$293,681Philanthropy$165,338Animals$100,000Youth Development$50,700Education$35,000Housing & Shelter$25,000Human Services$15,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJOHN MUIR HEALTH FOUNDATION: $18,607,200 over 2y, 41% of budgetShepherds of Wildlife Society: $100,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetGLOBAL EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 1y, 100% of budgetAfrican Childrens Schools: $65,338 over 2y, 6.6% of budgetCOMMUNITY YOUTH CENTER: $50,700 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetShepherds Gate: $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTETON LITERACY CENTER: $20,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetPledge to Humanity: $15,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetYours Humanly: $15,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetHOLY CROSS HOSPITAL INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds JOHN MUIR HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Shepherds of Wildlife Society ↗
  • Who funds GLOBAL EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds African Childrens Schools ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY YOUTH CENTER ↗
  • Who funds Shepherds Gate ↗
  • Who funds TETON LITERACY CENTER ↗
  • Who funds Pledge to Humanity ↗
  • Who funds Yours Humanly ↗
  • Who funds HOLY CROSS HOSPITAL INC ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Behring Global Educat…Morgan Stanley Global…Natl Christian Charit…National Philanthropi…American Endowment Fo…The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Behring Global Educational FoundationCA20× affinity7 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Behring Global Educational Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Behring Global Educational Foundation Formerly World Education Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Behring Global Educational Foundation Formerly World Education Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Holy Cross Hospital Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.
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Find your warmest path to Behring Global Educational Foundation Formerly World Education Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 21 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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