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The Salvation Army World Service Office at a glanceAlso receives grants: funding profile →

· Public charity

The Salvation Army World Service Office

To support and strengthen the salvation army's efforts to work hand in hand with communities to improve the health, economic, and spiritual conditions of the poor throughout the world.

$14M
Granted FY2018
4
Grants FY2018
4
States reached
$125k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01FY2018 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 4 grants below total $500,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $14,401,091 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $13,901,091 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.
$125,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$74M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE SALVATION ARMY USA EAST$125,000
THE SALVATION ARMY USA SOUTH$125,000
THE SALCATION ARMY USA CENTRAL$125,000
THE SALVATION ARMY USA WEST$125,000
02The need
02

Where the grant dollars land

Across the US and around the world.

Grants abroad, by region: $11M on the FY2025 return

Schedule F, as filed: 9 regions, $11M to organizations and $471k to individuals. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

Europe (including Iceland and Greenland)$2.8M · 25% · 12 grants

Stated purpose: GENERAL SUPPORT

Sub-Saharan Africa$2.3M · 20% · 15 grants

Stated purpose: GENERAL SUPPORT

South Asia$2.2M · 20% · 11 grants

Stated purpose: GENERAL SUPPORT

Russia and Neighboring States$1.2M · 11% · 6 grants

Stated purpose: GENERAL SUPPORT

North America (Canada and Mexico)$1.0M · 9% · 2 grants

Stated purpose: GENERAL SUPPORT

South America$998k · 9% · 5 grants

Stated purpose: GENERAL SUPPORT

Central America and the Caribbean$392k · 3% · 6 grants

Stated purpose: GENERAL SUPPORT

East Asia and the Pacific$371k · 3% · 4 grants

Stated purpose: GENERAL SUPPORT

Middle East and North Africa$11k · 0% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: GENERAL SUPPORT

How this is measured
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 field
03the grantee network

0 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2018–2018.

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

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2018 to 2018, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 0 of the 4 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
0/0
Grantees still filing
0/0
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE SALVATION ARMY USA WEST: $125,000 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMY USA WESTTHE SALVATION ARMY USA SOUTH: $125,000 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMY USA SOUTHTHE SALCATION ARMY USA CENTRAL: $125,000 · OtherTHE SALCATION ARMY USA CENTRALTHE SALVATION ARMY USA EAST: $125,000 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMY USA EAST
Other$500,000

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

25%50%75%100%grantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their 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.

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 4 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 2018, released 2018. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $11M of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2018, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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