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· Public charity

The World Orphan Fund Inc

The organizations mission is to provide emergency, transformational and essential funding for orphans and orphan care providers around the world.

$3.3M
Granted FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$445k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.

International$1.5MHuman Services$176kRecreation & Sports$78kYouth Development$9k
02FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 8 grants below total $589,560, the rows itemized in this filing. The $3,297,299 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $2,707,739 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

  • $10k–50k7 grants · $145k
  • $250k+1 grant · $445k
$15,500
Median grant
6
States reached
$978k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Open Door Foundation$445,044
Children of Heroes$43,010
Ukraine Orphan Outreach$35,500
Hope for Children Ministries$15,500
La Promesa Honduras Inc$14,999
Orphan Resources International$13,507
Helping Hands Foreign Missions$12,000
Embrace Texas$10,000
02The need
03

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 (FY21–24, $611k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Hope Children's Fund: $10k → 13%Hope for Children Ministries: $16k → 17%La Promesa Honduras Inc: $57k → 11%Ukraine Orphan Outreach: $232k → 11%La Promesa Honduras Inc: $17k → 11%Ukraine Orphan Outreach: $228k → 11%La Promesa Honduras Inc: $15k → 11%Ukraine Orphan Outreach: $36k → 11%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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
WI
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CO
GA
TX
FL

Grants abroad, by region: $2.7M on the FY2024 return

Schedule F, as filed: 3 regions. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

Europe (including Iceland and Greenland)$2.1M · 77% · 2 grants

Stated purpose: Attached SchF detail

Central America and the Caribbean$524k · 19% · 2 grants

Stated purpose: Attached SchF detail

Sub-Saharan Africa$91k · 3% · 2 grants

Stated purpose: Attached SchF detail

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.

61%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.1M · 6 repeat orgs$693k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +41% since the first grant, against -55% for those funded once.

6 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
4

Total granted

$1.1M
$233k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%
-55%

Still filing today

100%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 22% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $461k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesInternationalRecreation & SportsPhilanthropyOther
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

  • LP
    LA PROMESA HONDURAS INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $89k · revenue +45%
  • MM
    MOYO MISSIONS INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $78k · revenue +41%
  • EW
    Embrace Waiting Children Inc
    3× · 2021–2024 · $77k · revenue +1%

Funded once

  • BO
    BIRD OF LIGHT FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2023 · $199k
  • HF
    HOPE FOR CHILDREN INTERNATIONAL INC
    one grant, 2021 · $15k
  • HI
    Hope International Ministries Incgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +35%
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
Kids for Him

assisting orphans and missionary in need

International
2
Orphans Hope International
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3
Hope of Honduras Inc

Organization operates a children's home in Honduras that provides food, clothing, shelter, medical care and education to abused and abandonded children in need.

International
4
Hilo Ministries Inc

To be an organization where people are excited to assist in the love and care of the orphan and those in foster care, as well as providing temporary housing and training for those in the worldwide missionary field.

Human Services
5
Interhope Inc

To assist in the rescue and care of abandoned and orphaned children in the developing world and to advocate for them by creating awareness of their plight within Christian churches.

Religion
6
Project Renewed Hope Inc

Support of Orphaned, Displaced or Abandoned children.

Human Services
7
Global Orphan Hope

Global Orphan Hope seeks to serve by caring for orphans around the world. Global Orphan Hope believes that every child deserves to be loved, to feel secure, and to have a place to call home. When a child cannot remain with his/her family,…

Human Services
8
Hope for His Children International Inc

To provide support for permanent housing residential child care education to orphaned abandoned and vulnerable children in honduras.

Human Services
9
Mission Orphan

Raise funds for children in Haiti

—
10
The Orphans Hands Inc

The Orphan's Hands provides a safe home and education for orphaned youth at risk of being trafficked in high-risk countries while bringing the love and hope of Jesus.

International
11
International Christian Partners Llc

Childrens Home and Ministry in India

Religion
12
Children of Promise International

Children of promise international is a nonprofit organization providing humanitarian aid, relief and development in approximately 7 countries for the purpose of caring for orphans, widows, and destitute children and outreach to the poor…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children of Heroes of Ukraine Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Ambassadors of Fathers House. 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

10 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. 10 of the 12 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
5/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Ukraine Orphan Outreach: $496,013 · Human ServicesUkraine Orphan OutreachLA PROMESA HONDURAS INC: $89,382 · Human ServicesLA PROMESA HONDURAS INC+3 more: $34,600 · Human Services+3 moreOpen Door Foundation: $445,044 · OtherOpen Door Foundation+1 more: $15,000 · OtherCHILDREN OF HEROES OF UKRAINE FOUNDATION: $293,010 · InternationalCHILDREN OF HEROES OF UKRAI…Embrace Waiting Children Inc: $76,500 · InternationalEmbrace Waiting Children In…ORPHAN RESOURCES INTERNATIONAL: $58,490 · InternationalORPHAN RESOURCES INTERNATIO…BIRD OF LIGHT FOUNDATION INC: $198,634 · PhilanthropyBIRD OF LIGH…MOYO MISSIONS INC: $78,183 · Recreation & Sports
Human Services$619,995Other$460,044International$428,000Philanthropy$198,634Recreation & Sports$78,183

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUkraine Orphan Outreach: $496,013 over 3y, 63% of budgetCHILDREN OF HEROES OF UKRAINE FOUNDATION: $293,010 over 2y, 5.7% of budgetLA PROMESA HONDURAS INC: $89,382 over 3y, 23% of budgetMOYO MISSIONS INC: $78,183 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetEmbrace Waiting Children Inc: $76,500 over 3y, 7.2% of budgetORPHAN RESOURCES INTERNATIONAL: $58,490 over 3y, 5.1% of budgetHOPE FOR CHILDREN MINISTRIES INC: $15,500 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetHope International Ministries Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAMBASSADORS OF FATHERS HOUSE: $9,100 over 1y, 1.5% 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.

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.

Natl Christian Charit…Paypal Charitable Giv…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
Natl Christian Charitable Fdn IncGA9.9× affinity7 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 The World Orphan Fund Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The World Orphan Fund Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get 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.

    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 12 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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