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World Affairs Council of Northern California

The mission of the organization is to engage the public in the exploration of issues and opportunities that transcend borders.

$4.9M
Granted FY2023
1
Grants FY2023
1
Organizations funded FY2023
100%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2023
$4,948,828
Largest grant, FY2023
$4,948,828
Organizations funded a year
1 to 1
FY2019 to FY2023
States reached, FY2023
1

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 100% of the organizations World Affairs Council of Northern California funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20231$4.9M100%
FY20191$100kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2023.

Public Benefit$4.9MSocial Science$100k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Commonwealth Club - World Affairs of California$4,948,828174%
The Aspen Institute Inc$100,00010%

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About World Affairs Council of Northern California

How much does World Affairs Council of Northern California give?
World Affairs Council of Northern California reported 1 grants totaling $4,948,828 in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 1 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
What does World Affairs Council of Northern California fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2023, its largest causes are Public Benefit (98%), Social Science (2%).
Who are World Affairs Council of Northern California's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2023: The Commonwealth Club - World Affairs of California ($4.9M), The Aspen Institute Inc ($100k).
Does World Affairs Council of Northern California fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Where is World Affairs Council of Northern California based?
World Affairs Council of Northern California is based in CA.

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 2 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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