· Public charity
World Central Kitchen Inc
World central kitchen (wck) is first to the frontlines, providing meals in response to humanitarian, climate, and community crises.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 3 grants below total $330,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $22,489,641 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $22,159,641 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2023
- $10k–50k2 grants · $50k
- $250k+1 grant · $280k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BUILDING MARKETS LTD | $280,000 |
| CHARLOTTE AREA FUND | $25,000 |
| EAST SIDE NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES | $25,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY23–23, $50k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
Grants abroad, by region — $35M on the FY2024 return
Schedule F, as filed: 1 region. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.
Stated purpose: EMERGENCY RELIEF
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 7% of World Central Kitchen Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 12% of the giving stays in DC; read by stated purpose it is 6% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
6 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2023, 6 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $330k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- MBMINISTERIO BUEN SAMARITANO MARC MARCOS A RIVERA CORDOVA INC2× · 2019–2022 · $525k · revenue +10% · 34% of their budget
- CCConservacion ConCiencia2× · 2018–2019 · $40k
- SFSEJAH FARM OF THE VIRGIN ISLANDS2× · 2020–2022 · $40k
Funded once
AMERICAN NEAR EAST REFUGEE AIDgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $250k · revenue +57%
BIPARTISAN POLICY CENTER INCone grant, 2021 · $250k · revenue -16%- WTWAYUU TAYA FOUNDATIONINCone grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue +0%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Medical asst to under develop areas
Cafe' Femenino Foundation aims to enhance the lives of women and families in the coffee-producing communities throughout the world.
Medical relief and health education
Development activities, projects of housing and socioeconomic development to assist low and moderate income comunities in puerto rico.
To reduce childhood malnutrition in Haiti and provide people in rural areas access to life-saving medical care.
Integral development of communi
PROCAFE Corporation is a Puerto Rican non-profit organization committed to revitalizing the coffee industry through programs that enhance the economic, social, and environmental well-being of coffee farmers and their communities. Governed…
Puente de Amistad supports programs in Cuba to promote promote the educational, spiritual, and moral development of children, youth and families, particularly in poor or rural areas.
A non for profit organization that works in partnership with donors, volunteers, and homeowners of all backgrounds to build, remodel, and rehabilitate decent and affordable housing for those in need.
Use the arts as a tool for social well-being, solidarity, leadership and self-management.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Haser Inc and the most unlike its peers is Yachtaid Global. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 12 years old; the field is 16. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 10% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
27 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 27 of the 146 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds MINISTERIO BUEN SAMARITANO MARC MARCOS A RIVERA CORDOVA INC ↗
- Who funds BUILDING MARKETS LTD ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN NEAR EAST REFUGEE AID ↗
- Who funds BIPARTISAN POLICY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds WAYUU TAYA FOUNDATIONINC ↗
- Who funds Bokitas Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds YACHTAID GLOBAL ↗
- Who funds HAITIAN HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FABRETTO CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HERO FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DEPARTAMENTO DE LA COMIDA DE PUERTO RICO INC ↗
- Who funds JACQUES PEPIN FOUNDATION THE ↗
- Who funds EAST SIDE NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Charlotte Area Fund Inc ↗
- Who funds MUJERES DE ISLAS INC ↗
- Who funds FUNDACIN LUIS MUOZ MARIN INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Hispanic Federation Inc · Para la Naturaleza Inc · Peter Alfond Foundation · Puerto Rico Community Foundation Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Network for Good
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization World Central Kitchen Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.