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World Central Kitchen Inc

World central kitchen (wck) is first to the frontlines, providing meals in response to humanitarian, climate, and community crises.

$22M
Granted FY2023
3
Grants FY2023
3
States reached
$280k
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, FY2017 to 2023.

Food & Nutrition$1.6MPublic Safety & Disaster$1.2MCommunity Improvement$503kInternational$296kEnvironment$207kHuman Services$70kHousing & Shelter$61kEmployment$44kOther$0
02FY2023 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 3 grants below total $330,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $22,489,641 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $22,159,641 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 · FY2023

  • $10k–50k2 grants · $50k
  • $250k+1 grant · $280k
$25,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$222M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BUILDING MARKETS LTD$280,000
CHARLOTTE AREA FUND$25,000
EAST SIDE NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES$25,000
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 (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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%EAST SIDE NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES: $25k → 11%CHARLOTTE AREA FUND: $25k → 10%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

MN
IL
NY
MA
CT
RI
CA
NC
DC
FL

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.

Europe (including Iceland and Greenland)$35M · 100% · 2 grants

Stated purpose: EMERGENCY RELIEF

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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 7% of World Central Kitchen Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 12% of the giving stays in DC; by stated purpose, 6%.

World Central Kitchen Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 6.9% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

16%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$673k · 6 repeat orgs$3.5M to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
137

Total granted

$673k
$3.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+10%
+29%

Still filing today

17%
16%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $330k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
InternationalHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementHealthEnvironmentPublic Safety & DisasterOther
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

  • MB
    MINISTERIO BUEN SAMARITANO MARC MARCOS A RIVERA CORDOVA INC
    2× · 2019–2022 · $525k · revenue +10% · 34% of their budget
  • CC
    Conservacion ConCiencia
    2× · 2018–2019 · $40k
  • SF
    SEJAH FARM OF THE VIRGIN ISLANDS
    2× · 2020–2022 · $40k

Funded once

  • AMERICAN NEAR EAST REFUGEE AIDgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $250k · revenue +57%
  • BIPARTISAN POLICY CENTER INC
    one grant, 2021 · $250k · revenue -16%
  • WT
    WAYUU TAYA FOUNDATIONINC
    one grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue +0%
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
Puerto Rico Salud Inc

Medical asst to under develop areas

Health
2
Papagayo

The objective of our mission is to carry out sustainable development in communities so that they are architects of their own growth responses in each

Arts & Culture
3
Cafe Femenino Foundation

Cafe' Femenino Foundation aims to enhance the lives of women and families in the coffee-producing communities throughout the world.

International
4
Misiones Pax Inc

Medical relief and health education

International
5
Ministerio Evangelico Lazos De Amor

Integral development of communi

Human Services
6
Instituto Para El Desarrollo Socio Economico Y De Vivienda De Pr Inc

Development activities, projects of housing and socioeconomic development to assist low and moderate income comunities in puerto rico.

Housing & Shelter
7
Partner Haiti

To reduce childhood malnutrition in Haiti and provide people in rural areas access to life-saving medical care.

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8
Foundation for Argentinean Development
Philanthropy
9
Puente De Amistad Inc

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.

Human Services
10
Productores De Cafe De Puerto Rico Inc

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…

Human Services
11
Fideicomiso De Tierras Comunitarias Para La Agricultura Sostenible

Our mission is to support food security for the people of Puerto Rico by protecting farmland in perpetuity as a commons and securing just and equitable access to the land to low-income, landless ecological farmers.

Food & Nutrition
12
Habitat for Humanity of Puerto Rico Inc

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.

—
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Haser Inc; 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.
05the grantee network

27 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. 27 of the 146 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
26/27
Grantees still filing
16/27
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

+131 more: $2,340,106 · Other+131 moreBUILDING MARKETS LTD: $280,000 · InternationalBUILDING MARKETS LTDAMERICAN NEAR EAST REFUGEE AID: $250,000 · InternationalAMERICAN NEAR EAST RE…WAYUU TAYA FOUNDATIONINC: $100,000 · InternationalWAYUU TAYA FOUNDATION…YACHTAID GLOBAL: $55,000 · InternationalYACHTAID GLOBALHAITIAN HEALTH FOUNDATION: $50,000 · InternationalHAITIAN HEALTH FOUNDA…FABRETTO CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC: $40,000 · InternationalMINISTERIO BUEN SAMARITANO MARC MARCOS A RIVERA CORDOVA INC: $525,000 · ReligionMINISTERIO BUE…BIPARTISAN POLICY CENTER INC: $250,000 · Public BenefitBokitas Foundation Inc: $100,000 · Food & NutritionDEPARTAMENTO DE LA COMIDA DE PUERTO RICO INC: $28,800 · Human ServicesCharlotte Area Fund Inc: $25,000 · Human ServicesEAST SIDE NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesCENTRO DEAMBULANTES CRISTO POBRE INC: $12,750 · Human ServicesHERO FOUNDATION INC: $35,000 · Public Safety & DisasterFOOTPRINT PROJECT: $7,500 · Public Safety & Disaster
Other$2,340,106International$775,000Religion$525,000Public Benefit$250,000Food & Nutrition$100,000Human Services$91,550Public Safety & Disaster$42,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMINISTERIO BUEN SAMARITANO MARC MARCOS A RIVERA CORDOVA INC: $525,000 over 2y, 34% of budgetBUILDING MARKETS LTD: $280,000 over 1y, 6.8% of budgetAMERICAN NEAR EAST REFUGEE AID: $250,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBIPARTISAN POLICY CENTER INC: $250,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetWAYUU TAYA FOUNDATIONINC: $100,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetBokitas Foundation Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 27% of budgetYACHTAID GLOBAL: $55,000 over 1y, 8.9% of budgetHAITIAN HEALTH FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetFABRETTO CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC: $40,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetHERO FOUNDATION INC: $35,000 over 1y, 9.6% of budgetCharlotte Area Fund Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetJACQUES PEPIN FOUNDATION THE: $25,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetEAST SIDE NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHASER Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetCOLECTIVO EL ANCON DE LOIZA INC: $20,000 over 1y, 28% of budgetOFF THEIR PLATE INC: $18,747 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetMY BROTHERS WORKSHOP INC: $18,400 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTHE ST GEORGE VILLAGE BOTANICAL GARDEN OF ST CROIX INC: $13,400 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetCENTRO DEAMBULANTES CRISTO POBRE INC: $12,750 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetCORPORACION DE SERVICIOS DE SALUD Y DESARROLLO SOCIOECONOMICO EL OTOAO: $10,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetFOOTPRINT PROJECT: $7,500 over 1y, 6.8% of budgetLatam Freedom & Development Foundation Inc: $6,000 over 1y, 6.5% 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.

  • 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 Charlotte Area Fund Inc ↗
  • Who funds JACQUES PEPIN FOUNDATION THE ↗
  • Who funds EAST SIDE NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds FUNDACIN LUIS MUOZ MARIN 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.

Hispanic Federation I…Para la Naturaleza IncPeter Alfond Foundati…Puerto Rico Community…The Pfizer Foundation…Paypal Charitable Giv…National Philanthropi…The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…Morgan Stanley Global…American Online Givin…Network for Good
Hispanic Federation IncNY16.8× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 World Central Kitchen Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from World Central Kitchen Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    3get no government money at all
    8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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 146 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.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $35M 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 FY2023, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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