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World Childrens Fund

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$365k
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$140k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
0183% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

International$21MHealth$15MReligion$181kArts & Culture$140kHuman Services$94kRecreation & Sports$16kCivil Rights$655Education$300Other$0
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $3k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $222k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $140k
$24,124
Median grant
1
States reached
$181k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WORLD CHILDRENS FUND$140,143
NADACHE SVETOVEHO FONDU DETI$46,714
WORLD CHILDREN'S FUND - AT$46,714
Individual grant recipient$40,280
THE INTERNATIONAL CHARITABLE BABY F$24,124
Associazone Umanitaria Per 1 Bambi$17,036
WORLD CHILDRENS FUND$17,036
MEDICAL MISSION INTERNATIONAL$15,000
Nora Lam Ministries$15,000
Individual grant recipient$3,220
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.

US giving: 5% of grant dollars ($1.8M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 95% that went abroad ($35M) is mapped below.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 91% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%Asia Center Foundation: $6k → 11%Medical Mission International - DE: $40k → 14%Nora Lam Ministries: $269k → 8%BESTWA: $563k → 11%Agir Pour Les Enfants Du Monde: $7k → 14%National Religious Broadcasters: $150 → 14%SAVE THE CHILDREN: $24k → 9%SCLC Martin Luther King Jr Poor People's Campaign Inc: $327 → 13%MOTHER TERESA CHILDRENS FOUNDATION - IT: $210 → 6%Misso Mdica Internacional: $47k → 7%Asia Center Foundation: $4k → 11%Medical Mission International - DE: $10k → 14%Nora Lam Ministries: $195k → 8%Agir Pour Les Enfants Du Monde: $1k → 14%SCLC Martin Luther King Jr Poor People's Campaign Inc: $178 → 13%Misso Mdica Internacional: $40k → 7%ASIA CENTER FOUNDATION: $1k → 11%World Children's Fund Deutschland eV: $279 → 14%Nora Lam Ministries: $190k → 8%Mission Medicale Internationale: $54 → 14%SCLC Martin Luther King Jr Poor People's Campaign Inc: $150 → 13%Misso Mdica Internacional: $31k → 7%ASIA CENTER FOUNDATION: $845 → 11%World Children's Fund Deutschland eV: $107 → 14%NORA LAM MINISTRIES: $174k → 8%Mission Medicale Internationale: $51 → 14%Misso Mdica Internacional: $29k → 7%ASIA CENTER FOUNDATION: $296 → 11%Medical Mission International - DE: $96 → 14%NORA LAM MINISTRIES: $155k → 8%Mission Medicale Internationale: $25 → 14%Misso Mdica Internacional: $23k → 7%ASIA CENTER FOUNDATION: $54 → 11%NORA LAM MINISTRIES: $112k → 8%Misso Mdica Internacional: $18k → 7%Medical Mission International: $39k → 8%Medical Mission International: $22k → 8%MISCELLANEOUS UNDER 5k: $16k → 8%Nora Lam Ministries: $15k → 8%MEDICAL MISSION INTERNATIONAL: $15k → 8%MEDICAL MISSION INTERNATIONAL: $8k → 8%Peace for the Persecuted: $16 → 8%Peace for the Persecuted: $14 → 8%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
CT
CA
VA
NC
DC
GA
TX

Beyond the US: 95% of all-years giving ($35M)

21 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

grant dollars sentlessmore
Sierra Leone$22M · 3 grants
Honduras$10M · 1 grant
United Kingdom$1.1M · 22 grants
Czechia$457k · 16 grants
Austria$394k · 14 grants
Italy$319k · 11 grants
Brazil$188k · 6 grants
Zimbabwe$169k · 1 grant
Malawi$161k · 1 grant
Germany$52k · 11 grants
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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

60%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$22M · 37 repeat orgs$15M to everyone else

37 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 30 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

37
16

Total granted

$22M
$14M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-8%
+204%

Still filing today

5%
13%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 52% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $174k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
ReligionInternationalPhilanthropyOther
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

  • MA
    Mercy and Hope International
    2× · 2017–2018 · $18M
  • NL
    Nora Lam Chinese Ministries Int'l
    7× · 2017–2025 · $1.1M
  • WC
    WORLD CHILDRENS FUND - UK
    8× · 2017–2024 · $870k

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $10M
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2019 · $3.9M
  • SH
    SPIRITAGE HELP TRUST
    one grant, 2022 · $169k
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
04the grantee network

6 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. 6 of the 56 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
5/6
Grantees still filing
4/6
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Mercy and Hope International: $17,822,570 · OtherMercy and Hope InternationalIndividual grant recipient: $10,175,255 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $3,917,055 · OtherIndividual grant recipient+47 more: $3,629,405 · Other+47 moreNora Lam Chinese Ministries Int'l: $1,109,852 · ReligionMEDICAL MISSION INTERNATIONAL - USA: $83,486 · Religion+1 more: $150 · ReligionSave The Children Federation Inc: $23,900 · InternationalWORLD VISION INC: $9,778 · InternationalPEACE FOR THE PERSECUTED: $30 · Philanthropy
Other$35,544,285Religion$1,193,488International$33,678Philanthropy$30

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 budgetNora Lam Chinese Ministries Int'l: $1,109,852 over 7y, 3.1% of budgetMEDICAL MISSION INTERNATIONAL - USA: $83,486 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $23,900 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD VISION INC: $9,778 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetPEACE FOR THE PERSECUTED: $30 over 2y, 0.0% 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 Nora Lam Chinese Ministries Int'l ↗
  • Who funds MEDICAL MISSION INTERNATIONAL - USA ↗
  • Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
  • Who funds WORLD VISION INC ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization World Childrens Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from World Childrens Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

2023
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 27%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 27% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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.
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Find your warmest path to World Childrens Fund through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 56 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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