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World Connect Inc

World connect activates power inside communities by co-investing with them to advance development on their terms, supporting a virtuous cycle of development that drives effective and sustained progress from inside communities.

$499k
Granted FY2024still arriving
5
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its 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, FY2023 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$110kPhilanthropy$100kHuman Services$60kEducation$50kYouth Development$50kHealth$40kEnvironment$25kCrime & Legal$25kOther$0
02FY2024 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 5 grants below total $125,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $499,056 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $374,056 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.
$25,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNDOCUMENTED WOMEN'S FUND$25,000
FLEX DANCE PROGRAM INC$25,000
ALL KINGS PROJECT INC$25,000
CAMBIO LABS$25,000
OYATE GROUP$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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY23–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 83% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%ARTISTIC NOISE INC: $25k → 8%TOOLS AND TIARAS INC: $20k → 9%CONNECTFAITH INC: $25k → 9%CAMBIO LABS: $25k → 13%INTER-RELIGIOUS FOUNDATION FOR: $25k → 17%ARCTURUS COMMUNITY ENDEAVORS INC: $25k → 20%OYATE GROUP: $25k → 28%ALLIED MEDIA PROJECTS INC: $35k → 21%JAZZ PASSENGERS MUSIC PROJECTS: $25k → 7%URBAN JUSTICE CENTER: $25k → 17%ALL KINGS PROJECT INC: $25k → 20%MOSHOLU MONTEFIORE COMMUNITY CENTER: $25k → 28%FLEX DANCE PROGRAM INC: $25k → 17%NAVIGATE THE MAZE TO ACHIEVEMENT: $25k → 20%QI ZONE: $15k → 28%MUSIC ART PUPPETS: $25k → 17%SURE WE CAN INC: $25k → 20%UNDOCUMENTED WOMEN'S FUND: $25k → 17%BRUJAS OF BROOKLYN LLC: $10k → 20%UPTOWN & BOOGIE HEALTHY PROJECT INC: $25k → 17%BLACK WOMENS BLUEPRINTS INC: $6k → 20%FUND FOR THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $75k → 17%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.

Grants abroad, by region: $372k on the FY2024 return

Schedule F, as filed: 2 regions. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

Sub-Saharan Africa$320k · 86% · 3 grants

Stated purpose: SUPPORT PROGRAMMING

South America$51k · 14% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: SUPPORT PROGRAMMING

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 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
Urban Youth Alliance Internationalinc

To encompass a faith community based program that offers alternatives to detention, incarceration by connecting court-involved youth with positive resources in the local community. Provide supportive community services to justice-involved…

Education
2
Brooklyn Arts Exchange Inc

Bax/brooklyn arts exchange is a multigenerational arts organization nurturing creative expression and artistic process through education, residencies, and performance at the intersection of arts and social justice.

Arts & Culture
3
Young New Yorkers Inc

Founded in 2012, young new yorkers' restorative art diversion programs allow young people to exit the criminal legal system, have their cases dismissed and sealed, and avoid a life-long criminal record. in addition, our graduate programs…

Crime & Legal
4
Ai for the People Inc

Ai for the people uses art, film and culture to encourage content producers, journalists, policymakers and advocates to embed racial justice into all public conversations about technology.

Civil Rights
5
The Dreamyard Project Inc

The dreamyard project, inc. (dreamyard) is an arts and social justice organization dedicated to working with bronx youth, families, and schools to build pathways toward equity and opportunity.

Arts & Culture
6
Naturally Occurring Cultural Districts Ny Inc

NOCD-NY is a citywide alliance of cultural networks and community leaders that have joined together to revitalize New York City from the neighborhood up. NOCD-NY came together in 2010 in response to the vision, sustained needs, and…

Human Services
7
Music On the Inside Inc

To connect youth and adults impacted by incarceration with professional musicians as teachers and mentors to bring hope and healing through a shared love of music.

Arts & Culture
8
Afrikan Poetry Theatre Inc

The Afrikan Poetry Theatres APT mission is to preserve and perpetuate Art Culture and the Traditions of the African Diaspora through creative programming Including but not limited to; theatre film music dance spoken word,Youth S.T.E.A.M,3D…

Arts & Culture
9
Project Performing Arts Inc

Provide high quality low cost performing arts classes to underserved children in Harlem and the surrounding neigborhoods.

Arts & Culture
10
Magic Box Productions Inc

The organization provides exemplary media workshops that helps students bridge the digital divide. we provide opportunities for creative expression, community and cultural connections and accesss to new technologies to more than 18,000…

Youth Development
11
Roulette Intermedium Inc

Roulettes mission is to support artists and present performances of innovative music, movement, and media art; build audiences interested in experiencing new work; and trace the evolution of experimental performance in a freely accessible…

Arts & Culture
12
Arts & Business Council of New York Inc

The Arts & Business Council of New York stimulates partnerships between the arts and business that strengthen both sectors in the communities they serve. This is accomplished through programs that promote voluntarism, build arts management…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fund for the City of New York Inc; the most unlike its peers is Connectfaith Inc. 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

17 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. 17 of the 22 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/17
Grantees still filing
9/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ALLIED MEDIA PROJECTS INC: $35,000 · Arts & CultureALLIED MEDIA PROJECTS INCJAZZ PASSENGERS MUSIC PROJECTS INC: $25,000 · Arts & CultureJAZZ PASSENGERS MUSIC PROJE…FLEX DANCE PROGRAM INC: $25,000 · Arts & CultureFLEX DANCE PROGRAM INCCONNECTFAITH INC: $25,000 · Arts & CultureCONNECTFAITH INCMUSIC ART PUPPET SOUND INC: $25,000 · Arts & CultureMUSIC ART PUPPET SOUND INCUNDOCUMENTED WOMENS FUND: $25,000 · OtherUNDOCUMENTED WOMENS FUNDUPTOWN & BOOGIE HEALTHY PROJECT INC: $25,000 · OtherUPTOWN & BOOGIE HEALTHY PROJECT INCARCTURUS COMMUNITY ENDEAVORS INC: $25,000 · OtherARCTURUS COMMUNITY ENDEAVORS INCURBAN JUSTICE CENTER: $25,000 · OtherURBAN JUSTICE CENTERQI ZONE: $15,000 · OtherQI ZONEBRUJAS OF BROOKLYN LLC: $10,000 · OtherAll Kings Project Inc: $25,000 · OtherAll Kings Project IncMOSHOLU MONTEFIORE COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $25,000 · OtherMOSHOLU MONTEFIORE COMMUNITY CENTER INCINTERRELIGIOUS FOUNDATION FOR COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION: $25,000 · OtherINTERRELIGIOUS FOUNDATION FOR COMMUNITY ORGAN…TOOLS & TIARAS INC: $20,000 · OtherTOOLS & TIARAS INC+1 more: $6,000 · OtherFUND FOR THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC: $75,000 · PhilanthropyFUND FOR THE CI…NAVIGATE THE MAZE TO ACHIEVEMENT INC: $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentNAVIGATE T…OYATE GROUP: $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentOYATE GROU…Sure We Can Inc: $25,000 · EnvironmentCAMBIO LABS CO: $25,000 · EducationARTISTIC NOISE INC: $25,000 · Crime & Legal
Arts & Culture$135,000Other$226,000Philanthropy$75,000Youth Development$50,000Environment$25,000Education$25,000Crime & Legal$25,000

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 budgetFUND FOR THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC: $75,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetALLIED MEDIA PROJECTS INC: $35,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSure We Can Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetJAZZ PASSENGERS MUSIC PROJECTS INC: $25,000 over 1y, 22% of budgetFLEX DANCE PROGRAM INC: $25,000 over 1y, 37% of budgetNAVIGATE THE MAZE TO ACHIEVEMENT INC: $25,000 over 1y, 35% of budgetCONNECTFAITH INC: $25,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetCAMBIO LABS CO: $25,000 over 1y, 8.3% of budgetARTISTIC NOISE INC: $25,000 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetAll Kings Project Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetMOSHOLU MONTEFIORE COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMUSIC ART PUPPET SOUND INC: $25,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetURBAN JUSTICE CENTER: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetINTERRELIGIOUS FOUNDATION FOR COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION: $25,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetOYATE GROUP: $25,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetTOOLS & TIARAS INC: $20,000 over 1y, 7.5% of budgetTHE RECONCILIATION CENTER INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

Brooklyn Community Fo…The Hyde and Watson F…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Brooklyn Community FoundationNY15.5× affinity5 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Brooklyn Community Foundation · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 World Connect Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from World Connect Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
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no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    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 22 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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