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World Group Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$209k
Granted FY2025still arriving
29
Grants FY2025still arriving
13
States reached
$83k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20242025.

Arts & Culture$208kRecreation & Sports$50kEnvironment$32kEducation$11kHealth$11kHuman Services$10kInternational$6kPhilanthropy$5kOther$0
02FY2025 · 29 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k26 grants · $51k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $133k
$1,000
Median grant
13
States reached
$461k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NATIONAL MUSEUM OF THE GREAT LAKES$82,500
CLEVELAND METROPARKS$50,000
THE NATURE CONSERVANCY$25,000
SAINT MARTIN DE PORRES HIGH SCHOOL$9,300
WESTERN RESERVE LAND CONSERVANCY$7,200
SAMARITAN'S PURSE$4,500
THE NICOLE WILCOX FOUNDATION$4,000
HONEY FROM THE ROCK$3,000
DANCE FOR THE CURE$2,000
MISSION METROPLEX INC$2,000
PINK RIBBON GOOD INC$2,000
VALLEY GIRLS AND GUYS$2,000
ASSOCIACAO AMARCURA$1,500
REDE FEMININA DE COMBA$1,500
BREAST CANCER HUB$1,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY24–25, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF GREATER CINCINNATI: $500 → 16%HONEY FROM THE ROCK: $3k → 17%MAY DUGAN CENTER: $500 → 17%MAY DUGAN CENTER: $500 → 17%THE GATHERING PLACE: $1k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

WA
MN
OH
NJ
MO
VA
TN
NC
SC
OK
AL
GA
TX

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

69%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$214k · 3 repeat orgs$96k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +137% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

3 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 25 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
25

Total granted

$214k
$96k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+137%
0%

Still filing today

67%
68%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $96k went to new ones.

50%100%’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’24’25
Human ServicesHealthPhilanthropyHousing & ShelterReligionEducationOther

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

  • NM
    NATIONAL MUSEUM OF THE GREAT LAKES
    2× · 2024–2025 · $208k
  • SP
    SAMARITAN'S PURSE
    2× · 2024–2025 · $6k · revenue 0%
  • NW
    Near Westside MultiService Corp
    2× · 2024–2025 · $1k · revenue +137%

Funded once

  • CM
    CLEVELAND METROPARKS
    one grant, 2025 · $50k
  • SM
    Saint Martin de Porres High School
    one grant, 2025 · $9k · revenue 0%
  • WR
    WESTERN RESERVE LAND CONSERVANCY
    one grant, 2025 · $7k · revenue 0%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Trinity Health System Group

As an affiliate of commonspirit health, we make the healing presence of god known in our world by improving the health of the people we serve, especially those who are vulnerable, while we advance social justice for all.

2
St Vincent Hospital of the Hospital Sisters of the Third Order of St Franci s

To continue christ's healing love through delivery of competent & compassionate healthcare in an environment sensitive to the needs of all people. the hospital is committed to providing a broad range of quality inpatient and outpatient…

Health
3
The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc

Susan g. komen has an unmatched, comprehensive 360-degree approach to fighting breast cancer across all fronts and supporting millions of people in the u.s. and in countries worldwide. we advocate for policies to protect patients, drive…

Health
4
The Rose

The mission of the rose is saving lives through quality breast health services, advocacy and access to care for all.

5
The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Fdn Group

Susan g. komen 's mission is to save lives by meeting the most critical needs in our communities & investing in breakthrough research to prevent & cure breast cancer.

6
The Nebraska Medical Center

The Nebraska Medical Center (TNMC)'s mission is to lead the world in transforming lives to create a healthy future for individuals and communities through premier educational programs, innovative research, and extraordinary patient care.

Health
7
SISTER2SISTER

Breast cancer is the second leading cause of cancer death after lung cancer in women in the us overall, but its the leading cause of cancer death in black and hispanic women. geographical disparities in breast cancer incidence and…

Health
8
My Cancer Haven
Health
9
We Beat Cancer
Philanthropy
10
Integris Health Inc

Partnering with people to live healthier lives.

Health
11
Trihealth Physician Institute

Provides the community necessary medical care through specialty physicians.

Health
12
The Cleveland Clinic Foundation Group Return

Caring for life, researching for health and educating those who serve.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Pink Ribbon Good Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Northern Tool Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 27 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%14%<5yr12%9%5–10yr21%18%10–20yr14%23%20–35yr16%18%35–55yr20%18%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%6%<5yr12%7%5–10yr21%8%10–20yr14%16%20–35yr16%13%35–55yr20%50%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 14% of your grantees by number, and just 6% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/23
the rest of the field
11%
8,037/74,283

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.

04the grantee network

20 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 20 of the 29 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/20
Grantees still filing
6/20
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

NATIONAL MUSEUM OF THE GREAT LAKES — $207,500 · OtherNATIONAL MUSEUM OF THE GREAT LAKESCLEVELAND METROPARKS — $50,000 · OtherCLEVELAND METROPARKSTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $25,000 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY+11 more — $14,000 · OtherSaint Martin de Porres High School — $9,300 · EducationWESTERN RESERVE LAND CONSERVANCY — $7,200 · EnvironmentVALLEY GIRLS & GUYS — $2,000 · HealthPINK RIBBON GOOD INC — $2,000 · HealthCANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY OF GREATER ST LOUIS — $1,000 · HealthCANDLER FOUNDATION INC — $1,000 · HealthBREAST CANCER HUB CORPORATION — $1,000 · HealthHONEY FROM THE ROCK LLC — $3,000 · Human ServicesSHARE OUR SUZY LOWCOUNTRY — $1,000 · Human ServicesTHE GATHERING PLACE — $1,000 · Human ServicesNear Westside MultiService Corp — $1,000 · Human ServicesRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF GREATER CINCINNATI INC — $500 · Human ServicesSAMARITAN'S PURSE — $5,500 · ReligionMISSION METROPLEX INC — $2,000 · PhilanthropyThe Northern Tool Foundation — $1,000 · Philanthropy
Other$296,500Education$9,300Environment$7,200Health$7,000Human Services$6,500Religion$5,500Philanthropy$3,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSaint Martin de Porres High School — $9,300 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWESTERN RESERVE LAND CONSERVANCY — $7,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE — $5,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHONEY FROM THE ROCK LLC — $3,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetTHE GATHERING PLACE — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY OF GREATER ST LOUIS — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Northern Tool Foundation — $1,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetCANDLER FOUNDATION INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBREAST CANCER HUB CORPORATION — $1,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetTHE METANOIA PROJECT — $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
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.

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.

Community West FoundationOH13.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community West Foundation · Akron Community Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Group Foundation 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 9%
  • Tulsa Day Center Inc9% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get 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 · 0–30%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to World Group Foundation?

Find your warmest path to World Group Foundation 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 29 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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