· Public charity
World Learning Inc
Creating a more sustainable, peaceful, and just world through education, development, and exchange since 1932.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 127 grants below total $5,274,054 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $8,174,785 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $2,900,731 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 · FY2025
- Under $10k11 grants · $82k
- $10k–50k102 grants · $2.4M
- $50k–250k12 grants · $994k
- $250k+2 grants · $1.8M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY | $1,213,955 |
| AMIGOS DE LAS AMERICAS | $606,712 |
| ETHIOPIAN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL INC (ECDC) | $185,949 |
| UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA | $116,295 |
| MANAGEMENT SYSTEM INTERNATIONAL INC | $103,262 |
| NATIONAL CENTER FOR CIVIC INNOVATION INC (NCCI) | $96,900 |
| VERMONT COUNCIL ON WORLD AFFAIRS | $80,853 |
| CLEVELAND COUNCIL ON WORLD AFFAIRS | $68,629 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND | $62,973 |
| WORLD AFFAIRS COUNCIL OF SEATTLE | $62,263 |
| FOUNDATION FOR INTERNATIONAL UNDERSTANDING THROUGH STUDENTS | $60,416 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING | $53,487 |
| COLLEAGUES INTERNATIONAL | $51,570 |
| WORLD AFFAIRS COUNCIL OF ARIZONA | $51,164 |
| WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY | $49,182 |
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 (FY17–25, $432k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 16% 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 — $1.8M on the FY2025 return
Schedule F, as filed: 9 regions, $559k to organizations and $1.2M to individuals. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.
Stated purpose: PARTICIPANT EXCHANGES · SCHOLARSHIPS/SMALL GRANTS
Stated purpose: YOUTH AMBASSADORS PROGRAM · SCHOLARSHIPS
Stated purpose: PARTICIPANT EXCHANGES · EDUCATION · SCHOLARSHIPS/SMALL GRANTS
Stated purpose: SCHOLARSHIPS/SMALL GRANTS
Stated purpose: SCHOLARSHIPS/SMALL GRANTS
Stated purpose: EDUCATION · SMALL GRANTS
Stated purpose: SCHOLARSHIPS/SMALL GRANTS
Stated purpose: SCHOLARSHIPS
Stated purpose: SCHOLARSHIPS/SMALL GRANTS
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +17% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
184 repeat relationships — 80 still active in FY2025, 104 since wound down; 44 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M 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
GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY8× · 2018–2025 · $8.0M · revenue +44%- IRInternational Rescue Committee INC5× · 2020–2024 · $2.9M · revenue +63%
- IRINTERNATIONAL REPUBLICAN INSTITUTE6× · 2017–2022 · $2.2M · revenue +129%
Funded once
UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGHgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $330k · revenue +40%- CRCATHOLIC RELIEF SERVICESone grant, 2017 · $198k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTSone grant, 2018 · $114k
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.
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
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The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
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To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Widener University and the most unlike its peers is Soul of Nations Inc Soul of Nations (Son) Foundation. 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 53 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.4% 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.
134 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. 134 of the 282 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Amigos de las Americas ↗
- Who funds AMIDEAST ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL REPUBLICAN INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds New York University ↗
- Who funds HANDICAP INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds 21ST CENTURY PARTNERSHIP FOR STEM EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA ALUMNI ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds World Affairs Council of Oregon dba WorldOregon ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND COUNCIL ON WORLD AFFAIRS ↗
- Who funds MOMENTUM WHEELS FOR HUMANITY ↗
- Who funds COOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC ↗
- Who funds THE FRANKLIN INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL TIES KC INC ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL FOCUS INC ↗
- Who funds ETHIOPIAN COMMUNITY DEV COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CENTER FOR CIVIC INNOVATION IN ↗
- Who funds VERMONT COUNCIL ON WORLD AFFAIRS INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD AFFAIRS COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN NEVADA INTERNATIONAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds COLLEAGUES INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds Foundation for International Understanding Through ↗
- Who funds Chico State Enterprises ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL TUBEROUS SCLEROSIS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds World Affairs Council of Kentucky S ↗
- Who funds GLOBALJAX 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: Global Ties US · National Collegiate Athletic Association · American Chemical Society · Folds of Honor Foundation · American Association of Community Colleges · Meridian International Center · National Collegiate Inventors & Innovators Alliance Inc · Corporation for Public Broadcasting · Hispanic Scholarship Fund · Tulsa Community Foundation · American Council of Learned Societies · Strada Education Foundation Inc
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 Learning 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Tutorial Center Inc — 71% of income from government
- Florida Memorial University Inc — 11% of income from government
- World Trade Center Institute Inc — 9% of income from government
- The University of Tulsa — 5% of income from government
- Pacific University — 2% of income from government
- Fairleigh Dickinson University — 2% of income from government
- Regis College — 2% of income from government
- The Poynter Institute for Media Studies Inc — 1% of income from government
- The Trustees of Mount Holyoke College — 1% of income from government
- World Affairs Council of Oregon dba WorldOregon — 0% of income from government
- Vermont Council On World Affairs Inc — 0% of income from government
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.