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World Learning Inc

Creating a more sustainable, peaceful, and just world through education, development, and exchange since 1932.

$8.2M
Granted FY2025still arriving
127
Grants FY2025still arriving
43
States reached
$1.2M
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 2025.

International$25MEducation$22MPublic Benefit$2.5MHealth$792kYouth Development$790kScience & Tech$539kHuman Services$503kCommunity Improvement$475kOther$0
02FY2025 · 127 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 127 grants below total $5,274,054, the rows itemized in this filing. The $8,174,785 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $2,900,731 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 · FY2025

  • Under $10k11 grants · $82k
  • $10k–50k102 grants · $2.4M
  • $50k–250k12 grants · $994k
  • $250k+2 grants · $1.8M
$20,901
Median grant
43
States reached
$72M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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 (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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Focus Points Family Resource Center: $10k → 12%Focus Points Family Resource Center: $9k → 12%ETHIOPIAN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL INC (ECDC): $186k → 7%Ethiopian Community Development Council Inc: $142k → 7%Ethiopian Community Development Council Inc: $35k → 7%United States International Council on Disabilities: $50k → 14%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

AK
ME
VT
NH
WA
ID
MT
ND
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
NV
WY
SD
IA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
UT
CO
NE
MO
KY
WV
VA
MD
DE
AZ
NM
KS
AR
TN
NC
SC
DC
HI
OK
LA
MS
AL
GA
TX
FL

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.

Europe (including Iceland and Greenland)$558k · 31% · 1 grant · 132 people

Stated purpose: PARTICIPANT EXCHANGES · SCHOLARSHIPS/SMALL GRANTS

South America$312k · 18% · 2 grants · 58 people

Stated purpose: YOUTH AMBASSADORS PROGRAM · SCHOLARSHIPS

Middle East and North Africa$298k · 17% · 5 grants · 84 people

Stated purpose: PARTICIPANT EXCHANGES · EDUCATION · SCHOLARSHIPS/SMALL GRANTS

Sub-Saharan Africa$207k · 12% · 70 people

Stated purpose: SCHOLARSHIPS/SMALL GRANTS

East Asia and the Pacific$141k · 8% · 50 people

Stated purpose: SCHOLARSHIPS/SMALL GRANTS

Russia and Neighboring States$137k · 8% · 1 grant · 16 people

Stated purpose: EDUCATION · SMALL GRANTS

South Asia$65k · 4% · 25 people

Stated purpose: SCHOLARSHIPS/SMALL GRANTS

North America (Canada and Mexico)$32k · 2% · 11 people

Stated purpose: SCHOLARSHIPS

Central America and the Caribbean$25k · 1% · 9 people

Stated purpose: SCHOLARSHIPS/SMALL 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. 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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$50M · 184 repeat orgs$2.9M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +18% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

184
49

Total granted

$50M
$1.9M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%
0%

Still filing today

48%
49%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M 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
EducationInternationalArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY
    8× · 2018–2025 · $8.0M · revenue +44%
  • IR
    International Rescue Committee INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $2.9M · revenue +63%
  • IR
    INTERNATIONAL REPUBLICAN INSTITUTE
    6× · 2017–2022 · $2.2M · revenue +31%

Funded once

  • UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGHgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $330k · revenue +40%
  • CR
    CATHOLIC RELIEF SERVICES
    one grant, 2017 · $198k
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS
    one grant, 2018 · $114k
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
Lehigh University

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…

Education
2
The George Washington University

The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…

Education
3
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
4
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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5
Arcadia University

Arcadia university's pioneering, global, integrated, liberal arts, and professional learning experience cultivates leaders who are intellectually fearless and uniquely prepared for life and work. our highly regarded, values-based learning…

Education
6
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
7
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
8
Point Park University

Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…

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9
Webster University

Founded in 1915, webster is a private non-profit and global university that is committed to delivering high-quality learning experiences that transform students for global citizenship and individual excellence.

Education
10
Aacsb International - the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business

Aacsb international provides quality assurance of business school programs, the latest in business education intelligence, thought leadership, and learning and development services.

Education
11
DePauw University

Depauw university develops leaders the world needs through an uncommon commitment to the liberal arts. depauw's diverse and inclusive learning and living experience, distinctive in its rigorous intellectual engagement and its global and…

Education
12
Augustana College

Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Widener University; 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.
04the grantee network

134 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. 134 of the 282 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)
20
Early backer (in before they grew)
133/134
Grantees still filing
85/134
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS INTERNATIONAL: $7,249,062 · OtherMANAGEMENT SYSTEMS INTERNATIONALTeaching Institute for Excellence in STEM: $784,372 · OtherRECTOR & VISITORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA: $620,537 · OtherIndiana University School of Medicine: $589,907 · Other+113 more: $7,989,279 · Other+113 moreGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $7,958,072 · EducationGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITYINTERNATIONAL REPUBLICAN INSTITUTE: $2,194,044 · EducationINTERNATIONAL REPUBLICAN INSTITUTENew York University: $1,353,345 · EducationNew York University21ST CENTURY PARTNERSHIP FOR STEM EDUCATION: $749,940 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA ALUMNI ASSOCIATION: $693,573 · EducationDUKE UNIVERSITY: $613,532 · Education+44 more: $2,504,764 · Education+44 moreAmigos de las Americas: $4,696,884 · InternationalAmigos de las AmericasAMIDEAST: $2,911,610 · InternationalAMIDEASTInternational Rescue Committee INC: $2,909,674 · InternationalInternational Rescue Committee INCHANDICAP INTERNATIONAL: $1,111,256 · InternationalHANDICAP INTERNATIONALWorld Affairs Council of Oregon dba WorldOregon: $609,827 · InternationalCLEVELAND COUNCIL ON WORLD AFFAIRS: $595,229 · International+18 more: $2,923,252 · International+18 moreTHE FRANKLIN INSTITUTE: $414,601 · Arts & CultureINTERNATIONAL FOCUS INC: $369,388 · Arts & CultureWorld Affairs Council of Kentucky S: $199,679 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $30,691 · Arts & CultureMOMENTUM WHEELS FOR HUMANITY: $582,109 · HealthNATIONAL TUBEROUS SCLEROSIS ASSOCIATION: $199,935 · HealthETHIOPIAN COMMUNITY DEV COUNCIL INC: $362,455 · Human ServicesUNITED STATES INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL ON DISABILITIES: $50,475 · Human ServicesNATIONAL CENTER FOR CIVIC INNOVATION IN: $328,012 · Community Improvement
Other$17,233,157Education$16,067,270International$15,757,732Arts & Culture$1,014,359Health$782,044Human Services$412,930Community Improvement$328,012

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $7,958,072 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetAmigos de las Americas: $4,696,884 over 8y, 21% of budgetAMIDEAST: $2,911,610 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $2,909,674 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetINTERNATIONAL REPUBLICAN INSTITUTE: $2,194,044 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetNew York University: $1,353,345 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHANDICAP INTERNATIONAL: $1,111,256 over 3y, 1.8% of budget21ST CENTURY PARTNERSHIP FOR STEM EDUCATION: $749,940 over 2y, 73% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA ALUMNI ASSOCIATION: $693,573 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY: $613,532 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetWorld Affairs Council of Oregon dba WorldOregon: $609,827 over 8y, 16% of budgetCLEVELAND COUNCIL ON WORLD AFFAIRS: $595,229 over 9y, 13% of budgetMOMENTUM WHEELS FOR HUMANITY: $582,109 over 2y, 7.3% of budgetCOOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC: $506,391 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE FRANKLIN INSTITUTE: $414,601 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetGLOBAL TIES KC INC: $388,914 over 8y, 23% of budgetINTERNATIONAL FOCUS INC: $369,388 over 8y, 16% of budgetETHIOPIAN COMMUNITY DEV COUNCIL INC: $362,455 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $330,382 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL CENTER FOR CIVIC INNOVATION IN: $328,012 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetVERMONT COUNCIL ON WORLD AFFAIRS INC: $301,470 over 7y, 21% of budgetWORLD AFFAIRS COUNCIL: $298,360 over 6y, 6.3% of budgetNORTHERN NEVADA INTERNATIONAL CENTER: $241,381 over 6y, 3.7% of budgetCOLLEAGUES INTERNATIONAL: $240,382 over 7y, 16% of budgetFoundation for International Understanding Through: $224,283 over 7y, 5.8% of budgetChico State Enterprises: $222,167 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL TUBEROUS SCLEROSIS ASSOCIATION: $199,935 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetWorld Affairs Council of Kentucky S: $199,679 over 6y, 14% of budgetGLOBALJAX INC: $198,777 over 6y, 39% of budgetLEGACY INTERNATIONAL: $195,198 over 2y, 14% of budgetDENVER WORLD AFFAIRS COUNCIL DBA WORLDDE: $181,139 over 5y, 5.9% of budgetIRIS INC: $140,102 over 5y, 8.8% of budgetThe Research Foundation for The State University of New York: $135,214 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC: $127,884 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRochester Global Connections Inc: $122,652 over 5y, 12% of budgetINTERNATIONAL VISITORS COUNCIL OF METROPOLITAN DETROIT INC: $113,901 over 2y, 17% of budgetInternational Visitors Utah Council: $112,604 over 6y, 5.2% of budgetMOREHOUSE COLLEGE: $93,988 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTrustees of Dartmouth College: $93,355 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD VISION INC: $93,056 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Albuquerque Council for International Visitors: $90,759 over 2y, 16% of budgetPOPULATION SERVICES INTERNATIONAL: $80,984 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetARAB AMERICAN WOMENS BUSINESS COUNC: $76,365 over 4y, 23% of budgetGULF COAST CITIZEN DIPLOMACY COUNCIL INC: $72,810 over 2y, 18% of budgetPACIFIC UNIVERSITY: $70,001 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTUTORIAL CENTER INC: $62,022 over 3y, 3.9% of budgetPEACETECH LAB INC: $58,000 over 2y, 4.8% of budgetGALLAUDET UNIVERSITY: $55,440 over 4y, 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 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 ↗

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.

Global Ties USNational Collegiate A…American Chemical Soc…Folds of Honor Founda…American Association …Meridian Internationa…National Collegiate I…Corporation for Publi…Hispanic Scholarship …Tulsa Community Found…American Council of L…Strada Education Foun…
Global Ties USDC66.8× affinity30 shared granteesties to 5 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
19report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely 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 282 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home