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World of Children Inc

The world of children is dedicated to dramatically improving children's lives by identifying and recognizing extraordinary individuals who work on behalf of children in need.

$273k
Granted FY2022
4
Grants FY2022
4
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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 2022.

Education$190kHealth$169kInternational$158kHuman Services$50kCrime & Legal$30kYouth Development$22k
02FY2022 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 4 grants below total $55,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $272,500 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $217,500 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.
$10,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
A BREEZE OF HOPE$25,000
A LEG TO STAND ON$10,000
JUAN FELIPE GOMEZ ESCBR FNDTN$10,000
MAKINDU CHILDRENS PROGRAM$10,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY18–22, $215k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 65% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%A BREEZE OF HOPE: $25k → 10%The Sparkle Effect: $40k → 12%FNDTN FR CHLDRN WITH HRNG LSS: $25k → 10%A BREEZE OF HOPE: $25k → 10%THE SPARKLE EFFECT: $15k → 12%THE READING TEAM: $28k → 17%THE READING TEAM: $28k → 17%The Reading Team: $28k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
WI
NY
OR
IA
PA
NJ
CA
MD
DE
TX
FL
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

58%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$357k · 6 repeat orgs$263k to everyone else

6 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2022, 4 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
9

Total granted

$357k
$243k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-15%
+35%

Still filing today

83%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’22
Human ServicesInternationalEducationCrime & LegalHealthYouth 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

  • RT
    READING TEAM INC
    3× · 2018–2020 · $85k · revenue -16%
  • MC
    MAKINDU CHILDRENS PROGRAM
    3× · 2019–2022 · $70k · revenue +72%
  • SF
    SMILES FOREVER
    2× · 2019–2020 · $57k · revenue +47% · 32% of their budget

Funded once

  • CP
    CLAIRE'S PLACE FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $47k · revenue +35%
  • UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEFgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $45k · revenue +46%
  • CA
    Children At Risk
    one grant, 2019 · $30k · revenue +10%
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
Childrens Global Alliance

Provide assistance with orphanages and schooling.

Human Services
2
Empower African Children

To create transformative and globally connected learning experiences, preparing orphaned and vulnerable children for a lifetime of influence.

—
3
Aid for Starving Children

Aid For Starving Children provides assistance around the world to children and their families by providing food, shelter, clean water, financial assistance, education, and emergency relief to victims of famine, natural disasters, and war.

International
4
Child Health Foundation

Support and Research Major Problems in Child Health Globally

International
5
Onechild Global

One child global's mission is to advocate for children in hard places and provide holistic care so they have hope and thrive. onechild global's 355 hope centers provide holistic child development progress in nineteen countries.

International
6
Childrens Global Health Fund Inc

Saving lives of vulnerable children and families globally.

Human Services
7
Street Child Us

Street Child's vision is a world in which all children are safe, in school and learning. We believe that education is not only a fundamental human right but the surest pathway out of poverty, and that schools should be a site of safety as…

International
8
Childcare Worldwide

Childcare Worldwide (CW) transforms children's lives by exposing them to the gospel of Jesus Christ, providing for their physical needs, and sponsoring their education. We connect sponsors with children through Christ-based life centers.…

International
9
Child Empowerment International
Human Services
10
Children R Future

Children R Future, a Missouri nonprofit, is dedicated to ensuring every child lives in good health and happiness. The organization supports over 1,500 sick, disabled, or orphaned children, focusing on those with PKU, Epidermolysis Bullosa,…

Health
11
Childarise

Charitable work for children

International
12
Forafrika Usa

To provide emergency response, food security, nutrition, water and sanitation, health, education, agricultural and economic development to vulnerable communities in africa in dignified and sustainable ways.

Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Worldwide Orphans Foundation; the most unlike its peers is The Sparkle Effect. 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

13 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. 13 of the 17 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
10/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

READING TEAM INC: $85,000 · Human ServicesREADING TEAM INCThe Sparkle Effect: $55,000 · Human ServicesThe Sparkle EffectA BREEZE OF HOPE FOUNDATION: $50,000 · Human ServicesA BREEZE OF HOPE FOUNDATIONGLOBAL FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN WITH HEARING LOSS: $25,000 · Human ServicesGLOBAL FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN WITH HEA…MAKINDU CHILDRENS PROGRAM: $69,933 · InternationalMAKINDU CHILDRENS PROGR…UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $45,000 · InternationalUNITED STATES FUND FOR …FOUNDATION FOR THE CHILDREN OF THE CALIFORNIAS: $13,500 · InternationalFOUNDATION FOR THE CHIL…SMILES FOREVER: $56,948 · EducationSMILES FOREVERWORLDWIDE ORPHANS FOUNDATION: $30,000 · EducationWORLDWIDE ORPHANS…Juan Felipe Escobar Foundation Inc: $10,000 · EducationJuan Felipe Escob…BRIGHT YOUNG DYSLEXICS FOUNDATION INC: $40,300 · OtherBRIGHT YOUNG DYS…Shred Kids Cancer: $27,500 · OtherShred Kids Cance…WE CANCERVE MOVEMENT INC: $12,500 · OtherWE CANCERVE MOVE…GLOBAL YOUTH HELP INC: $11,961 · OtherGLOBAL YOUTH HEL…CLAIRE'S PLACE FOUNDATION INC: $47,109 · HealthChildren At Risk: $30,000 · Crime & LegalA LEG TO STAND ON INC: $10,000 · Youth Development
Human Services$215,000International$128,433Education$96,948Other$92,261Health$47,109Crime & Legal$30,000Youth Development$10,000

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 budgetREADING TEAM INC: $85,000 over 3y, 3.6% of budgetMAKINDU CHILDRENS PROGRAM: $69,933 over 3y, 9.8% of budgetSMILES FOREVER: $56,948 over 2y, 32% of budgetA BREEZE OF HOPE FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetCLAIRE'S PLACE FOUNDATION INC: $47,109 over 1y, 17% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $45,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChildren At Risk: $30,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetWORLDWIDE ORPHANS FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR THE CHILDREN OF THE CALIFORNIAS: $13,500 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetJuan Felipe Escobar Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetA LEG TO STAND ON INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.2% 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.

Globalgiving Foundati…Paypal Charitable Giv…Network for GoodDonor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Amazonsmile FoundationFidelity Investments …
Globalgiving Foundation IncDC13× affinity4 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Globalgiving Foundation Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Network for Good · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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

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no gov · 20%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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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    How do I get to World of Children Inc?

    Find your warmest path to World of Children Inc 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 17 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2023) is on record and reports $5k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2022, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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