Florida · Nonprofit
GIVE KIDS THE WORLD INC
GIVE KIDS THE WORLD INC (Florida) receives grants from 281 organizations whose IRS filings report $18,395,292 to it, the largest being THE DON & LORRAINE FREEBERG FOUNDATION ($2,820,000). 142 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $77M
- Funders on record
- 281
- Grants received
- $18M
- Net assets
- $134M
What Give Kids the World Inc does
Mission
We ignite an enduring sense of hope in the hearts of children with critical illnesses and their families by fulfilling their wishes through our give kids the world experience.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
One of less than 1% of all u.s. Charities to receive charity navigator's highest rating 18 years in a row, give kids the world village is an 89-acre, whimsical nonprofit resort in central florida that provides children with critical illnesses and their families from around the world with magical weeklong wish vacations at no cost. More than 30,000 children in the u.s. Are diagnosed with a critical illness each year, and half of those who are eligible for a wish choose to visit orlando. Give kids the world is the nonprofit that fulfills all of these wishes. From life's simple pleasures to the stuff that dreams are made of, every wish family is treated to an all-inclusive experience including transportation; accommodations; all meals and snacks; nightly entertainment; donated theme park tickets; daily gifts; and nonstop fun at the village, a storybook destination all its own featuring an array of accessible rides and attractions. Since 1986, more than 200,000 wish children and their families from all 50 states and 77 countries have been welcomed to the village to laugh together, play together, and create priceless memories away from hospital stays and medical treatments. Give kids…
$65,576,392 spentof which $48,467,740 as grants$11,367,268 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $65,576,392.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $113M to $129M (+14%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2020 4% · 2021 9% · 2022 2% · 2023 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Board chair
John Nichols
Director - chairman (begin 05/25)
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 53 funders to 104 funders, grant income rose $1.1M → $2.2M.
35 of 281 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 32% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of GIVE KIDS THE WORLD INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 281 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
GIVE KIDS THE WORLD INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 15% of grant income, and it takes 7 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 7 funders to its left
41% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund GIVE KIDS THE WORLD INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 17% · 2018 19% · 2019 14% · 2020 25% · 2021 23% · 2022 17% · 2023 12% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
33% of GIVE KIDS THE WORLD INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 51% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
GIVE KIDS THE WORLD INC draws 91% of its grant income from funders outside Florida, across 38 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5.9M arriving through sponsors registered in 22 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Government funding GIVE KIDS THE WORLD INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $3k on record.
- REFUNDS - GENERAL $3k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like GIVE KIDS THE WORLD INC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Florida
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
92% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
37%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 43 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for GIVE KIDS THE WORLD INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds GIVE KIDS THE WORLD INC?
- GIVE KIDS THE WORLD INC (Florida) receives grants from 281 organizations whose IRS filings report $18,395,292 to it, the largest being THE DON & LORRAINE FREEBERG FOUNDATION ($2,820,000). 142 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GIVE KIDS THE WORLD INC have?
- IRS filings report 281 organizations giving $18,395,292 in grants to GIVE KIDS THE WORLD INC, 142 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GIVE KIDS THE WORLD INC?
- THE DON & LORRAINE FREEBERG FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,820,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GIVE KIDS THE WORLD INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Florida. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2018–2025), and the filings of 281 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing