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GLOBAL BUSINESS COALITION FOR EDUCATION INC

GLOBAL BUSINESS COALITION FOR EDUCATION INC (New York) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,787,921 to it, the largest being BHP FOUNDATION ($5,822,921). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$1.8M
Funders on record
10
Grants received
$7.8M
Net assets
$2.1M
5/10 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 80%
01What it does

What Global Business Coalition for Education Inc does

Mission

Theirworld usa creates awareness, raises financial resources, and takes action to end the education crisis in the u.s. And around the world. The organization's mission is to ensure that all children have the best start in life, a safe place to learn, and skills for the future. The organization supports efforts to engage young people and the business community in education, using evidence and research to guide its work. Theirworld usa also engages in global education projects and campaigns aligned with theirworld.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Theirworld usa's key programs include: the best start in life: the organization supports early childhood development and education activities aligned with the act for early years campaign. The campaign aims to secure quality early childhood development, care, and education for every child during the first five years of life. The campaign engages a global network of civil society organizations, youth, and business leaders. Continued on schedule oa safe place to learn: the organization aims to ensure that all children have a safe learning environment, including for children whose education is disrupted because of disaster or conflict. When a disaster strikes, children can lose out on years of schooling. In some circumstances, they become vulnerable to trafficking, child labor, and other dangers. For a young person or family in crisis, education provides a safe space, a sense of normalcy, and growing hope. For a community, education serves as the bedrock to rebuild even stronger economically and socially.skills for the future: the organization works to address the youth skills and employment by harnessing the innovation and creativity of youth and industry leaders to forge new…

    $1,390,442 spentof which $108,950 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,390,442.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($796k) Expenses 100 ($594k) Net assets 100 ($617k)2018 Revenue 76 ($605k) Expenses 119 ($707k) Net assets 84 ($515k)2019 Revenue 167 ($1.3M) Expenses 194 ($1.2M) Net assets 112 ($691k)2020 Revenue 320 ($2.5M) Expenses 278 ($1.6M) Net assets 258 ($1.6M)2021 Revenue 390 ($3.1M) Expenses 314 ($1.9M) Net assets 459 ($2.8M)2022 Revenue 293 ($2.3M) Expenses 408 ($2.4M) Net assets 432 ($2.7M)2023 Revenue 161 ($1.3M) Expenses 346 ($2.1M) Net assets 307 ($1.9M)2024 Revenue 225 ($1.8M) Expenses 264 ($1.6M) Net assets 343 ($2.1M)
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Revenue (225)Expenses (264)Net assets (343)Peer revenue range

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 $1.8M to $3.0M (+66%).

$798k
$560k
$818k
$1.8M
$3.0M
$2.9M
$2.1M
$2.2M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

95% of GLOBAL BUSINESS COALITION FOR EDUCATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,352 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$202k
’17
−$102k
’18
$176k
’19
$898k
’20
$1.2M
’21
−$89k
’22
−$775k
’23
$224k
’24
1.5
months of
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.

Chief executive

Justin W Van Fleet

CEO

Board chair

Sarah Brown

Exec. Chair, director

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

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Listed34567899
Joined·+1+1+1+1+1+1+0
No longer listed·0000000
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $30k → $50k.

5 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 11% 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 GLOBAL BUSINESS COALITION FOR EDUCATION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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

GLOBAL BUSINESS COALITION FOR EDUCATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 75% of grant income and the top three 88%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

75%
largest funder
88%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 87% · 2019 100% · 2020 91% · 2021 96% · 2022 84% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.

“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

50% of GLOBAL BUSINESS COALITION FOR EDUCATION INC's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 50% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y

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

GLOBAL BUSINESS COALITION FOR EDUCATION INC draws 93% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 4 states in all.

NY
CA
DE
DC

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’19
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’21
’22
New York out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $850k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

GLOBAL BUSINESS COALITION FOR EDUCATION INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 11,752 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin13% · above the median
Months of reserve1.5mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)12% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,752 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Organizations like GLOBAL BUSINESS COALITION FOR EDUCATION 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 New York

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

89% of spending goes to programs.

Program 89%Management 9%Fundraising 2%

Governance

6
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

25%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 2 states

NY
CA

Part of a family of 2 related entities

  • Theirworld · exempt
  • Theirworld Projects Limited · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds GLOBAL BUSINESS COALITION FOR EDUCATION INC?
GLOBAL BUSINESS COALITION FOR EDUCATION INC (New York) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,787,921 to it, the largest being BHP FOUNDATION ($5,822,921). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does GLOBAL BUSINESS COALITION FOR EDUCATION INC have?
IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $7,787,921 in grants to GLOBAL BUSINESS COALITION FOR EDUCATION INC, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of GLOBAL BUSINESS COALITION FOR EDUCATION INC?
BHP FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $5,822,921 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like GLOBAL BUSINESS COALITION FOR EDUCATION INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 10 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing