California · Nonprofit
GLOBAL EXCHANGE
GLOBAL EXCHANGE (California) receives grants from 54 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,250,281 to it, the largest being LYNN HANDLEMAN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($2,267,750). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.0M
- Funders on record
- 54
- Grants received
- $6.3M
- Net assets
- $1.4M
What Global Exchange does
Mission
Its goal is to increase global awareness and move the U.S. public to action while building international and domestic partnerships around the world
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Campaigns are divided into 3 areas - Human rights campaigns which promote international understanding and cooperation for peace and democracy; Economic Justice campaigns which work to alleviate poverty and support corporate and governmental responsiblity; and Environmental campaigns which seek to build an alternative "green economy" now.
$1,016,187 spent44% of program spendingSpecial projects that provide, on a continuing basis, charitable, humanitarian,and education webinars, conferences at the national and international level.1) Our World is Not for Sale - Global network that focuses on the expansion of failed WTO model, and is committed to a sustainable, just and accountable multilateral trading system.2) Stop US Arms to Mexico - Aims to reduce the level of violence and homicides by both the state and non-state actors in Mexico through the control of the firearms trade to Mexico.3) Movement Rights - Focuses on advancing climate justice and helping tribes and indigenous people organize to stand, protect and guard nature by creating systems like water protection.
$815,748 spent35% of program spendingReality tour: Provide North Americans a true understanding of a country's internal dynamic through socially responsible travel. The tours examine the environment, public health, women's issues, language and culture.
$486,439 spent21% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,318,374.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $1.1M to $1.5M (+40%).
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: 2021 9% · 2022 0% · 2023 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
86% of GLOBAL EXCHANGE’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (97% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 12 funders to 22 funders, grant income rose $98k → $1.5M.
12 of 54 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 9% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $1.1M from one payer (the same organization on both sides, largest Global Exchange). These are real filings, and they are not money GLOBAL EXCHANGE raised.
From the IRS filings of GLOBAL EXCHANGE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 54 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
GLOBAL EXCHANGE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 36% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 33% · 2018 55% · 2019 33% · 2020 38% · 2021 45% · 2022 56% · 2023 36% — growing more concentrated.
“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
45% of GLOBAL EXCHANGE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
54% of GLOBAL EXCHANGE's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $564k arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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.
Against its field
GLOBAL EXCHANGE has grown faster than three-quarters of the 718 international nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 718 international nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding GLOBAL EXCHANGE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $475 on record.
- REFUNDS - GENERAL $475
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 GLOBAL EXCHANGE
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
86%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for GLOBAL EXCHANGE: 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 GLOBAL EXCHANGE?
- GLOBAL EXCHANGE (California) receives grants from 54 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,250,281 to it, the largest being LYNN HANDLEMAN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($2,267,750). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GLOBAL EXCHANGE have?
- IRS filings report 54 organizations giving $6,250,281 in grants to GLOBAL EXCHANGE, 27 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GLOBAL EXCHANGE?
- LYNN HANDLEMAN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,267,750 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GLOBAL EXCHANGE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2021–2025), and the filings of 54 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