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GLOBAL VILLAGE CONNECT

GLOBAL VILLAGE CONNECT (Minnesota) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $304,336 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($126,500). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 75% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$212k
Funders on record
16
Grants received
$304k
Net assets
$151k
9/16 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 32%
01What it does

What Global Village Connect does

Mission

Global Village Connect connects classrooms and communities by developing practical solutions that improve health, education and economic opportunity through sustainable micro-enterprise.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Business training

    $14,676 spent
    7% of program spending
  2. Food programs

    $9,492 spent
    5% of program spending
  3. Farm programs

    $20,253 spent
    10% of program spending
  4. Give a goat 11,492 goat farms 31,777 capital projects 7,443 scholarships 26,911 vocational programs 6,353 other projects 10,037 project compensation 9,152 small business grants 54,253 contractors 4,454 wages / payroll tax applicable to program expenses 43,816

    $161,872 spent
    78% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $206,293.

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 ($17k) Expenses 100 ($15k) Net assets 100 ($9k)2018 Revenue 268 ($44k) Expenses 273 ($42k) Net assets 131 ($12k)2019 Revenue 570 ($95k) Expenses 382 ($58k) Net assets 529 ($49k)2020 Revenue 724 ($120k) Expenses 693 ($106k) Net assets 683 ($63k)2021 Revenue 860 ($143k) Expenses 718 ($110k) Net assets 1344 ($125k)2022 Revenue 1517 ($252k) Expenses 1354 ($207k) Net assets 1214 ($112k)2023 Revenue 1842 ($305k) Expenses 1541 ($235k) Net assets 2030 ($188k)2024 Revenue 1280 ($212k) Expenses 1691 ($258k) Net assets 1624 ($151k)
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Revenue (1280)Expenses (1691)Net assets (1624)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 2022 to 2023, from $112k to $188k (+67%).

$9k
$12k
$49k
$63k
$125k
$112k
$188k
$151k
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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

Government-grant reliance: 2022 100% · 2023 100% · 2024 97%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

97% of GLOBAL VILLAGE CONNECT’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 23,870 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$1k
’17
$3k
’18
$36k
’19
$14k
’20
$33k
’21
$45k
’22
$70k
’23
−$46k
’24
4.9
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.

202220232024
Listed333
Joined·+0+0
No longer listed·00
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $30k → $95k.

6 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 75% 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 VILLAGE CONNECT’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 VILLAGE CONNECT leans on a few funders — its largest provides 42% of grant income and the top three 82%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

81% 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 GLOBAL VILLAGE CONNECT.

42%
largest funder
82%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 83% · 2020 100% · 2021 53% · 2022 25% · 2023 63% — 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

40% of GLOBAL VILLAGE CONNECT's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 56% 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

75% of GLOBAL VILLAGE CONNECT's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $78k that is directly attributable, 90% of it comes from funders outside Minnesota, across 7 states.

MN
IL
WI
NY
CA
AZ
FL

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

’21
’22
’23
Minnesota out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $227k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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 VILLAGE CONNECT has grown faster than three-quarters of the 21,616 human services nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−22% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve4.9mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)44% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,616 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Organizations like GLOBAL VILLAGE CONNECT

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 Minnesota

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

80% of spending goes to programs.

Program 80%Management 17%Fundraising 3%

Governance

3
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds GLOBAL VILLAGE CONNECT?
GLOBAL VILLAGE CONNECT (Minnesota) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $304,336 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($126,500). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 75% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does GLOBAL VILLAGE CONNECT have?
IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $304,336 in grants to GLOBAL VILLAGE CONNECT, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of GLOBAL VILLAGE CONNECT?
NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $126,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like GLOBAL VILLAGE CONNECT find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 16 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