Minnesota · Nonprofit
GLOBAL VOLUNTEERS
GLOBAL VOLUNTEERS (Minnesota) receives grants from 41 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,754,795 to it, the largest being THOMAS OHANA FOUNDATION ($2,682,962). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.9M
- Funders on record
- 41
- Grants received
- $4.8M
- Net assets
- $67k
What Global Volunteers does
Mission
To encourage and enable volunteers to spend short periods of time working with and learning from and about local people in communities throughout the world.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Below data are not exhaustive, but provide highlights of Global Volunteers' service accomplishments in various countries during fy23. Cuba: volunteers practice conversational english with youth and adults, work in community gardens, support and assist seniors, make crafts with a local women's cooperative, and help with light construction and/or painting. Tanzania: the prevalence of childhood stunting was significantly reduced in families enrolled in Global Volunteers' reaching children's potential (rcp) program, as reported by the tanzania food and nutrition center, a division of the tanzania ministry of health. Rcp is a child-focused, parent-driven, community-led, and volunteer-supported comprehensive program that invests in children's and mothers' nutrition, health, and education beginning with pregnancy, continuing through the 18th birthday, and focusing on the first 1,000 days of life. All components are implemented and directed by local people with the catalytic support of local staff and external volunteers. Volunteers help parents and community members deliver the 12 essential services prescribed by un agencies so that childhood stunting can be eliminated, and all children…
$3,176,135 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $3,176,135.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $705k to $1.4M (+92%).
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 14% · 2023 9% · 2024 28%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of GLOBAL VOLUNTEERS’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (97% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 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.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 15 funders, grant income rose $312k → $633k.
16 of 41 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 29% 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 VOLUNTEERS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 41 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 VOLUNTEERS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 56% of grant income and the top three 72%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
29% 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 VOLUNTEERS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 93% · 2018 94% · 2019 80% · 2020 64% · 2021 42% · 2022 28% · 2023 34% — 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
39% of GLOBAL VOLUNTEERS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 44% 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
GLOBAL VOLUNTEERS draws 86% of its grant income from funders outside Minnesota, across 14 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 12 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 VOLUNTEERS runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 798 international nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 798 international nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like GLOBAL VOLUNTEERS
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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 49 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for GLOBAL VOLUNTEERS: 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 VOLUNTEERS?
- GLOBAL VOLUNTEERS (Minnesota) receives grants from 41 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,754,795 to it, the largest being THOMAS OHANA FOUNDATION ($2,682,962). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GLOBAL VOLUNTEERS have?
- IRS filings report 41 organizations giving $4,754,795 in grants to GLOBAL VOLUNTEERS, 18 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GLOBAL VOLUNTEERS?
- THOMAS OHANA FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,682,962 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GLOBAL VOLUNTEERS 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 41 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