California · Nonprofit
IMAGINE WORLDWIDE
IMAGINE WORLDWIDE (California) receives grants from 35 organizations whose IRS filings report $33,926,861 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($6,631,150). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $41M
- Funders on record
- 35
- Grants received
- $34M
- Net assets
- $30M
What Imagine Worldwide does
Mission
Imagine Worldwide will empower every child, everywhere to build the literacy and numeracy skills they need to achieve their full potential.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Imagine Worldwide provides an innovative education technology solution to the global literacy/numeracy learning crisis. Their model is massively scalable, evidence-based, and can deliver foundational learning to millions of the most marginalized children. Imagine launched its first pilot in 2018 and now they are operating in 7 countries across sub-saharan africa. This includes malawi where imagine is partnering with the government to expand the tablet-based model to every primary school in the country, serving 3.5mm learners over the next 5 years. There is also enormous demand to replicate this model elsewhere in sub-saharan africa and imagine is expanding to scale similarly in several additional countries.
$20,829,915 spentof which $5,003,145 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $20,829,915.
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. 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 2023 to 2024, from $15M to $32M (+109%).
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 3% · 2023 0% · 2024 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of IMAGINE WORLDWIDE’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (61% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 7 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
Kanini Mutooni
Board chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 18 funders, grant income rose $594k → $7.2M.
10 of 35 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 40% 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 IMAGINE WORLDWIDE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 35 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
IMAGINE WORLDWIDE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 20% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
45% 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 IMAGINE WORLDWIDE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 56% · 2019 82% · 2020 65% · 2021 36% · 2022 40% · 2023 35% — 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
50% of IMAGINE WORLDWIDE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% 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
IMAGINE WORLDWIDE draws 52% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 12 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $14M arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
IMAGINE WORLDWIDE runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 659 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 659 community improvement nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Organizations like IMAGINE WORLDWIDE
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
95% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
56%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Imagine Worldwide Ltd · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for IMAGINE WORLDWIDE: 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 IMAGINE WORLDWIDE?
- IMAGINE WORLDWIDE (California) receives grants from 35 organizations whose IRS filings report $33,926,861 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($6,631,150). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does IMAGINE WORLDWIDE have?
- IRS filings report 35 organizations giving $33,926,861 in grants to IMAGINE WORLDWIDE, 20 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of IMAGINE WORLDWIDE?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $6,631,150 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like IMAGINE WORLDWIDE 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.
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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 2018–2024), and the filings of 35 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