California · Nonprofit
One World Childrens Fund
One World Childrens Fund (California) receives grants from 81 organizations whose IRS filings report $17,745,752 to it, the largest being Erik E and Edith H Bergstrom Foundation A Charitable Trust ($4,874,681). 50 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 52% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.1M
- Funders on record
- 81
- Grants received
- $18M
- Net assets
- $744k
What One World Childrens Fund does
Mission
One world provides fiscal sponsorship, collaborative education, and strategic grantmaking for international grassroots organizations. Our grassroots members use that support to build sustainable organizations that deliver food, health, shelter, safety, education, and opportunity to lift children out of poverty now and for generations to come.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2024 return the organization reported a significant change in how it conducts a program.
During FYE 25, the Board decided to move toward dissolution of the entity. We began a planned and orderly reduction of operations, with a plan to cease operations by December 2025. Accordingly, we began transitioning our member organizations to new fiscal sponsors in the latter part of FYE 25.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 3).
During FYE 25, the Board decided to move toward dissolution of the entity. We began a planned and orderly reduction of operations, with a plan to cease operations by December 2025. Accordingly, we began transitioning our member organizations to new fiscal sponsors in the latter part of FYE 25.Through the member organizations that remained with us throughout FYE 25, 214,445 young people ages 0 to 25 received access to education, healthcare, nutrition, shelter, and economic opportunity. As a result, over 700,000 individuals in the communities served will avoid suffering from poverty, unemployment, food insecurity, poor health, homelessness, and lack of access to quality education.
$3,295,843 spentof which $3,100,166 as grants100% of program spendingOur operational budget reduced to $388,891 in FYE 25 and enabled $2,805,664 in fiscally sponsored funds and $294,800 in Resilience Grants to support the work of grassroots organizations providing health, safety, education, nutrition, and opportunity to children and youth in underserved communities abroad.
We also facilitated two impactful group coaching cohorts with the assistance of an outside consultant. One group brought together women leaders in East Africa. The second group brought together nine aspiring leaders from member organizations across Africa and Asia. The groups focused on increasing leadership capacity and leadership readiness.
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,295,843.
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 2024 to 2025, from $2.2M to $748k (−65%).
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 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of One World Childrens Fund’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Chief executive
Laurel Adcock
CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2018 and FY2019, and between the FY2024 and FY2025 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 19 funders to 26 funders, grant income rose $944k → $2.5M.
25 of 81 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 52% 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 One World Childrens Fund’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 81 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
One World Childrens Fund has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 27% 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
52% 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 One World Childrens Fund.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 26% · 2018 32% · 2019 31% · 2020 24% · 2021 54% · 2022 44% · 2023 31% — 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
52% of One World Childrens Fund's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% 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
52% of One World Childrens Fund'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 $8.6M that is directly attributable, 91% of it comes from funders outside California, across 18 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $9.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 15 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
One World Childrens Fund receives grants from 81 organizations whose IRS filings report $18M to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,504 philanthropy nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like One World Childrens Fund
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
94% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
82%
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 One World Childrens Fund: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. Screen this nonprofit · How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds One World Childrens Fund?
- One World Childrens Fund (California) receives grants from 81 organizations whose IRS filings report $17,745,752 to it, the largest being Erik E and Edith H Bergstrom Foundation A Charitable Trust ($4,874,681). 50 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 52% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does One World Childrens Fund have?
- IRS filings report 81 organizations giving $17,745,752 in grants to One World Childrens Fund, 50 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of One World Childrens Fund?
- Erik E and Edith H Bergstrom Foundation A Charitable Trust is the largest funder on record, with $4,874,681 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like One World Childrens Fund 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 81 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