New York · Nonprofit
WORLD ORT INC
WORLD ORT INC (New York) receives grants from 274 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,984,881 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($1,752,010). 168 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $17M
- Funders on record
- 274
- Grants received
- $13M
- Net assets
- $20M
What World Ort Inc does
Mission
To transform lives through education driven by jewish values and innovation that empowers people and strengthens communities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Ort america provides financial support to the ort network of schools and training programs in 30 countries, benefitting over 200,000 beneficiaries annually. The cutting-edge education acquired at ort schools, colleges and international programs provide marketable skills that enable students to attain successful careers, become community leaders and live independently. Among the recipients of financial support from ort america are the ort programs in the united states, including the jewish vocational services center of detroit which have adult education programs oriented toward job placement in their chosen field and the baruch college fund. Overseas programs that ort america provides funding to include kadima mada (science journey), which is an initiative of the global ort program that focuses on stem (science, technology, engineering and math) instruction in cooperation with the israel ministry of education to elevate science and technology education for israeli middle and high schools in low-income regions as a means of enhancing opportunities for the students served. Ort's latin america program is another key recipient of funding, assuring that jewish and other students in…
$9,002,594 spentof which $8,813,222 as grants68% of program spendingSupport of the global ort program relies on an active, knowledgeable, and motivated leadership and membership base. This, in turn, necessitates a sustainable structure for outreach, as well as leadership training and next generation initiatives. Ort america's membership base includes supporters from both of its predecessor organizations, american ort and women's american ort.
$3,804,804 spent29% of program spendingCommunication and marketing is an essential part of ort america's goal of educating the overall community about ort's global programs, as well as promoting ort's values, the importance of educating individuals, which in turn impacts communities, and improves the world.
$484,601 spent4% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $13,291,999.
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.
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 $33M to $23M (−30%).
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: 2020 6% · 2021 3% · 2022 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
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
Allison Weinger
CEO - ort america
Board chair
Michael Perlmuter
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 77 funders to 111 funders, grant income rose $658k → $1.9M.
35 of 274 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 53% 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: $44M from 40 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Jewish Federations of North America Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money WORLD ORT INC raised.
From the IRS filings of WORLD ORT INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 274 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
WORLD ORT INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 13% of grant income, and it takes 9 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 9 funders to its left
56% 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 WORLD ORT INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 18% · 2018 20% · 2019 12% · 2020 19% · 2021 24% · 2022 12% · 2023 16% — 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
43% of WORLD ORT INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% 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
53% of WORLD ORT INC'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 $6.1M that is directly attributable, 94% of it comes from funders outside New York, across 27 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6.9M arriving through sponsors registered in 16 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.
Organizations like WORLD ORT INC
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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
88% 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 36 states
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Women's American Ort Foundation · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WORLD ORT INC: 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 WORLD ORT INC?
- WORLD ORT INC (New York) receives grants from 274 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,984,881 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($1,752,010). 168 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does WORLD ORT INC have?
- IRS filings report 274 organizations giving $12,984,881 in grants to WORLD ORT INC, 168 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WORLD ORT INC?
- NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $1,752,010 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WORLD ORT INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 274 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