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WORLD AFFAIRS COUNCIL OF CHARLESTON

WORLD AFFAIRS COUNCIL OF CHARLESTON (South Carolina) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $23,727 to it, the largest being PAYPAL Charitable Giving Fund ($13,727). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 58% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

$48k
Revenue FY2025
2
Funders on record
$24k
Grants received
$74k
Net assets
1/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 42%

Against its field

WORLD AFFAIRS COUNCIL OF CHARLESTON runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 1,653 international nonprofits its size.

Operating margin8% · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−3% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,653 international nonprofits under $100k, FY2025

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 = 20192019 Revenue 100 ($57k) Expenses 100 ($51k) Net assets 100 ($70k)2020 Revenue 98 ($56k) Expenses 82 ($42k) Net assets 121 ($84k)2021 Revenue 5 ($3k) Expenses 13 ($7k) Net assets 115 ($80k)2022 Revenue 58 ($33k) Expenses 74 ($38k) Net assets 108 ($75k)2023 Revenue 112 ($64k) Expenses 128 ($65k) Net assets 106 ($74k)2024 Revenue 113 ($65k) Expenses 133 ($68k) Net assets 102 ($71k)2025 Revenue 84 ($48k) Expenses 87 ($44k) Net assets 107 ($74k)
2019202020212022202320242025
Revenue (84)Expenses (87)Net assets (107)Peer revenue range

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.

2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

77% of WORLD AFFAIRS COUNCIL OF CHARLESTON’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,010 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

$6k
19
$14k
20
$4k
21
$5k
22
$1k
23
$3k
24
$4k
25
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2022 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $14k → $5k.

1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)58% 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 WORLD AFFAIRS COUNCIL OF CHARLESTON’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

WORLD AFFAIRS COUNCIL OF CHARLESTON leans on a few funders — its largest provides 58% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

58% 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 AFFAIRS COUNCIL OF CHARLESTON.

58%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 100% · 2023 100%broadly stable.

“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.

Where its funders are

58% of WORLD AFFAIRS COUNCIL OF CHARLESTON'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 $10k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside South Carolina, across 1 state.

FL

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $14k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like WORLD AFFAIRS COUNCIL OF CHARLESTON

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In South Carolina

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Public support

0%

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

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WORLD AFFAIRS COUNCIL OF CHARLESTON: 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 AFFAIRS COUNCIL OF CHARLESTON?
WORLD AFFAIRS COUNCIL OF CHARLESTON (South Carolina) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $23,727 to it, the largest being PAYPAL Charitable Giving Fund ($13,727). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 58% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does WORLD AFFAIRS COUNCIL OF CHARLESTON have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $23,727 in grants to WORLD AFFAIRS COUNCIL OF CHARLESTON, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of WORLD AFFAIRS COUNCIL OF CHARLESTON?
PAYPAL Charitable Giving Fund is the largest funder on record, with $13,727 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like WORLD AFFAIRS COUNCIL OF CHARLESTON find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in South Carolina. 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 2funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing