Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
WORLD AFFAIRS COUNCIL OF PITTSBURGH
WORLD AFFAIRS COUNCIL OF PITTSBURGH (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 46 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,196,965 to it, the largest being THE BENTER FOUNDATION ($448,890). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $595k
- Funders on record
- 46
- Grants received
- $2.2M
- Net assets
- $1.1M
What World Affairs Council of Pittsburgh does
Mission
The World Affairs Council of Pittsburgh's mission is to convene and connect people around global issues to build a competitive, thriving, and inclusive pittsburgh.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
The council is committed to promoting successful experiential learning and providing preparation for higher education and the 21st-century workforce. Our programs work as addendums to the traditional formal education system and fill the gaps left behind in schools in relation to global opportunities and global learning. Global learning has the power to transform the ways that students see the world around themselves and change the way they see themselves in relation to the world. In doing so, it emboldens and empowers their traditional education by bringing new perspectives and new understandings into their classrooms.the council is creating these new perspectives and understandings through three initiatives under the umbrella of youth programming: our global minds program, driven by a by-youth and for-youth approach, our global travel scholarship program, and our teacher training program.at the start of 2021, the council announced the merger with the global minds initiative, a for-youth, by-youth organization created to combat the issues of cultural intolerance and discrimination through an after school tutoring program between english-as-a-second-language (esl) and native…
$368,207 spent62% of program spendingThe council reinitiated student recruitment for the global travel scholarship program in 2021, following a program pause due to international travel restrictions related to the covid-19 pandemic. In partnership with the experiment in international living, the council provides scholarships to local high school students to attend a culturally immersive program abroad for three to five weeks over the summer. The trips involve a combination of host family stays, language training, community service, and outdoor adventures. The students selected have a level of financial need that would otherwise limit their ability for international travel. The scholarship covers passport costs, flights, and program expenses.in 2023, the council had 28 students apply for the global traveler scholarship program, of whom eight students were selected to travel to six countries in the summer of 2023.
$70,582 spent12% of program spendingThe council's public programming provides an in-depth, non-partisan look at relevant international topics. Speakers offer information and analysis that allow attendees to broaden their awareness, gain new perspectives, and make informed decisions. In 2023, the council put on 11 public programs with 61 community partners, enabling attendees to hear from 49 expert speakers.
$156,412 spent$2,300 earned by the program26% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $595,201.
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 $2.2M to $1.4M (−36%).
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 12% · 2024 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
83% of WORLD AFFAIRS COUNCIL OF PITTSBURGH’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 of the last 8 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 FY2019 and FY2020 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 16 funders, grant income rose $145k → $318k.
6 of 46 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 9% 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 PITTSBURGH’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 46 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 AFFAIRS COUNCIL OF PITTSBURGH has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 20% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 37% · 2018 27% · 2019 35% · 2020 26% · 2021 45% · 2022 35% · 2023 24% — 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
25% of WORLD AFFAIRS COUNCIL OF PITTSBURGH's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 52% 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
91% of WORLD AFFAIRS COUNCIL OF PITTSBURGH's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $204k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
WORLD AFFAIRS COUNCIL OF PITTSBURGH's funding base is broadening — from 8 funders to 16 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,524 international nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like WORLD AFFAIRS COUNCIL OF PITTSBURGH
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In Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
58%
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 WORLD AFFAIRS COUNCIL OF PITTSBURGH: 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 PITTSBURGH?
- WORLD AFFAIRS COUNCIL OF PITTSBURGH (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 46 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,196,965 to it, the largest being THE BENTER FOUNDATION ($448,890). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WORLD AFFAIRS COUNCIL OF PITTSBURGH have?
- IRS filings report 46 organizations giving $2,196,965 in grants to WORLD AFFAIRS COUNCIL OF PITTSBURGH, 24 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WORLD AFFAIRS COUNCIL OF PITTSBURGH?
- THE BENTER FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $448,890 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WORLD AFFAIRS COUNCIL OF PITTSBURGH find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 46 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