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WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC

WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 4118 organizations whose IRS filings report $615,448,534 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($103,781,057). 1981 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 60% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

$328M
Revenue FY2024
4,118
Funders on record
$615M
Grants received
$192M
Net assets
1981/4118 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 41%

Against its field

WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 96 international nonprofits its size.

Operating margin9% · above the median
Months of reserve6.7mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)47% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 96 international nonprofits over $100M, FY2024

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 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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($22M) Expenses 100 ($9.8M) Net assets 100 ($12M)2018 Revenue 44 ($9.5M) Expenses 60 ($5.8M) Net assets 131 ($16M)2019 Revenue 135 ($29M) Expenses 190 ($19M) Net assets 220 ($26M)2020 Revenue 1250 ($270M) Expenses 2337 ($228M) Net assets 571 ($68M)2021 Revenue 568 ($123M) Expenses 808 ($79M) Net assets 940 ($112M)2022 Revenue 2535 ($548M) Expenses 4747 ($464M) Net assets 1628 ($195M)2023 Revenue 1117 ($242M) Expenses 2833 ($277M) Net assets 1327 ($159M)2024 Revenue 1517 ($328M) Expenses 3061 ($299M) Net assets 1609 ($192M)
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Revenue (1517)Expenses (3061)Net assets (1609)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.

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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 45% · 2020 6% · 2021 12% · 2022 0% · 2024 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

98% of WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (97% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 97 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$12M
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$3.7M
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$11M
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$42M
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$44M
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$84M
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$35M
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$29M
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6.7
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reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 73 funders to 1536 funders, grant income rose $5.1M → $94M.

292 of 4118 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)60% 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: $2.5M from one payer (an institutional transfer, not a grant programme, largest Goldberg Family Foundation Inc 67-48576810). These are real filings, and they are not money WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC raised.

From the IRS filings of WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 4118 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 CENTRAL KITCHEN INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 17% of grant income, and it takes 12 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 12 funders to its left

70% 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 CENTRAL KITCHEN INC.

17%
largest funder
32%
top three
~22
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 39% · 2018 33% · 2019 9% · 2020 14% · 2021 38% · 2022 13% · 2023 12%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

55% of WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 48% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

61% of WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN 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 $239M that is directly attributable, 99% of it comes from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 49 states.

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In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Washington, D.C. out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $369M arriving through sponsors registered in 42 statesis 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. Your 4118 funders put you well-backed among the 400 organizations that share them.

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.

Government funding WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $10.2M on record.

Federal$10.2M
grants $169kcontracts $10.1M
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Top agencies
  • Department of Homeland Security$10.1M
  • Department of Agriculture$169k

Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.

Organizations like WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC

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 Washington, D.C.

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

90% of spending goes to programs.

Program 90%Management 5%Fundraising 4%

Governance

7
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

99%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 39 states

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Part of a family of 2 related entities

  • World Central Kitchen Spain · exempt
  • World Central Kitchen Haiti · exempt

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN 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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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC?
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 4118 organizations whose IRS filings report $615,448,534 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($103,781,057). 1981 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 60% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC have?
IRS filings report 4118 organizations giving $615,448,534 in grants to WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC, 1981 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC?
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $103,781,057 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 4118funders 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