Texas · Nonprofit
WORLD CRANIOFACIAL FOUNDATION
WORLD CRANIOFACIAL FOUNDATION (Texas) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $558,473 to it, the largest being MERKEL FOUNDATION INC ($215,516). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $518k
- Funders on record
- 15
- Grants received
- $558k
- Net assets
- $222k
What World Craniofacial Foundation does
Mission
To provide corrective surgery to all children with craniofacial anomalies, so that they can live joy filled lives.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Every year children are born with debilitating craniofacial anomalies. World Craniofacial Foundation connects these children with skilled and generous surgeons who volunteer to travel the world saving children's lives. In 2023 World Craniofacial Foundation helped 16 of these children access the specialized surgury that they need to live normal productive lives. Skilled surgeons generously donated an equivalent of $3,420,000 of their time. Medical city in dallas has provided a five year lease as a contribution with a current fair market value of $40,180 per year.to ensure travel and hospital stays during surgury is feasible for the patients and their families, some children and their families are provided funds to cover travel expenses including visas, flights, taxis, lodging, meals, and supplies.
$157,888 spent45% of program spendingProvide surgical supplies and surgical models to aid hospitals and surgeons rendering surgical services to children within our program.
$193,000 spent55% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $350,888.
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 2018 to 2019, from $597k to $288k (−52%).
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.
100% of WORLD CRANIOFACIAL FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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.
Board chair
Kenneth E Salyer Jr
Board chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 6 funders to 5 funders, grant income fell $63k → $54k.
5 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 36% 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 CRANIOFACIAL FOUNDATION’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 CRANIOFACIAL FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 39% of grant income and the top three 77%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
38% 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 CRANIOFACIAL FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 40% · 2018 56% · 2019 62% · 2020 33% · 2021 34% · 2022 58% · 2023 55% — 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
40% of WORLD CRANIOFACIAL FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 47% 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
WORLD CRANIOFACIAL FOUNDATION draws 84% of its grant income from funders outside Texas, across 6 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $201k 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 CRANIOFACIAL FOUNDATION's revenue fell 27% between 2017 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,524 international nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like WORLD CRANIOFACIAL FOUNDATION
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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
69% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
75%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 38 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WORLD CRANIOFACIAL FOUNDATION: 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 CRANIOFACIAL FOUNDATION?
- WORLD CRANIOFACIAL FOUNDATION (Texas) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $558,473 to it, the largest being MERKEL FOUNDATION INC ($215,516). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WORLD CRANIOFACIAL FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $558,473 in grants to WORLD CRANIOFACIAL FOUNDATION, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WORLD CRANIOFACIAL FOUNDATION?
- MERKEL FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $215,516 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WORLD CRANIOFACIAL FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 15 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