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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
7/15 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 52%
01What it does

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

  1. 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 spent
    45% of program spending
  2. Provide surgical supplies and surgical models to aid hospitals and surgeons rendering surgical services to children within our program.

    $193,000 spent
    55% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $350,888.

02The 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 ($707k) Expenses 100 ($489k) Net assets 100 ($831k)2018 Revenue 25 ($174k) Expenses 84 ($408k) Net assets 72 ($597k)2019 Revenue 157 ($1.1M) Expenses 296 ($1.4M) Net assets 29 ($245k)2020 Revenue 189 ($1.3M) Expenses 265 ($1.3M) Net assets 34 ($285k)2021 Revenue 230 ($1.6M) Expenses 290 ($1.4M) Net assets 59 ($494k)2022 Revenue 319 ($2.3M) Expenses 479 ($2.3M) Net assets 49 ($410k)2023 Revenue 73 ($519k) Expenses 137 ($668k) Net assets 34 ($279k)2024 Revenue 73 ($518k) Expenses 127 ($619k) Net assets 27 ($222k)
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Revenue (73)Expenses (127)Net assets (27)Peer revenue range

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%).

$852k
$597k
$288k
$298k
$496k
$421k
$285k
$238k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of WORLD CRANIOFACIAL FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (100% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,945 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$218k
’17
−$234k
’18
−$336k
’19
$40k
’20
$209k
’21
−$85k
’22
−$149k
’23
−$101k
’24
3.8
months of
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.

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Listed9911118665
Joined·+0+2+0+0+2+0+0
No longer listed·0003401
03Who funds it

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.

39%
largest funder
77%
top three
~4
effective funders

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.

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

WORLD CRANIOFACIAL FOUNDATION draws 84% of its grant income from funders outside Texas, across 6 states in all.

IL
WI
MI
MA
NC
TX

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

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’23
Texas out of state home

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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

WORLD CRANIOFACIAL FOUNDATION's revenue fell 27% between 2017 and 2024.

Operating margin−19% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve3.8mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−4% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,524 international nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

69% of spending goes to programs.

Program 69%Management 20%Fundraising 11%

Governance

6
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

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

AK
ME
NH
WA
ND
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
UT
CO
MO
KY
WV
VA
MD
NM
KS
AR
TN
NC
SC
HI
OK
LA
MS
AL
GA
FL

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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