Massachusetts · Nonprofit
WORLD EDUCATION INC
WORLD EDUCATION INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,184,407 to it, the largest being WELLSPRING PHILANTHROPIC FUND INC ($1,340,000). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2023
- $48M
- Funders on record
- 29
- Grants received
- $8.2M
- Net assets
- $0
What World Education Inc does
Mission
World education is dedicated to improving people's lives around the world through education, social and economic development programs.
As stated on its FY2023 Form 990.
Programs
Bantwana/ovc programs:the bantwana initiative of world education works with vulnerable children, adolescents and their families who are affected by poverty, hiv, and gender-based violence. Bantwana delivers critical wrap around services to ensure access to education; social and child protection; economic strengthening; and health, hiv/aids and post-abuse services. Bantwana programming works closely with individuals, families, communities, and governments to respond to these critical needs, while addressing the structural drivers of hiv to increase resilience and decrease the risk of hiv infection. We work in high hiv-burden countries in east and southern africa, including: eswatini, malawi, mozambique, uganda, tanzania and zimbabwe.
$16,143,045 spentof which $6,594,393 as grants42% of program spendingAfrica programs: World Education Inc.'s africa division supports a variety of education programming in uganda, ghana, mozambique, cote d'ivoire, benin, and mali. These programs involve both formal education and non-formal education support and serve both adults and children as well as the ministries that oversee their well-being and education provision. Africa division's formal education support includes teacher training in early grade reading and math, early childhood education, bilingual literacy, and community mobilization through capacity building of parent teacher associations/school management committees. The non-formal education work usually involves the provision of functional literacy to out of school children or illiterate adults so that they can either access formal education opportunities or better income generation opportunities. The cornerstone of much of our work is our sensitivity to and purposeful integration of gender issues, specifically around women's empowerment and girl's access to education.
$12,327,524 spentof which $3,161,101 as grants32% of program spendingAsia programs:world education's asia division currently operates in myanmar, laos, nepal and cambodia and focuses on four thematic areas, basic education, strengthening systems and support for persons with disabilities, migration/anti-trafficking and child labor elimination, and youth development. In basic education, we emphasize early grade reading and early grade math, inclusive education (for children with disabilities and minority language speakers), technology in education, and nonformal education. Our current signature project in the disabilities arena enhances the independence and functional ability of persons with disabilities in laos through equal access to health and social services. We currently support capacity building of local ngos that are working to eliminate child labor in nepal.
$6,959,392 spentof which $2,630,377 as grants18% of program spendingDomestic programs:world education's u.s. Division advances the economic mobility of vulnerable people and communities through education. The u.s. Division improves the quality, efficiency, and availability of education for adults with low skills in educational settings, workplaces, libraries, and more. It is one of the leading providers of progessional development and technical assistance for adult education, and operates four centers of expertise and the ma adult literacy hotline. It develops, documents, and disseminates innovations and promising practices in adult education, and responds to pressing needs, such as the need for foundational digital skills.
$3,267,825 spentof which $187,474 as grants8% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2022 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $38,697,786.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $11M to $0 (−100%).
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: 2017 79% · 2018 81% · 2019 76% · 2020 74% · 2021 75% · 2022 81% · 2023 85%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 7 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.
Chief executive
Margaret Crotty
President and CEO
As listed on its FY2023 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 9 funders, grant income fell $1.7M → $143k.
10 of 29 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 22% 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: $2.1M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Jsi Research & Training Institute Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money WORLD EDUCATION INC raised.
From the IRS filings of WORLD EDUCATION INC’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 EDUCATION INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 16% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
64% 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 EDUCATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 49% · 2018 69% · 2019 46% · 2020 32% · 2021 26% · 2022 35% · 2023 37% — 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
38% of WORLD EDUCATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% 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 EDUCATION INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Massachusetts, across 10 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.8M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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.
Government funding WORLD EDUCATION INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $173.0M on record.
- Agency for International Development$164.4M
- Department of State$5.0M
- Department of Labor$3.1M
- Peace Corps$461k
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 EDUCATION INC
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 Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 36 states
Part of a family of 5 related entities
- Jsi Research and Training Institute Inc · exempt
- Partnership for Supply Chain Management · exempt
- John Snow Inc · corp_trust
- John Snow India Private Limited · corp_trust
- Community Economics Corporation · corp_trust
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Questions and answers
- Who funds WORLD EDUCATION INC?
- WORLD EDUCATION INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,184,407 to it, the largest being WELLSPRING PHILANTHROPIC FUND INC ($1,340,000). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WORLD EDUCATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 29 organizations giving $8,184,407 in grants to WORLD EDUCATION INC, 18 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WORLD EDUCATION INC?
- WELLSPRING PHILANTHROPIC FUND INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,340,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WORLD EDUCATION INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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 FY2023 (financials across 2017–2023), and the filings of 29 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