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WORLD EMERGENCY RELIEF

WORLD EMERGENCY RELIEF (California) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,899,868 to it, the largest being Means Database Inc ($4,276,058). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$20M
Funders on record
28
Grants received
$5.9M
Net assets
$1.5M
17/28 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 5%
01What it does

What World Emergency Relief does

Mission

World Emergency Relief alleviates the suffering of human beings by providing humanitarian relief and developmental aid to people who have been marginalized by geography or harmed by natural disaster, war, armed conflict, exploitation, physical or mental abuse or economic deprivation.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. US Relief:World Emergency Relief/Children's Food Fund - provides financial assistance as well as food, medicine and other essential goods to those that would otherwise do without.

  2. International Relief:Humanitarian Aid - provides safe water to strengthen public health and welfare, food to starving children and vulnerable populations, medicines to hospitals and clinics, and mixed relief supplies to poor, orphaned and refugee populations as well as for disaster response worldwide.Financial Assistance supports various international organizations and projects to provide critical needs of water, food, healthcare, education, and child safety.

  3. Native American Emergency Relief - provides financial and gifts-in-kind relief to Native American populations where poverty and third-world conditions are often overlooked.

The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.

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 ($14M) Expenses 100 ($14M) Net assets 100 ($405k)2018 Revenue 40 ($5.5M) Expenses 41 ($5.6M) Net assets 79 ($319k)2019 Revenue 74 ($10M) Expenses 75 ($10M) Net assets 65 ($261k)2020 Revenue 0 ($0) Net assets 0 ($0)2021 Revenue 129 ($18M) Expenses 126 ($17M) Net assets 234 ($946k)2022 Revenue 275 ($38M) Expenses 280 ($38M) Net assets 214 ($868k)2023 Revenue 79 ($11M) Expenses 74 ($10M) Net assets 448 ($1.8M)2024 Revenue 147 ($20M) Expenses 152 ($21M) Net assets 361 ($1.5M)
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Revenue (147)Expenses (152)Net assets (361)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 2020 to 2021, from $1k to $1.1M (+78044%).

$444k
$388k
$306k
$1k
$1.1M
$930k
$1.9M
$1.5M
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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
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of WORLD EMERGENCY RELIEF’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (96% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 391 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

$181k
’17
−$72k
’18
−$63k
’19
’20
$538k
’21
−$68k
’22
$945k
’23
−$359k
’24
0.8
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.

Chief executive

Kristy Scott

CEO/president

Board chair

Gary Becks

Chairman

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

2017201820192021202220232024
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Joined·+0+0·+0+0+0
No longer listed·00·000
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $41k → $536k.

6 of 28 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 17% 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 EMERGENCY RELIEF’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 22 of 28 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 EMERGENCY RELIEF leans on a few funders — its largest provides 72% of grant income and the top three 94%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

93% 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 EMERGENCY RELIEF.

72%
largest funder
94%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 89% · 2018 91% · 2019 55% · 2020 67% · 2021 75% · 2022 74% · 2023 56% — 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

33% of WORLD EMERGENCY RELIEF's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% 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 EMERGENCY RELIEF draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 11 states in all.

MN
NY
PA
CT
CA
VA
DE
AZ
DC
GA
TX

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

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’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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 EMERGENCY RELIEF's funding base is broadening — from 6 funders to 10 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin−2% · below the median
Months of reserve0.8mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)6% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 363 international nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024

Organizations like WORLD EMERGENCY RELIEF

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 California

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

97% of spending goes to programs.

Program 97%Management 1%Fundraising 2%

Governance

5
board members
80%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

46%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 35 states

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

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WORLD EMERGENCY RELIEF: 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 EMERGENCY RELIEF?
WORLD EMERGENCY RELIEF (California) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,899,868 to it, the largest being Means Database Inc ($4,276,058). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does WORLD EMERGENCY RELIEF have?
IRS filings report 28 organizations giving $5,899,868 in grants to WORLD EMERGENCY RELIEF, 17 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of WORLD EMERGENCY RELIEF?
Means Database Inc is the largest funder on record, with $4,276,058 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like WORLD EMERGENCY RELIEF find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 28 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing