California · Nonprofit
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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 2020 to 2021, from $1k to $1.1M (+78044%).
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 EMERGENCY RELIEF’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (96% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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
Kristy Scott
CEO/president
Board chair
Gary Becks
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
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.
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.
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.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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.
Against its field
WORLD EMERGENCY RELIEF's funding base is broadening — from 6 funders to 10 as grant income climbed.
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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
97% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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
Screen this organization
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