Virginia · Nonprofit
WORLD HELP
WORLD HELP (Virginia) receives grants from 95 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,465,763 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,329,387). 49 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 60% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2026
- $37M
- Funders on record
- 95
- Grants received
- $9.5M
- Net assets
- $10M
What World Help does
Mission
World Help is a 501(c)(3) christian humanitarian organization that exists to serve the physical and spiritual needs of people in impoverished communities around the world. (continued on schedule o)World Help has impacted millions of people around the world with emergency aid and relief, sustainability and education projects, and community development programs. All our programs are developed with the goal of meeting people's spiritual needs by spreading the gospel through church planting, bible distribution, and training. World Help's mission has remained firm: providing physical help for today and spiritual hope for tomorrow.
As stated on its FY2026 Form 990.
Programs
Humanitarian aid: World Help strives to be the first one on the ground and the last one to leave when crises happen around the world. Our immediate response to meet physical and spiritual needs during natural disasters, famine, poverty, or other catastrophes is crucial to helping save lives. We partner with nationals already on the ground who can quickly identify where the needs are the most critical. We then work to ensure people have access to necessities including water, food, medicine, shelter, and clothing. Everything we do is built on the belief that we, as people of faith, are called to change lives. And we believe lives can only be changed when the needs of the whole person are met - body and soul. (continued on schedule o)faith means very little when people don't have access to the food, clean water, or medicines they need. But without faith, meeting those physical needs is just a short-term fix. It takes both physical help and spiritual hope for true transformation to happen. Our ultimate goal is to establish self-sustaining communities with access to the word of god, improve lives, and create brighter futures.
$22,109,316 spentof which $20,766,595 as grants73% of program spendingInternational programs: World Help works with national christian partners in some of the most impoverished places on earth to be the hands, feet, and heart of jesus on the ground. We focus on helping save lives; meeting urgent needs through aid and relief projects; investing in long-term sustainable transformation through agriculture initiatives, education, and vocational training; building and equipping medical facilities, providing clean water; and sponsoring children living in poverty. Our goal is to meet people's physical needs so we have an opportunity to meet their spiritual needs as well.community development: meeting basic needs alone doesn't create long term sustainability in a community. Giving physical help without developmental solutions can foster dependence.(continued on schedule o)World Help is committed to changing lives through our community transformation initiative. When we provide clean water, access to education, and spiritual support, we lay the groundwork for lasting transformation.
$7,623,008 spentof which $6,278,416 as grants25% of program spendingOutreach ministries: World Help's children of the world international children's choir, which is composed of international children from our child sponsorship programs, travels the country to present the desperate reality of millions of children who cannot speak for themselves. The program aims to use song, dance, spoken word, and creative media to inspire audiences across the united states to step out in faith and sponsor an impoverished child in need. (continued on schedule o)the in-person, touring element of the ministry was stopped in march 2020, until further notice, due to the implications of covid-19; however, the recorded music produced over two decades of touring, continues to impact lives around the world. In addition to this, the outreach ministry continues to invest in choir alum, who, upon graduating from their sponsorship programs, are each granted a scholarship to a local college or technical institution of their choosing for having participated on the children of the world international children's choir for a tour year.
$352,843 spentof which $122,183 as grants$-16,891 earned by the program1% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2026 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $30,085,167.
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 2023 to 2024, from $15M to $9.7M (−37%).
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 42% · 2019 44% · 2020 25% · 2021 14% · 2022 23% · 2023 32% · 2024 14% · 2025 21% · 2026 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
101% of WORLD HELP’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (84% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 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
Noel Yeatts
President/CEO
As listed on its FY2026 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 23 funders to 28 funders, grant income rose $512k → $1.5M.
26 of 95 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 60% 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 HELP’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 95 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 HELP has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 14% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
62% 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 HELP.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 39% · 2018 54% · 2019 39% · 2020 23% · 2021 19% · 2022 38% · 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
37% of WORLD HELP's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 52% 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
60% of WORLD HELP's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $3.8M that is directly attributable, 97% of it comes from funders outside Virginia, across 28 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5.7M arriving through sponsors registered in 18 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 HELP receives grants from 95 organizations whose IRS filings report $9.5M to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 286 religion nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2026
Government funding WORLD HELP receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $549k on record.
- Agency for International Development$549k
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 HELP
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 Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
82% 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 35 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WORLD HELP: 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 HELP?
- WORLD HELP (Virginia) receives grants from 95 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,465,763 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,329,387). 49 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 60% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does WORLD HELP have?
- IRS filings report 95 organizations giving $9,465,763 in grants to WORLD HELP, 49 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WORLD HELP?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $1,329,387 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WORLD HELP find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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 FY2026 (financials across 2017–2026), and the filings of 95 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