Vermont · Nonprofit
WORLD LEARNING INC
WORLD LEARNING INC (Vermont) receives grants from 67 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,841,754 to it, the largest being FAMILY HEALTH INTERNATIONAL INC ($5,736,415). 37 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $88M
- Funders on record
- 67
- Grants received
- $16M
- Net assets
- $51M
What World Learning Inc does
Mission
Creating a more sustainable, peaceful, and just world through education, development, and exchange since 1932. As both an accredited academic institution and an international ngo, world learning, inc. Offers the best of theory and practice to individuals and institutions in 162 countries. We believe that our work, ground in our experiential approach to learning, helps people become the best version of themselves. By offering opportunites for people to learn about and experience the world, and develop their skills, confidence, and understanding, we create leaders who effect positive change in their communities and around the world.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Global development and exchange - for more than 90 years, world learning has advanced american leadership at home and abroad by equipping students, professionals, and institutions with the skills, networks, and real-world experience needed to address today's most pressing challenges. Through dynamic, experiential education and exchange programs, we strengthen 21st-century competencies, foster innovation, and expand economic opportunitybuilding more secure and prosperous communities worldwide.our activities include supporting stem centers for youth in algeria; implementing in-person and virtual youth, professional, and academicexchanges; providing training to english language teachers; and working to support primary schools in lebanon to enhance literacy and numeracy skills. By connecting people through experiential learning and opportunities to practice what the organization teaches, world learning has created a vast global network of students, alumni, faculty, staff and local partners working together to inspire and lead change at the individual, community, and institutional levels. Learn more at: worldlearning.org.
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$6,055,748 spentof which $112,781 as grants$6,062,494 earned by the program8% of program spendingThe experiment in international living - the experiment, world learning's founding program, has been a pioneer of youth exchange programs since 1932. Through abroad and virtual exchanges, the experiment empowers high school students to step off the beaten path, experience the world as a classroom, immerse themselves in other cultures, and build the knowledge and skills needed to solve the challenges of tomorrow. Learn more at experiment.org
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$2,276,498 spentof which $381,600 as grants$1,547,415 earned by the program3% of program spendingOther program services, including tesol, and auxilliary student services.
$179,748 spent$409,768 earned by the program0% of program spending
The 6 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $79,128,819.
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 2019 to 2020, from $73M to $67M (−9%).
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 0% · 2018 0% · 2019 0% · 2020 0% · 2021 21% · 2022 6% · 2023 0% · 2024 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
2% of WORLD LEARNING INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue 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. 5 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
Carol Jenkins
CEO
Board chair
Allen B Cutler
Trustee, board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 22 funders to 24 funders, grant income fell $2.1M → $1.6M.
18 of 67 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 34% 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 LEARNING INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 67 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 LEARNING INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 36% of grant income and the top three 66%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
91% 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 LEARNING INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 47% · 2018 31% · 2019 52% · 2020 51% · 2021 47% · 2022 40% · 2023 52% — 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
47% of WORLD LEARNING INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% 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 LEARNING INC draws 98% of its grant income from funders outside Vermont, across 19 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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 LEARNING INC's revenue fell 43% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 174 international nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding WORLD LEARNING INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $465.5M on record — $460.7M federal, $4.8M state.
- Department of State$321.7M
- Agency for International Development$137.1M
- Department of Education$2.0M
- VT$4.8M
- FL$182
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 LEARNING 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 Vermont
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 39 states
Part of a family of 22 related entities
- World Learning Samoa Charitable Trust · exempt
- Fundacion Educativa World Learning Argentina · exempt
- World Learning Chile · exempt
- Fundacion World Learning Colombia · exempt
- World Learning Iceland Ehf · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WORLD LEARNING INC: 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 LEARNING INC?
- WORLD LEARNING INC (Vermont) receives grants from 67 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,841,754 to it, the largest being FAMILY HEALTH INTERNATIONAL INC ($5,736,415). 37 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WORLD LEARNING INC have?
- IRS filings report 67 organizations giving $15,841,754 in grants to WORLD LEARNING INC, 37 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WORLD LEARNING INC?
- FAMILY HEALTH INTERNATIONAL INC is the largest funder on record, with $5,736,415 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WORLD LEARNING INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Vermont. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 67 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