New York · Nonprofit
WORLD MONUMENTS FUND INC
WORLD MONUMENTS FUND INC (New York) receives grants from 178 organizations whose IRS filings report $47,026,580 to it, the largest being THE ROBERT W WILSON CHARITABLE TRUST ($17,833,184). 102 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $36M
- Funders on record
- 178
- Grants received
- $47M
- Net assets
- $88M
What World Monuments Fund Inc does
Mission
Wmf is the leading independent organization devoted to safeguarding the world's most treasured places to enrich people's lives and build mutual understanding across cultures and communities. The organization is headquartered in new york city with offices and affiliates in cambodia, france, india, peru, portugal, spain and the uk. Since 1965, our global team of experts has preserved the world's diverse cultural heritage using the highest international standards at more than 700 sites in over 100 countries. Partnering with local communities, funders, and governments, wmf draws on heritage to address some of today's most pressing challenges: climate change, underrepresentation, imbalanced tourism, and post-crisis recovery. With a commitment to the people who bring places to life, wmf embraces the potential of the past to create a more resilient and inclusive society.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The portfolio of heritage program work includes long-term projects representing the organization's most ambitious conservation efforts, addressing critical needs while facilitating far-ranging local participation, professional skills development, and innovative solutions that can serve as models for the field, focused interventions tailored to addressing a particular issue or conservation need, emergency interventions undertaken in the aftermath of conflict or natural disaster to address acute issues on the ground, projects that develop and implement robust educational curricula to preserve and disseminate critical skills , and projects that leverage wmf's global reach to bring international attention to a cause or community in need. Major accomplishments: announced the selection of 25 sites for the 2025 world monuments watch; joined forces with the los angeles conservancy to support recovery following wildfires; completed conservation of almada negreiros murals at lisbon's rocha do conde d'obidos maritime station; partnered with accor, a global leader in hospitality, to safeguard heritage at four sites from the 2025 world monuments watch: chapel of the sorbonne (france), qhapaq…
$18,310,610 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $18,310,610.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2024 to 2025, from $80M to $96M (+20%).
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: 2019 12% · 2020 15% · 2021 16% · 2022 12% · 2023 5% · 2024 8% · 2025 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
94% of WORLD MONUMENTS FUND INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (58% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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
Benedicte De Montlaur
President and CEO
Board chair
Lorna B Goodman
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 32 funders to 71 funders, grant income rose $553k → $7.2M.
17 of 178 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 18% 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: $225k from one payer (an institutional transfer, not a grant programme, largest Weitzman Family Foundation); $220k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Global Heritage Fund). These are real filings, and they are not money WORLD MONUMENTS FUND INC raised.
From the IRS filings of WORLD MONUMENTS FUND INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 178 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 MONUMENTS FUND INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 38% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 18% · 2018 34% · 2019 22% · 2020 56% · 2021 39% · 2022 19% · 2023 28% — 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
53% of WORLD MONUMENTS FUND INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% 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
86% of WORLD MONUMENTS FUND INC's grant income comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $8.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 14 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 MONUMENTS FUND INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 570 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 570 arts & culture nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding WORLD MONUMENTS FUND INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $13.1M on record.
- Department of State$13.1M
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 MONUMENTS FUND 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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
76% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
76%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 30 states
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- World Monuments Fund Britain · disregarded
- Global Heritage Fund · exempt
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WORLD MONUMENTS FUND 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 MONUMENTS FUND INC?
- WORLD MONUMENTS FUND INC (New York) receives grants from 178 organizations whose IRS filings report $47,026,580 to it, the largest being THE ROBERT W WILSON CHARITABLE TRUST ($17,833,184). 102 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WORLD MONUMENTS FUND INC have?
- IRS filings report 178 organizations giving $47,026,580 in grants to WORLD MONUMENTS FUND INC, 102 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WORLD MONUMENTS FUND INC?
- THE ROBERT W WILSON CHARITABLE TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $17,833,184 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WORLD MONUMENTS FUND INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2019–2025), and the filings of 178 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