California · Nonprofit
World Parks Inc
World Parks Inc (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,176 to it, the largest being James R Dougherty Jr Foundation Inc ($2,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $12k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $2k
- Net assets
- $134k
What World Parks Inc does
Mission
The specific purposes of this corporation are to promote, support, facilitate the establishment of, and establish world parks, which will consist of large tracts of land on each of the continents, set aside and maintained by the international community, in the parks natural state, unencumbered by the inventions of modern man, under rules providing for the parks permanent preservation as wilderness areas, so that future generations will always have access to and the ability to learn about and enjoy the original natural world.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
World Parks, Inc. conducted programs in four countries in 2024: USA, Kenya, Cameroon, Haiti. The overall goal was to build a base for cooperation, incorporating World Parks Kenya, hiring chapter managers (Cameroon & Kenya), facilitate tree planting projects and commence negotiations with Hirola Conservancy in Kenya.Here is a breakdown of the projects:USA: Hired Director of Science for the South American Wildlife Corridor project, an Explorers Club Flag expedition-based project. Scientist contacted for cooperation in Argentina. Kenya: Incorporated World Parks, Inc. Kenya. Appointed Board of Directors. Began negotiations with Ishaqbini Community on an MOU concerning critically endangered Hirola.Cameroon: Appointed project leader. Planted 2200 trees in Rhumsiki. Purchase of motor tricycle for watering plantation. Set up website.Haiti: Appointed project leader. Planted 2000 trees. Located and signed willing landowners. Set up website.
$58,717 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $58,717.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2024, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2024, 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 $202k to $134k (−34%).
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 Parks Inc’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (39% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $7 → $26.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 8% 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 Parks Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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 Parks Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 92% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 95% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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.
Where its funders are
World Parks Inc draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 1 state in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $176 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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 Parks Inc's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,557 recreation & sports nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like World Parks 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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
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 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for World Parks 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 Parks Inc?
- World Parks Inc (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,176 to it, the largest being James R Dougherty Jr Foundation Inc ($2,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does World Parks Inc have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $2,176 in grants to World Parks Inc, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of World Parks Inc?
- James R Dougherty Jr Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $2,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like World Parks Inc 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.
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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 2024–2025), and the filings of 2 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