Minnesota · Nonprofit
WORLD POPULATION BALANCE
WORLD POPULATION BALANCE (Minnesota) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $223,453 to it, the largest being GASTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($83,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 82% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $235k
- Funders on record
- 16
- Grants received
- $223k
- Net assets
- $570k
What World Population Balance does
Mission
We inspirenarrative, behavioral, and system change that shrinks our human impact and elevates the rights and wellbeing of people, animals, and the planet.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Overshoot- tackles today's social and ecological crises driven by our excessive population and consumption and explores the paradigm shifts needed to bring our human footprint into balance with all life on earth.
$70,986 spent36% of program spendingAcademic writing and presentations - disseminating evidence-based research related to the organization's mission through published journals and through university, high school, and conference presentations
$37,069 spentof which $5,000 as grants$400 earned by the program19% of program spendingMedia publications and interviews - educating the mainstream through media outreach on issues related to organization's mission by writing and submitting opinion articles and letters to the editor, as well as participating in radio, tv, and film interviews
$36,911 spentof which $6,250 as grants18% of program spendingSocial media education - education through social media and newsletters covering the latest news and information related to the organization's mission.
$35,795 spent18% of program spendingBeyond pronatalism podcast - virtual narrative interviews with guests on the topic of pronatalism, which require preparation, recording, publication, and dissemination of the information.
$19,039 spent10% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $199,800.
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 2022 to 2023, from $167k to $585k (+251%).
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: 2020 4% · 2022 0% · 2023 0% · 2024 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of WORLD POPULATION BALANCE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (73% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 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
Nandita Bajaj
Executive director
Board chair
Lukas Eddy
Board chair and secretary
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $13k → $71k.
8 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 82% 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 POPULATION BALANCE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 15 of 16 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 POPULATION BALANCE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 37% of grant income and the top three 62%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
82% 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 POPULATION BALANCE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 49% · 2018 49% · 2019 54% · 2020 36% · 2021 81% · 2022 81% · 2023 76% — 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
56% of WORLD POPULATION BALANCE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 44% 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
82% of WORLD POPULATION BALANCE'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 $40k that is directly attributable, 61% of it comes from funders outside Minnesota, across 6 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $183k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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 POPULATION BALANCE holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 1,356 unclassified nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,356 unclassified nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like WORLD POPULATION BALANCE
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 Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
75%
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 POPULATION BALANCE: 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 POPULATION BALANCE?
- WORLD POPULATION BALANCE (Minnesota) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $223,453 to it, the largest being GASTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($83,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 82% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does WORLD POPULATION BALANCE have?
- IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $223,453 in grants to WORLD POPULATION BALANCE, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WORLD POPULATION BALANCE?
- GASTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $83,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WORLD POPULATION BALANCE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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 16 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