Minnesota · Nonprofit
World Savvy
World Savvy (Minnesota) receives grants from 63 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,660,410 to it, the largest being ENLIGHT FOUNDATION ($8,175,000). 35 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $5.2M
- Funders on record
- 63
- Grants received
- $14M
- Net assets
- $4.3M
What World Savvy does
Mission
World Savvy is a national nonprofit working with educators and community leaders to reimagine learning for the 21st century and create inclusive, future-ready schools where young people are prepared to thrive in a fast-changing world. We know students must graduate ready not only to succeed in the future, but also to take responsibility for a global community that will require even more resilient peacemakers, courageous problem solvers, and passionate leaders. That's why we're empowering educators to make school inclusive, relevant, and engaging for all students, inspiring them to learn, work, and thrive as responsible global citizens. Our program focuses on systems change by increasing student engagement, expanding educator capacity and cultural competence, and strengthening school and district leadership.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
World Savvy's program prepares students to thrive in our globally connected world by redesigning K-12 education to increase student engagement, expand educator capacity, and strengthen school and district leadership. World Savvy's approach to learning is based on the belief that students learn best when they are engaged in relevant and important issues that impact their communities and the world. We believe that students' lived experiences and perspectives are assets that can be leveraged in learning every day; however, in order to successfully reach diverse students in their classrooms, educators need support to teach in a way they did not learn while engaging students from communities to which they may not be native; more than 80% of K-12 educators in the US are white, serving a collective majority of minority students. World Savvy supports educators to create active, engaged, culturally-responsive classrooms where all students can thrive.Through all of our work, we strive to embed global competence into teaching, learning and culture so that everyone within a school community - students, educators, leaders and families - is actively supporting the development of the skills and…
$2,487,100 spentof which $177,930 as grants$325,420 earned by the program70% of program spendingWorld Savvy has experienced increased demand from school districts to provide services that lay the foundation for comprehensive school partnerships. We have expanded our programming to include leadership cohorts for district and school leaders. These cohorts are designed to create capacity across school districts to embed global competence into teaching, learning, and school culture. Through workshops, dialogue, and exploration, we lay the groundwork for deep and sustainable work with students, educators, and families. In addition, we create a professional community of school leaders that are committed to this work and can use one another as resources and support. We also support districts through the development of Profiles of a Graduate and Global Competence Readiness Assessments.
$634,622 spent$69,266 earned by the program18% of program spendingWorld Savvy has also seen increased interest in our Changemaker Hubs. Changemaker Hubs are day-long learning experiences that are designed to unleash the creativity of students, educators, school leaders, and community members as they come together across difference to think critically and creatively about the role of education in the modern world and how we can create a system that supports everyone.
$431,278 spent$2,465 earned by the program12% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,553,000.
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 2020 to 2021, from $1.8M to $6.5M (+270%).
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 11% · 2021 0% · 2022 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
89% of World Savvy’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (97% 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.
Board chair
Linda Ireland
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 16 funders to 23 funders, grant income rose $623k → $1.8M.
13 of 63 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 13% 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 Savvy’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 63 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 Savvy leans on a few funders — its largest provides 60% of grant income and the top three 73%; 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: 2017 32% · 2018 44% · 2019 37% · 2020 45% · 2021 34% · 2022 84% · 2023 54% — 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
54% of World Savvy's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% 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 Savvy draws 85% of its grant income from funders outside Minnesota, across 17 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.7M 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 Savvy is better cushioned than half of the 718 international nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 718 international nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like World Savvy
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
72% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
88%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 3 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for World Savvy: 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 Savvy?
- World Savvy (Minnesota) receives grants from 63 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,660,410 to it, the largest being ENLIGHT FOUNDATION ($8,175,000). 35 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does World Savvy have?
- IRS filings report 63 organizations giving $13,660,410 in grants to World Savvy, 35 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of World Savvy?
- ENLIGHT FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $8,175,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like World Savvy 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 63 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