California · Nonprofit
WORLD TELEHEALTH INITIATIVE
WORLD TELEHEALTH INITIATIVE (California) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,607,412 to it, the largest being THE SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION ($435,000). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 80% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $983k
- Funders on record
- 22
- Grants received
- $1.6M
- Net assets
- $536k
What World Telehealth Initiative does
Mission
World Telehealth Initiative provides sustainable medical expertise to the world's most vulnerable communities to build local capacity and advance core health services through a network of volunteer healthcare professionals supported by telehealth technology.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Ukraine - wti established a national telehealth network in ukraine to deliver high-acuity clinical expertise and surgical mentoring in response to the humanitarian crisis. In partnership with the ministry of health, wti supports 26 hospitals and frontline sites, providing teleconsultation in trauma care, neurosurgery, and emergency medicine. This work has evolved into a long-term effort to strengthen ukraine's health system.
$366,145 spent52% of program spendingSub-saharan africa - wti expands access to specialty care across sub-saharan africa through telehealth programs in kenya, togo, and nigeria. In kenya, wti's tele-nephrology program connects local clinicians with international specialists to improve kidney disease management and dialysis care. Additional support in ob/gyn and pediatrics enables more accurate diagnosis and treatment of life-threatening conditions.
$168,991 spent24% of program spendingSouth & southeast asia - wti improves access to specialty care in bangladesh and bhutan through telehealth and training programs. In bangladesh, wti connects physicians at hope hospital and rohingya refugee camps with international specialists, providing free consultations for complex cases. In bhutan, wti implemented a telehealth-enabled ultrasound training program to address critical diagnostic gaps and improve patient outcomes.
$98,577 spent14% of program spendingWorld Telehealth Initiative operates 50 programs worldwide, delivering essential and often life-saving medical expertise to underserved communities. At their request, we connect low-resourced hospitals and clinics with humanitarian medical specialists across 50+ medical disciplines. This collaboration strengthens local clinicians' knowledge and skills, builds long-term health system capacity, and ensures sustainable access to quality care.
$70,412 spent10% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $704,125.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 $25k to $805k (+3144%).
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 2% · 2021 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of WORLD TELEHEALTH INITIATIVE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (83% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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
Sharon Allen
Chief executive officer
Board chair
Ron Werft Mph
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 14 funders, grant income rose $44k → $191k.
8 of 22 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 80% 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 TELEHEALTH INITIATIVE’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 TELEHEALTH INITIATIVE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 27% 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
87% 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 TELEHEALTH INITIATIVE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 78% · 2021 58% · 2022 35% · 2023 37% — diversifying over time.
“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
50% of WORLD TELEHEALTH INITIATIVE'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
80% of WORLD TELEHEALTH INITIATIVE'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 $329k that is directly attributable, 58% of it comes from funders outside California, across 6 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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 TELEHEALTH INITIATIVE has grown faster than three-quarters of the 8,464 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 8,464 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like WORLD TELEHEALTH INITIATIVE
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.
Where the money goes
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
55%
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 TELEHEALTH INITIATIVE: 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 TELEHEALTH INITIATIVE?
- WORLD TELEHEALTH INITIATIVE (California) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,607,412 to it, the largest being THE SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION ($435,000). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 80% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does WORLD TELEHEALTH INITIATIVE have?
- IRS filings report 22 organizations giving $1,607,412 in grants to WORLD TELEHEALTH INITIATIVE, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WORLD TELEHEALTH INITIATIVE?
- THE SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $435,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WORLD TELEHEALTH INITIATIVE 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2018–2025), and the filings of 22 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