Arizona · Nonprofit
WORLDATWORK
WORLDATWORK (Arizona) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $11,500 to it, the largest being TRUTH INITIATIVE FOUNDATION ($11,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $23M
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $12k
- Net assets
- $10.0M
What Worldatwork does
Mission
To sponsor and conduct educational conferences, seminars, workshops and symposia for purposes of informing members and other interested parties on current research, legislation and practices in all phases of employee reward programs (continued on schedule o)(continued) including compensation, wages, salaries, incentives, employee benefits and other related forms of employee remuneration.to encourage, promote, and publish research in the field of employee motivation, morale, behavior, performance appraisal, innovative pay and reward systems, productivity management techniques and other functions relative to compensation. To sponsor, support and distribute educational publications pertaining to compensation matters to members, schools, libraries, and other interested parties. To encourage, assist and participate with other educational institutions in stimulating interest in and providing curriculum assistance for courses in the field of compensation, rewards and motivation.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Education services: Worldatwork delivers educational courses, seminars, and training through a variety of channels in the fields of compensation, benefits and work-life.
$5,451,641 spent$7,499,245 earned by the program39% of program spendingConferences: Worldatwork hosts a total rewards conference annually, as well as smaller, regional conferences. Revenues include registration fees, sponsorship fees, and exhibit hall booth fees.
$4,854,808 spent$4,946,072 earned by the program35% of program spendingPublications: the organization produces and sells its own books, publications and advertising, publicity and career center revenue generated through these programs.
$1,731,185 spent$489,729 earned by the program13% of program spendingManagement of related entity
$7,006 spent$2,314,181 earned by the program0% of program spendingMembership: includes all annual dues and fees paid to the organizationby more than 16,000 members. Through memberships, subscribers receivedthe monthly magazine, workspan, access to Worldatwork databases andresources, and reduced prices on courses and seminars.
$1,788,603 spent$4,831,268 earned by the program13% of program spendingResearch & partnership revenue
$127,418 earned by the program
The 6 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $13,833,243.
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 2018 to 2019, from $19M to $23M (+24%).
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 12% · 2021 17%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
0% of WORLDATWORK’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (0% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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
T Scott Cawood
CEO
Board chair
Mary Lynn Fayoumi
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of WORLDATWORK’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.
Where its funders are
WORLDATWORK draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Arizona, across 1 state in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
WORLDATWORK runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 425 membership benefit nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 425 membership benefit nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Government funding WORLDATWORK receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $28k on record — $16k federal, $12k state.
- Department of the Treasury$11k
- Department of Labor$5k
- NJ$8k
- OK$4k
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 WORLDATWORK
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 Arizona
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
65% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 3 related entities
- World at Work Private Limited · disregarded
- Worldatwork Society of Certified Prof · exempt
- Worldatwork Foundation · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WORLDATWORK: 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 WORLDATWORK?
- WORLDATWORK (Arizona) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $11,500 to it, the largest being TRUTH INITIATIVE FOUNDATION ($11,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WORLDATWORK have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $11,500 in grants to WORLDATWORK.
- Who is the largest funder of WORLDATWORK?
- TRUTH INITIATIVE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $11,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WORLDATWORK find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Arizona. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 1 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