Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
WORTHWHILE WEAR INC
WORTHWHILE WEAR INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 35 organizations whose IRS filings report $852,380 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($165,800). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 58% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $3.0M
- Funders on record
- 35
- Grants received
- $852k
- Net assets
- $1.5M
What Worthwhile Wear Inc does
Mission
Worthwhile wear exists to reach and restore women that have been affected by human trafficking, both labor and sex trafficking, by providing them with comprehensive care, which includes housing, employment, counseling, and various other services. This holistic care approach presents the women with the best opportunity to heal from the significant trauma that they have experienced.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
The organization sells merchandise produced from its overseas vocational training and employment contracts as well as items crafted by participants in organizations that have a similar mission. They also collect donated clothing and household goods. The goods are sold through the organization's thrift stores located in bucks and montgomery county, pennsylvania. The thrift stores are operated to support the organization's programs. Additionally, worthwhile wear is able to offer employment to women enrolled in the well housing program by employing them in the thrift store. Worthwhile wear opened up a second thrift store location in 2022 in collegeville, pa.
$1,518,232 spent$2,078,019 earned by the program66% of program spendingThe well is a home located in bucks county established to provide housing to assist trafficking survivors, both sex and labor trafficking, to cope with their past and prepare for their future through education, employment, and housing assistance. The program provides housing for up to two years at no cost to the recipient.the well program expanded in 2022 by opening up meleny's house which provides apartment style living to women in the leadership phase of the well program.
$583,012 spent$30,941 earned by the program25% of program spendingWorth-it is another program for survivors of sexual exploitation. It is designed to connect participants to area service providors that can meet their specialized needs and educate them about the legal issues pertaining to their situations. Worth-it runs in various locations and is offered as a multi-week program several times each year. Women who complete the worth-it program also have the ooprtunity to apply to the well housing program.
$159,000 spent7% of program spendingTo educate the public through videography and other means to educate and create awareness about human trafficking and to help the community understand the programs that worthwhile provides.
$38,107 spent2% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,298,351.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2021 to 2022, from $539k to $991k (+84%).
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 9% · 2022 1% · 2023 13%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
30% of WORTHWHILE WEAR INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (97% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 5 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
Daniel Emrsr
Executive director
Board chair
John Wahlers
Board chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $16k → $108k.
12 of 35 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 58% 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 WORTHWHILE WEAR INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 35 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
WORTHWHILE WEAR INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 19% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
75% 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 WORTHWHILE WEAR INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 63% · 2018 49% · 2019 40% · 2020 29% · 2021 31% · 2022 33% · 2023 51% — 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
42% of WORTHWHILE WEAR INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 51% 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
58% of WORTHWHILE WEAR INC'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 $357k that is directly attributable, 65% of it comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $495k arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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
WORTHWHILE WEAR INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 1,608 international nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,608 international nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like WORTHWHILE WEAR 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 Pennsylvania
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
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 WORTHWHILE WEAR 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 WORTHWHILE WEAR INC?
- WORTHWHILE WEAR INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 35 organizations whose IRS filings report $852,380 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($165,800). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 58% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does WORTHWHILE WEAR INC have?
- IRS filings report 35 organizations giving $852,380 in grants to WORTHWHILE WEAR INC, 18 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WORTHWHILE WEAR INC?
- NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC is the largest funder on record, with $165,800 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WORTHWHILE WEAR INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 2020–2024), and the filings of 35 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