World Research Foundation

Analysis

World Research Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Sedona, AZ. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in February 1985, 41 years ago. Its declared purposes cover medical research, which this site groups under health and saving lives. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (donations from the general public) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, World Research Foundation reported income of $185k and spending of $189k, spending 103% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $140k to $185k (+31%), an average of +7.1% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income rose by 107%. Over the whole period it spent 98% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, World Research Foundation sits at the 39th percentile: it is larger than about 39% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 52nd percentile, and in the 49th percentile within AZ. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Ladies Leukemia League Inc ($184k), Lubbock-Cooper Scholarship Foundation ($185k) and Counseling Center of Concord ($184k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 99% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $149k. At year end it held assets of $236k against liabilities of $5,522, net assets of $231k. It reported 3 employees.