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WORLD OF CHILDREN INC

EIN 31-1772381 LA JOLLA, CA

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Revenue 2023
$48,793
Expenses 2023
$170,048

Program services were 58.5% of total expenses calculated — Part III's total program service expenses over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
Street
7660-H FAY AVE 349

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2023

Primary exempt purpose

THE WORLD OF CHILDREN IS DEDICATED TO DRAMATICALLY IMPROVING CHILDREN'S LIVES BY IDENTIFYING AND RECOGNIZING EXTRAORDINARY INDIVIDUALS WHO WORK ON BEHALF OF CHILDREN IN NEED. WE ARE COMMITTED THROUGH OUR AWARDS PROGRAM TO SEARCH THE UNITED STATES AND THE REST OF THE WORLD FOR THESE SELFLESS CHANGEMAKERS. OUR AWARDS AND FUNDS EXPAND AND LEVERAGE THEIR VITAL WORK, THUS CREATING A UNIQUE, WORLDWIDE NETWORK OF CHILD ADVOCATES.

  • WORLD OF CHILDREN IDENTIFIES, FUNDS, EDUCATES AND ELEVATES HUMANITARIANS AND THEIR PROGRAMS FROM AROUND THE GLOBE. THE WORLD OF CHILDREN IMPRIMATUR OF EXCELLENCE SUPPORTED BY ITS INTENSIVE INDEPENDENT INVESTIGATIONS IS CRITICAL TO THE FUTURE SUCCESS OF THE PROGRAMS OF ORGANIZATIONS IDENTIFIED. IN ADDITION TO CASH, WORLD OF CHILDREN PROVIDES SIGNIFICANT OTHER RESOURCES REQUESTED BY AND INTEGRAL TO THE SUCCESS OF THESE PROGRAMS SUCH AS COMPUTERS, SCHOOL SUPPLIES, CLOTHING, MEDICAL SUPPLIES, ETC.

    Expenses $99,454 · Grants $5,000

As filed on the 2023 return.

Officers and directors · 2023

As listed in Part VII of the 2023 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Harry Leibowitz

    CO-CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Compensation
    $0
    Benefit plans
    not reported
    Expense account
    not reported
    Hours/week
    20
  • Kay Isaacson-Leibowitz

    CO-CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Compensation
    $0
    Benefit plans
    not reported
    Expense account
    not reported
    Hours/week
    20
  • Ranjan Manoranjan

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Compensation
    $0
    Benefit plans
    not reported
    Expense account
    not reported
    Hours/week
    5
  • Roberta Romberg

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Compensation
    $0
    Benefit plans
    not reported
    Expense account
    not reported
    Hours/week
    5
  • Jill Beraud

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Compensation
    $0
    Benefit plans
    not reported
    Expense account
    not reported
    Hours/week
    1
  • Francis Fraenkel

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Compensation
    $0
    Benefit plans
    not reported
    Expense account
    not reported
    Hours/week
    1
  • Bertan Kalatchi

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Compensation
    $0
    Benefit plans
    not reported
    Expense account
    not reported
    Hours/week
    1
  • Sue Steinberg

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Compensation
    $0
    Benefit plans
    not reported
    Expense account
    not reported
    Hours/week
    1
  • Stephanie March

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Compensation
    $0
    Benefit plans
    not reported
    Expense account
    not reported
    Hours/week
    1
  • Molly Eldredge

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Compensation
    $0
    Benefit plans
    not reported
    Expense account
    not reported
    Hours/week
    10

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2023
    Revenue
    $48,793
    Expenses
    $170,048
    Contributions
    $46,924
    Grants paid
    not reported
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $487,965
    Expenses
    $467,330
    Contributions
    $487,915
    Grants paid
    $272,500

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $59,517
    Expenses
    $108,792
    Assets (EOY)
    $122,406
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $341,166
    Expenses
    $779,517
    Assets (EOY)
    $157,065
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,486,397
    Expenses
    $1,642,952
    Assets (EOY)
    $640,361
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,025,320
    Expenses
    $1,790,485
    Assets (EOY)
    $906,992
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,491,910
    Expenses
    $1,630,893
    Assets (EOY)
    $898,244
  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,542,918
    Expenses
    $1,735,452
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,096,252
  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,382,896
    Expenses
    $1,382,880
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,312,772

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.

Grants made

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Not present in the most recent drop.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 9 November 2026 and read 9 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2023, the newest we have parsed for this organization.