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WORLD FOUNDATION FOR GIRL GUIDES AND GIRL SCOUTS INC

EIN 23-7147834 NEW YORK, NY

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Revenue 2024
$1,487,954
Expenses 2024
$1,378,964

Program services were 92.6% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
Classification
1000
Street
420 FIFTH AVENUE

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).

Other organizations at this address

4 other organizations in the IRS Business Master File list the same street address. matched by us

We match the street line and ZIP code as the IRS gives them, ignoring case and outer spaces and nothing else, so "AVE" and "AVENUE" count as different streets and this list can miss some. A shared address can mean related organizations or a shared office, but it can also be a registered agent, a mail drop or a service provider holding mail for unrelated clients. It is not, by itself, evidence that two organizations are connected.

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

THE WORLD FOUNDATION'S MISSION IS TO SUPPORT PROJECTS AND PROGRAMS UNDERTAKEN BY THE WAGGGS, INCLUDING THE GIRL SCOUTS OF THE USA, "TO ENABLE GIRLS AND YOUNG WOMEN TO DEVELOP THEIR FULLEST POTENTIAL AS RESPONSIBLE CITIZENS OF THE WORLD."

Activities or mission (Part I)

TO SUPPORT PROJECTS AND PROGRAMS THAT BENEFIT GIRLS AND YOUNG WOMEN IN GIRL GUIDES/GIRL SCOUTS.

  • THE WORLD FOUNDATION INVESTS IN GIRLS TO BECOME GLOBAL LEADERS BY RAISING PUBLIC AWARENESS AND AWARDING GRANTS TO OUR TWO CORPORATE MEMBERS, WAGGGS AND GSUSA. THE GRANTS AWARDED SUPPORT WAGGGS AND GSUSA PROGRAMS THAT CREATE OPPORTUNITIES FOR GIRLS TO GROW AS PEOPLE AND LEADERS, BUILDING SKILLS IN RESILIENCY AND EMPATHY TO BECOME GLOBAL CITIZENS. OUR GRANTS SUPPORT FUNDING FOR (1) YOUNG WOMEN TO VOLUNTEER AS STAFF AT WORLD CENTERS ON FIVE CONTINENTS TO BUILD SKILLS IN DELIVERING PROGRAMING FOR VISITORS FROM AROUND THE WORLD; (2) DELEGATIONS OF GIRLS TO PRESENT AT THE UN COMMISSION ON THE STATUS OF WOMEN AND THE UN CLIMATE CHANGE CONFERENCE (COP); (3) PROGRAMING SUPPORT AND SCHOLARSHIPS FOR PARTICIPANTS TO ATTEND/TRAVEL TO CROSS CULTURAL EVENTS ON LEADERSHIP, ENVIRONMENTAL STEWARDSHIP, OUTDOOR SKILLS (CAMPING) AND CULTURAL DISCOVERY, AT THE WAGGGS WORLD CENTERS OR GLOBAL EVENTS SPONSORED BY GSUSA, INCLUDING EVENTS HOSTED BY USA GIRL SCOUTS OVERSEAS; AND (4) PROJECTS THAT STRENGTHEN MEMBER ORGANIZATIONS AS WELL AS THE DEVELOPMENT OF NEW APPROACHES TO REACH GIRLS AND YOUNG WOMEN AND NEW APPROACHES TO GROWING AND LEARNING FOR THE 11.2 MILLION WAGGGS MEMBERS IN 154 COUNTRIES.

    Expenses $1,276,913 · Grants $1,275,310

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Linda Foreman

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    25
  • Sandy Thomas

    VICE-PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    8
  • Ellen Petrino

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    20
  • Katie Singer

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4
  • Barbara Grant Schliebe

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4
  • Susan Anderson

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4
  • Sandy Craighead

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4
  • Joyce Knoll

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4
  • Sue McNabb

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4
  • Laura Robert-Rivera

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4
  • Diane Saber

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4
  • Barb Sirvis

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4
  • Alice Hahn

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4
  • Jennifer Allebach

    DIRECTOR (JOINED 3/25)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4
  • Marnye Hall

    DIRECTOR (JOINED 3/25)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4
  • Amanda Miscisin

    DIRECTOR (THROUGH 3/25)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4
  • Kristen Grennan

    DIRECTOR (THROUGH 3/25)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

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

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $1,487,954
    Expenses
    $1,378,964
    Contributions
    $1,324,493
    Grants paid
    $1,275,310
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $920,325
    Expenses
    $1,405,268
    Contributions
    $920,078
    Grants paid
    $1,343,531
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $2,226,873
    Expenses
    $909,637
    Contributions
    $2,106,396
    Grants paid
    $823,399

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

    Revenue
    $2,024,598
    Expenses
    $1,619,711
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,746,923
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $814,541
    Expenses
    $902,995
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,774,864
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $626,730
    Expenses
    $397,131
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,919,814
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $679,002
    Expenses
    $546,024
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,368,717
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $574,453
    Expenses
    $342,927
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,445,790
  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $353,399
    Expenses
    $435,278
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,321,460

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

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Grants received

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

Declared on its 2024 return

  • GIRL SCOUTS OF THE USA

    501(C)(3) · TO PROMOTE GIRL SCOUTING · NY

  • WORLD ASSOCIATION OF GIRL GUIDES AND GIRL SCOUTS

    TO PROMOTE GIRL GUIDING AND GIRL SCOUTING · UK

Declared as related by

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

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

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 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.