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World Central Kitchen Inc
Washington, DC · EIN 27-3521132. Reported 54 grants totalling $2,374,132 to 53 organizations across tax years 2021-2023, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For World Central Kitchen Inc, the IRS classifies it under international affairs rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE Q33) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 53 distinct organizations, with 21% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 2% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 2 year-to-year transitions. That is below the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% private foundations manage. A list that turns over this much is one a newcomer can realistically join.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $19,845. Half of what it reported fell between $15,000 and $20,000; the smallest was $6,000 and the largest $500,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ministerio Buen Samaritano Marc Marcos a Rivera Cordova Inc | Manati, PR | $500,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Building Markets Ltd | Brooklyn, NY | $280,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| American Near East Refugee Aid Inc | Washington, DC | $250,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Bipartisan Policy Center Inc | Washington, DC | $250,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Bokitas Foundation Inc | Coral Gables, FL | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Wayuu Taya Foundation Inc | Riverview, FL | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Yachtaid Global | Cardiff, CA | $55,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Haitian Health Foundation Inc | Norwich, CT | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Hero Foundation Inc | Coral Springs, FL | $35,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Virgin Islands Farmers | Frederiksted, VI | $30,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Los Huevos De Lencha Inc | Cabo Rojo, PR | $26,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Charlotte Area Fund Inc 1326 | Charlotte, NC | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| East Side Neighborhood Service Inc | Minneapolis, MN | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Agro Tropical Inc | Santa Isabel, PR | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Colectivo El Ancon De Loiza Incorporado | San Juan, PR | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Hacienda Jaicoa | Moca, PR | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Hacienda Maria Luisa Inc | Dorado, PR | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Haser Inc | San Juan, PR | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Hidrorganica Inc | San Juan, PR | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Ja Processing | Aibonito, PR | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| La Tres Once Inc | Sabana Hoyos, PR | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Nostra Raza Corp | San German, PR | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Sister Twister Frozen Dlites | St Thomas, VI | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Wonderens Foods | Mayaguez, PR | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Sejah Farm of the VI | Kingshill, VI | $19,940 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| De Mi Tierra a Mi Pueblo Corp | Caguas, PR | $19,900 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Di Amalfi Pr LLC | Mayaguez, PR | $19,890 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Apiario Puente Real | Moca, PR | $19,800 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Finca De Abuelo Miguel | Dorado, PR | $19,730 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Finca Brutal | San Sebastian, PR | $19,520 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Granja Loma Linda Corp | Las Marias, PR | $19,300 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Kallaloo Farms | Christiansted St Croix, VI | $19,270 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Terra Viva Farm LLC | Morovis, PR | $18,900 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Off Their Plate | Boston, MA | $18,747 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Lta Agriculture | Toa Baja, PR | $18,564 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| My Brothers Workshop | St Thomas, VI | $18,400 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Karibe Kombucha LLC | Rincon, PR | $17,685 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Agroempresas Las Delicias | Mayaguez, PR | $17,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Productos Pepa LLC | Hatillo, PR | $16,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Viveros Del Norte Inc | Sabana Hoyos, PR | $15,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Siembra Boricua Inc | Las Marias, PR | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Rimco LLC | San Juan, PR | $14,830 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Apario Guare | San Lorenzo, PR | $14,800 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Ladrido LLC | Aguadilla, PR | $13,380 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Sugar Brown Farms LLC | St Thomas, VI | $13,360 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Corporacion De Servicios De Salud Y Desarrollo Socioeconomico El Otoao | Utuado, PR | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Green Good Product | Cabo Rojo, PR | $7,725 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| La Fundadora | Moca, PR | $7,200 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Finca Las Margaritas | Coamo, PR | $7,120 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Healthy Harvest Farm | St Thomas, VI | $7,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Refrigerama Inc | Catano, PR | $6,671 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Lourdes Perez Ruiz Inc | Lares, PR | $6,400 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Agroempresas Atabey Inc | Santa Isabel, PR | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
1 of 53 (2%) received money in more than one year over the 3 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.
- Building Markets Ltd
PROVIDING FOOD FOR DISPLACED/HUNGRY IN TURKIYE - American Near East Refugee Aid
EMERGENCY RELIEF MEALS - GAZA - Bipartisan Policy Center
FOOD & NUTRITION SECURITY TASK FORCE - Hero Foundation Inc
EMERGENCY RELIEF - HAITI EARTHQUAKE - Colectivo El Ancon
KITCHEN EQUIPMENT AND INFRASTRUCTURE - Finca De Abuelo Miguel
CHICKEN CART AND FEEDING SUPPLIES
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 15 of 53 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 26 | $937,437 | $19,515 |
| 2022 | 25 | $1,106,695 | $19,890 |
| 2023 | 3 | $330,000 | $25,000 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
45% of its giving went to organizations in Puerto Rico. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available that two funders have overlapping priorities -- and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.
How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $19,845 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Puerto Rico.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from World Central Kitchen Inc's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
Address of record on the latest return: Pmb 2124 2001 L Street Nw Suite, Washington, DC, 20036.
EIN 27-3521132 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this
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