World Food Program USA
Legal name: Friends of the World Food Program Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 133843435
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Washington, DC, USA
- Phone
- 2026273737
- Rating
- 81
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Human Service Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $129,769,960
- Expenses
- $129,417,164
- Assets
- $83,230,429
- Liabilities
- $55,018,612
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
25 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- BARRON SEGAR (PRESIDENT & CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- BARRON SEGAR (PRESIDENT & CEO): $719,538 total reported compensation
- CLAUDIO SILVA (CFO & COO): $439,580 total reported compensation
- DOROTA D AMIN (CHIEF PHILANTHROPY OFFICER): $357,547 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To mobilize American resources—financial, political, and technical—to support the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) in its mission to end global hunger.
What it reported doing in 2024
Public policy: wfp USA educates members of congress and other officials about international hunger issues and specific policies that could improve u.s. Government efforts to address global hunger. Wfp USA helps highlight wfp's funding challenges and shortfalls, serving as a bridge of information between the agency and congress. Wfp USA also advocates for sufficient resources to ensure that the u.s. Government continues to provide global leadership in reaching vulnerable populations in need around the world. To build strong support for u.s. Leadership in addressing global hunger, wfp USA collaborates with and mobilizes opinion leaders, nonprofits, coalitions and others.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 99% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 82% of its reported program spending out as grants.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 83
- Transparency & Controls: 74
- Accountability: 96
- Sustainability: 32
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 88.1%; rating input score 88
- Program expense ratio: 88.2%; rating input score 88
- Fundraising efficiency: $9.06 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 3 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 50
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: 2 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 25
- Claims monitoring procedures: Pass
- Requires narrative reports: Limited
- Conducts field audits: Limited
- May suspend future funding: Limited
- Requires financial reports: Pass
- Conducts site visits: Limited
- Requires grant agreements: Limited
- May require repayment: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 94.1%; rating input score 94; 45th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 0.3%; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.64; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.66; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 2.2%; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 20.8% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 14.2% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 15.1% per year; rating input score 100; 86th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 2 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 5 operating locations identified
- Where the money goes: 88.1% of revenue deployed · 88.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 16 of 17 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $114.1M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $720K · 25 people listed · 3 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $1.4M reported
- Consistency: 41 of 41 current checks pass
- Schedules: 10 filed schedules · includes major donors, foreign activity, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 14 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 6 filed related-organization links
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 39/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 33/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 25/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 24/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 51/100.