Global Business Coalition for Education Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 454960988
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2012–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- New York, NY, USA
- Phone
- 2125215451
- Rating
- 80
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Fund Raising and/or Fund Distribution
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $2,601,630
- Expenses
- $2,191,583
- Assets
- $3,164,667
- Liabilities
- $638,515
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JUSTIN W VAN FLEET (CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- JUSTIN W VAN FLEET (CEO): $241,135 total reported compensation
- EMILY FRIEDMAN (DIRECTOR): $205,141 total reported compensation
- ANNA SHAKAROVA (DIRECTOR): $170,620 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Theirworld USA creates awareness, raises financial resources, and takes action to end the education crisis in the u.s. And around the world. The organization's mission is to ensure that all children have the best start in life, a safe place to learn, and skills for the future. The organization supports efforts to engage young people and the business community in education, using evidence and research to guide its work. Theirworld USA also engages in global education projects and campaigns aligned with theirworld.
What it reported doing in 2025
Theirworld USA's key programs include: the best start in life: the organization supports early childhood development and education activities aligned with the act for early years campaign. This global campaign aims to secure quality early childhood development, care and education for every child during the first five years of life. The campaign actively engages a global network of civil society organizations, youth and business leaders. Continued on schedule oa safe place to learn: the organization aims to ensure that all children have a safe learning environment, including for children whose education is disrupted because of disaster or conflict. When a disaster strikes, children can lose out on years of schooling. In some circumstances, they become vulnerable to trafficking, child labor and other dangers. For a young person or family in crisis, education provides a safe space, a sense of normalcy and growing hope. For a community, education serves as the bedrock to rebuild even stronger economically and socially.skills for the future: the organization works to address the youth skills and employment by harnessing the innovation and creativity of youth and industry leaders to forge new partnerships to bridge the gap between education and participation in the economy.through its global business coalition for education activities, the organization works with global business community and industry leaders to build a movement of businesses committed to ending the global education crisis and unleashing the potential of the next generation. These activities broker relationships between diverse stakeholders and support companies' implementation of social impact programs which leverage sustainable results for children and youth. For example:-the disaster relief and education response fund offers companies an immediate, innovative and impactful way to channel support for education in humanitarian crisis.-the youth skills and employment accelerator initiative is a network of leading community organizations focused on delivering quality, innovative, results-oriented skills programming for youth in the united states. Each year, select organizations gain access to resources, expertise and partnerships with the private sector to create workforce opportunities for all american youth. Now in its fourth year, the accelerator has engaged 58 organizations in 24 states, which collectively reach over 250,000 young people with plans to expand the program internationally.-the partnership hub brings together businesses across geographies and sectors to shape policies, build programs and develop financial models that impact education for children and youth. The hub harnesses the organization's strategic advisory expertise, network of businesses and trade associations and affiliations with international organizations to drive progress in education.-the roundtables and events activities build the evidence base of best practice in support of education. Recent themes ranged from the implications of artificial intelligence (ai) on education and skills in the african region to how to ensure youth skills match the needs of the private sector.theirworld USA also supports youth development through the global youth ambassador program, providing young people who are passionate about ending the education crisis with the skills, knowledge and community to unlock big change at a local and global level. Participants in the program - young people ages 18 to 28 - are equipped with tools, information and opportunities to work in their local communities and on global platforms to ensure all young people have access to quality education from the early years through adulthood.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 96% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 85% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
- 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. The filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 82
- Transparency & Controls: 68
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 51
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 77.1%; rating input score 77
- Program expense ratio: 90.3%; rating input score 90
- Fundraising efficiency: $64.29 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 83; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 93.3%; rating input score 93; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 4 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 67
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
- Written employment contract: Pass
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: 1 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 12
- Claims monitoring procedures: Pass
- Requires narrative reports: Fail
- Conducts field audits: Fail
- May suspend future funding: Fail
- Requires financial reports: Fail
- Conducts site visits: Fail
- Requires grant agreements: Fail
- May require repayment: Fail
- Grant itemization coverage: 69.6%; rating input score 70; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 88
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 15.8%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.44; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.2; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 28.1%; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 7% per year; rating input score 100; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 4.7% per year; rating input score 100; 35th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 10.7% per year; rating input score 100; 60th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 77.1% of revenue deployed · 90.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 6 of 6 board members independent · 7 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $2M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $241K · 9 people listed · 4 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $258K reported
- Consistency: 36 of 37 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 10 filed schedules · includes major donors, foreign activity, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2012 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 11 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 4 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight: 7 of 8 not reported.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: CEO compensation review process not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 47/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 9/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 35/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.