World at Hand
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 853176673
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2023–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2022
- Location
- Denver, CO, USA
- Phone
- 7205154523
- Rating
- 51
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Scholarships, Student Financial Aid Services, Awards
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $54,488
- Expenses
- $47,771
- Assets
- $17,832
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Shawn Wall (Executive Director)
People named in this filing
- Shawn Wall (Executive Director)
- Kevin Wilson (Board Chair)
- Christina Hadera (Board Secretary)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
World at Hand is a charitable and educational nonprofit organization whose mission is to support low-income and historically underrepresented students in accessing cross-cultural and global educational experiences that foster long-term personal, academic, and professional growth. The organization advances its exempt purpose through the Global Scholars Pathway, which provides structured access to international education through informational sessions, preparatory coursework, passport assistance, study abroad scholarships, and post-experience leadership and professional development programming. In 2024, World at Hand received the Institute of International Education Empower Award in recognition of its access-focused programming. The organization also develops the Rural-Urban Exchange, a Colorado-based cross-community leadership and service initiative for high school students, and hosts Community College Virtual Study Abroad Fairs to expand access points for community college students.
What it reported doing in 2025
Other Program Services The organization conducted informational sessions reaching approximately 230 students to introduce pathways to international education and global learning opportunities. Online preparatory programs supported 25 students with foundational knowledge related to study abroad planning, international travel readiness, budgeting, and documentation requirements. The organization hosted a student intern in 2025 to support marketing and communications activities related to program outreach and student engagement. The organization also launched a pilot Virtual Community College Study Abroad Fair in Colorado in collaboration with three international education providers, one four-year institution, and two community colleges. The initiative expanded access points for community college students and promoted awareness of study abroad opportunities within participating institutions.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 63% for direct work, and 37% for grants.
The verdict
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 21
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 46
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 19.8%; rating input score 20
- Program expense ratio: 22.4%; rating input score 22
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 12.3%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.37; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 13.6%; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 101% per year; rating input score 100; 97th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 101.7% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 32.1% per year; rating input score 100; 90th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 19.8% of revenue deployed · 22.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 4 filed program accomplishments · $11K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2023 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 20/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 22/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 26/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 9/100.