World Cares Center Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 412024802
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2013–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2022
- Location
- New York, NY, USA
- Phone
- 2125637570
- Rating
- 80
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Disaster Preparedness and Relief Services
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $291,228
- Expenses
- $306,940
- Assets
- $344,420
- Liabilities
- $36,656
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
People named in this filing
- LISA ORLOFF (Founder & Chair)
- JOHN TROTTMAN (Treasurer)
- ALISON BIDDLE (Board Member)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
World Cares Center's mission is to reduce the harm, suffering, and loss caused by disasters through the empowerment of underserved, at risk communities to prevent everyday accidents and react as educated and skilled ready responders when disasters occur.
What it reported doing in 2024
World Cares Center ensures that those constituents are trained, prepared and ready to respond to crisis locally by leveraging existing resources. Through training, support, and coordination, WCC empowers these spontaneous volunteers and disconnected communities to effectively prepare for, respond to and recover from disaster by training thousands of citizens, community leaders and not-for-profit groups to work together during catastrophic times. We refer to this cadre of individuals as Ready Responders.World Cares Centers three focus areas are: I.Training citizens to be safe and effective disaster volunteers, and local leaders to emerge as disaster managers able to lead their constituents in a proactive educated and equipped manner. WCC works with these leaders to develop their own community response plans.II.Bridging the communication divide amongst stakeholders in the disaster response ecosystem through the provision of a virtual emergency operations center.III.Engaging all partners and trained community members in a physical disaster simulation and exercise to practice their skills and build upon lessons learned.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 79% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% 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.
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 program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 77
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 94
- Sustainability: 38
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 82.4%; rating input score 82
- Program expense ratio: 77.9%; rating input score 78
- Fundraising efficiency: $12.33 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- 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: 6 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 86
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- 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: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -5.4%; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.12; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.11; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -12.1% per year; rating input score 0; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -6.4% per year; rating input score 0; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 10.8% per year; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 82.4% of revenue deployed · 77.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 10 of 10 board members independent · 6 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $239K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 21 of 21 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 8 filing years from 2013 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 45/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 29/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 44/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 26/100.