World Education

Legal name: World Education Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
131804349
IRS 990 coverage
2011–2022
Official website data refreshed
Aug 2026
Forms available
Form 990 2022, Form 990-T 2022
Location
Boston, MA, USA
Phone
6174829485
Rating
77
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
International Development

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$48,101,068
Expenses
$48,262,709
Assets
$0
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2022. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

25 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • MARGARET CROTTY (PRESIDENT AND CEO)
  • DANIEL MACNEIL (VICE PRESIDENT)

Highest reported compensation

  • DANIEL MACNEIL (VICE PRESIDENT): $203,299 total reported compensation
  • DAVID C NOYES (PROGRAM DIRECTOR): $190,553 total reported compensation
  • SUZANNE M VAN HOOK THRU 0423 (DIRECTOR OF FINANCE & OPERATIONS, AF): $184,274 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2022. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

World Education advances lifelong learning, digital learning, and AI for learning and work by helping educators, institutions, and communities adapt to evolving skill demands.

What it reported doing in 2022

Africa programs: world education inc.'s africa division supports a variety of education programming in uganda, ghana, mozambique, cote d'ivoire, benin, and mali. These programs involve both formal education and non-formal education support and serve both adults and children as well as the ministries that oversee their well-being and education provision. Africa division's formal education support includes teacher training in early grade reading and math, early childhood education, bilingual literacy, and community mobilization through capacity building of parent teacher associations/school management committees. The non-formal education work usually involves the provision of functional literacy to out of school children or illiterate adults so that they can either access formal education opportunities or better income generation opportunities. The cornerstone of much of our work is our sensitivity to and purposeful integration of gender issues, specifically around women's empowerment and girl's access to education.

Operating model

Revenue model
Grant-funded. 85% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
Distribution model
Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 68% for direct work, and 32% for grants.

The verdict

SUPPORTED - 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 expenses are high relative to revenue.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 82
  • Transparency & Controls: 65
  • Accountability: 95
  • Sustainability: 23
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 80.5%; rating input score 80
  • Program expense ratio: 80.2%; rating input score 80
  • Fundraising efficiency: $2,211.59 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 98; 98th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 1 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 17
    • Compensation committee: Missing
    • Independent consultant: Missing
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
    • Written employment contract: Missing
    • Compensation survey or study: Pass
    • Board or committee approval: Missing
  • 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 72nd 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; 66th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 8 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 89
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: Pass
    • Other executive compensation review process: Fail
    • 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 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 2.6%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 2.2% per year; rating input score 100; 26th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 3.4% per year; rating input score 100; 34th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 1.3% per year; rating input score 100; 16th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • What they do: 3 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 17 operating locations identified
  • Where the money goes: 80.5% of revenue deployed · 80.2% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 11 of 11 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $38.7M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $203K · 25 people listed · 1 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $2.2M reported
  • Consistency: 28 of 28 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 9 filed schedules · includes major donors, foreign activity, grants, and executive pay
  • Filing history: 12 filing years from 2011 to 2022
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 10 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.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • High — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight: 7 of 8 not reported.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 31/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 0/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.