Worldshapers
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 994203604
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2024–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- New York, NY, USA
- Phone
- 2012144742
- Rating
- 52
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Printing, Publishing
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $400,000
- Expenses
- $63,638
- Assets
- $354,534
- Liabilities
- $18,172
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MIKKO JARVENPAA (PRESIDENT & DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- MIKKO JARVENPAA (PRESIDENT & DIRECTOR): $18,000 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Worldshapers promotes a more equitable world by empowering nonfiction authors in global resilence, animal protection and civic engagement through education, representation, and outreach. In our first year, we contracted our inagural authors, built organizational infrastructure- financial, legal and operational systems overseen by a volunteer board - and developed a program of framework focused on market reserch, writing, and promotion tools.
What it reported doing in 2024
Animal protection, civic engagement and global resilience based on assessments of their significance, their relative neglectedness and the extent that changes in culture and discourse can create meaningful improvements.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. 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: 17
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 69
- Sustainability: 74
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 2.4%; rating input score 2
- Program expense ratio: 14.8%; rating input score 15
- Fundraising efficiency: $615.38 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 96; 96th 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: 2 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 25
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Fail
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 84.1%; rating input score 98; 98th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 5.57; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.05; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: Limited
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 2.4% of revenue deployed · 14.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 3 of 3 board members independent · 2 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $9K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $18K · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 22 of 22 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- 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 2/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 15/100.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 7 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 32/100.