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What a Federation's Numbers Can and Cannot Say

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World Vision's own public materials often cite a figure of 335 million vulnerable children reached, a number meant to convey the scale of a hundred-country federation in a single headline. That figure describes impact through policy advocacy and systemic change as much as direct service, and the same organization separately cites a related but distinct 223 million reached through advocacy campaigns alone, without publishing a methodology that lets a reader tell how much of either number is direct beneficiary contact and how much is broader reach. Rather than repeat a headline figure that cannot be checked against a clear definition, the more defensible number available is the audited one.

That audited figure belongs to World Vision Inc., the founding and largest single national support office, based in Federal Way, Washington, not to the roughly 100-office global federation as a whole: total revenue of 1,423,305,144 US dollars and total expenses of 1,423,738,245 US dollars for the fiscal year ended 30 September 2025, with contributions making up 98.5 percent of revenue. That is a real and substantial figure, but it is one national office's audited accounts inside a federation that files no single consolidated worldwide total, a structural fact about how the organization reports itself rather than a gap in its transparency.

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World Vision Inc. IRS Form 990 (ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer)
World Vision Inc. (filed with the US Internal Revenue Service, reproduced by ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer), ProPublica Nonprofit ExplorerView the Source
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