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Global Volunteers

EIN 36-3352680International Minnesota Small

Historical collection: May 2019 · Rating details mostly from 2017. Source & context

The mission

What this organization describes

Partners in development

Founded in 1984, Global Volunteers strives to wage peace throughout the world by helping to establish mutual understanding between people of diverse cultures. Global Volunteers is a NGO (non-governmental organization) in special consultative status with the United Nations. Global Volunteers builds bridges of understanding between people of diverse cultures by involving them in one-on-one service projects. The function of servant-learner volunteers is to serve local people by sharing their talents with them. Projects include tutoring children, teaching conversational English or business skills, renovating and painting community buildings, assisting in health care or with natural resource projects, and nurturing at-risk kids.

Mission and tagline reproduced from the source record.

Historical scorecard

Three perspectives. One record.

86.30Overall score
out of 100

80.63Financial score
out of 100

100.00Accountability & transparency
out of 100

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Financial context

Revenue, expenses, and composition

Total revenue · USD$2,817,610

Total expenses · USD$2,689,455

Program expenses

$2,307,552.39 recorded amount

85.8%

Fundraising expenses

$164,056.76 recorded amount

6.1%

Administrative expenses

$215,156.40 recorded amount

8.0%

Fundraising efficiency: $0.06 spent per $1 raised in donations, as defined in the source.

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Historical leadership record

The leadership information supplied

Recorded leader: Burnham Philbrook
Recorded compensation: $110,000.00
Recorded compensation percentage: 4.09%

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Inspect all 23 original source fields

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All 23 original fields for Global Volunteers
Source field	Original source value
`ascore` Accountability & transparency score	100.0
`category` Category	International
`description` Mission & description	Founded in 1984, Global Volunteers strives to wage peace throughout the world by helping to establish mutual understanding between people of diverse cultures. Global Volunteers is a NGO (non-governmental organization) in special consultative status with the United Nations. Global Volunteers builds bridges of understanding between people of diverse cultures by involving them in one-on-one service projects. The function of servant-learner volunteers is to serve local people by sharing their talents with them. Projects include tutoring children, teaching conversational English or business skills, renovating and painting community buildings, assisting in health care or with natural resource projects, and nurturing at-risk kids.
`ein` EIN	36-3352680
`tot_exp` Total expenses	2689455.0
`admin_exp_p` Administrative expense fraction	0.08
`fund_eff` Fundraising efficiency ($ per $1 raised)	0.06
`fund_exp_p` Fundraising expense fraction	0.061
`program_exp_p` Program expense fraction	0.858
`fscore` Financial score	80.63
`leader` Recorded leader	Burnham Philbrook
`leader_comp` Recorded leader compensation	110000.0
`leader_comp_p` Recorded leader compensation fraction	0.0409
`motto` Tagline	Partners in development
`name` Charity name	Global Volunteers
`tot_rev` Total revenue	2817610.0
`score` Overall score	86.3
`state` State code	MN
`subcategory` Subcategory	Development and Relief Services
`size` Source size label	small
`program_exp` Program expenses	2307552.39
`fund_exp` Fundraising expenses	164056.755
`admin_exp` Administrative expenses	215156.4

Identity & classification

At a glance

EIN: 36-3352680
Source category: International
Source subcategory: Development and Relief Services
Recorded location: Minnesota (MN)
Expense-based size: Small
Under $3.5M in total expenses · source label: small

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Source: Charity Navigator Scores Expenses Dataset, version 1, attributed to katyjqian on Kaggle. Collection: May 2019; rating details mostly from 2017. Read attribution, scope, and reuse notes.