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Excel Leadership Network Inc

Our mission is to provide support to church planters and leaders through resources, training, coaching and funding for churches and ministries, to teach and preach the gospel through speaking engagements at religious venues, to produce and distribute christian literature, to offer bible based classes, to provide spiritual counseling, to…

$142k
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$17k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Religion$287kOther$0
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 6 grants below total $51,900, the rows itemized in this filing. The $142,359 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $90,459 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $35k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $17k
$7,500
Median grant
3
States reached
$77k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
KINGDOM BUILDERS MINISTRY$16,900
REVIVE MINISTRIES$8,000
THE ZEAL CITY CHURCH$7,500
BOLD FAITH MINISTRIES$7,500
CULTIVATE CHURCH$6,000
SOCIETY CHURCH$6,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 82% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%THE BRIDGE: $13k → 11%THE BLOCK CHURCH: $10k → 22%KINGDOM BUILDERS MINISTRY: $17k → 10%CENTER CITY CHURCH: $10k → 10%BEYOND BORDERS: $11k → 11%RENOVATE CHURCH: $6k → 11%SOCIETY CHURCH: $6k → 12%PORTRAIT CHURCH: $15k → 14%CITY WALK CHURCH: $10k → 14%THE ARMY OF VICTORY: $8k → 19%NEW STORY CHURCH: $16k → 13%CULTIVATE CHURCH: $6k → 5%BOLD FAITH MINISTRIES: $8k → 10%REVIVE MINISTRIES: $8k → 11%MOSAIC CHURCH: $8k → 19%CRUCIFORM CHURCH INC: $8k → 13%LINCOLN PARK CHURCH: $8k → 16%KINGSHIP CHURCH: $8k → 8%THE ZEAL CITY CHURCH: $8k → 9%TRIBE CHURCH: $7k → 5%ONE COMMUNITYRIVERS CROSSING: $5k → 6%MAKERS CHURCH NORTHWEST: $8k → 9%FIRESIDE CHURCH ARIZONA: $14k → 11%BEYOND BORDERS: $7k → 11%THE REFINERY CHURCH: $8k → 11%THE ARMY OF VICTORY: $8k → 19%CULTIVATE CHURCH: $6k → 5%AUTHENTIC CITY MINISTRIES INC: $10k → 11%ONE COMMUNITYRIVERS CROSSING: $5k → 6%BEYOND BORDERS: $7k → 11%THE REFINERY CHURCH: $8k → 11%AUTHENTIC CITY MINISTRIES INC: $8k → 11%BEYOND BORDERS: $6k → 11%IAM CHURCH: $10k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MI
NY
OR
IN
OH
PA
CA
CO
AZ
TX
FL

Grants abroad, by region: $29k on the FY2025 return

Schedule F, as filed: 4 regions, $18k to organizations and $10k to individuals. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

Central America and the Caribbean$13k · 44% · 2 grants

Stated purpose: FUNDING OF RELIGOUS ACTIVITY.

Religious - Church Support In Nicaragua And Honduras$9k · 33% · 3 people

Stated purpose: CASH

Europe (including Iceland and Greenland)$6k · 20% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: FUNDING OF RELIGOUS ACTIVITY.

Russia and Neighboring States$1k · 3% · 1 person

Stated purpose: CASH

How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

34%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$99k · 6 repeat orgs$193k to everyone else

6 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
15

Total granted

$99k
$147k

Still filing today

0%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 12% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $46k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • BB
    BEYOND BORDERS
    4× · 2020–2023 · $29k
  • AC
    AUTHENTIC CITY MINISTRIES INC
    2× · 2021–2022 · $18k
  • TA
    THE ARMY OF VICTORY
    2× · 2022–2023 · $16k

Funded once

  • NS
    NEW STORY CHURCH INC
    one grant, 2020 · $16k
  • PC
    PORTRAIT CHURCH
    one grant, 2023 · $15k
  • FC
    FIRESIDE CHURCH ARIZONA
    one grant, 2024 · $14k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field
04the grantee network

1 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 1 of the 26 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
1/1
Grantees still filing
0/1
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BEYOND BORDERS: $29,000 · OtherBEYOND BORDERSAUTHENTIC CITY MINISTRIES INC: $17,500 · OtherAUTHENTIC CITY MINISTRIES INCTHE ARMY OF VICTORY: $15,500 · OtherTHE ARMY OF VICTORYNEW STORY CHURCH INC: $15,500 · OtherNEW STORY CHURCH INCPORTRAIT CHURCH: $15,000 · OtherPORTRAIT CHURCHTHE REFINERY CHURCH: $15,000 · OtherTHE REFINERY CHURCHFIRESIDE CHURCH ARIZONA: $13,750 · OtherTHE BRIDGE INC: $12,500 · OtherCULTIVATE CHURCH: $12,000 · OtherHEARTLAND COMMUNITY CHURCH: $10,150 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $10,023 · OtherIAM CHURCH: $10,000 · OtherTHE BLOCK CHURCH: $10,000 · OtherCITYWALK CHURCH: $10,000 · Other+11 more: $79,500 · Other+11 moreKINGDOM BUILDERS MINISTRY: $16,900 · Religion
Other$275,423Religion$16,900

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%grantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetKINGDOM BUILDERS MINISTRY: $16,900 over 1y, 1.6% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds KINGDOM BUILDERS MINISTRY ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Excel Leadership Network Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Excel Leadership Network Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 26 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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