· Public charity
Global Advance Inc
Global Advance ignites changemakers worldwide to fulfill the Great Commission.
Read this first · the figures below need context
88% of Global Advance Inc’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 2 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2020, the last year Global Advance Inc named its own grantees at scale: 7 organizations, $173k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 7 grants below total $173,100 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $341,592 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $168,492 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2020
- Under $10k2 grants · $13k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $60k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GLOBAL ADVANCE FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| MORNING STAR DEVELOPMENT | $22,303 |
| BLESS ASIA NETWORK | $14,000 |
| LIFEBRIDGE MINISTRIES | $13,397 |
| CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES IN AFRICA | $10,500 |
| THE SOLUTIONS FOUNDATION | $7,500 |
| CHURCH GROWTH MINISTIRES | $5,400 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 84% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
Grants abroad, by region — $565k on the FY2024 return
Schedule F, as filed: 7 regions. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.
Stated purpose: HUMANITARIAN/CHURCH
Stated purpose: HUMANITARIAN/CHURCH
Stated purpose: HUMANITARIAN/CHURCH
Stated purpose: HUMANITARIAN/CHURCH
Stated purpose: HUMANITARIAN/CHURCH
Stated purpose: HUMANITARIAN/CHURC
Stated purpose: HUMANITARIAN/CHURCH
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your 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.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
11 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2020, 4 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call). Read against FY2020, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 43% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- BABLESS ASIA NETWORK4× · 2017–2020 · $89k · revenue +309% · 42% of their budget
- HFHEAVEN'S FAMILY2× · 2017–2018 · $41k · revenue +17%
- RMRENEWELL MINISTRIES2× · 2017–2018 · $34k · revenue +95% · 56% of their budget
Funded once
- LELATIN EQUIP INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $14k · revenue +62%
- HFHIS FEET INTERNATIONALgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $12k · revenue +164%
- AMAMAZON MINISTRIES INTERNATIONALone grant, 2017 · $9k · revenue +16%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To spread the gospel of jesus christ through crusades
Religious
Ministry
Heart Bridge International exists to equip and empower Christians around the world to fulfill the Great Commission. The organization provides free ministry training, discipleship resources, and practical coaching to under-resourced…
Training pastors in third world countries
Our mission is to carry out the commands of our Lord Jesus Christ to take the Good News of the gospel to the whole world teaching people to obey everything He commanded. We work among mostly low-literacy populations so we do this by…
Supporing missionaries worldwide
Provide oversight spititual support, evangelize the word help the poor and needy including aid in the translation of the nible
Religious
To produce and publish training materials for church leadership and development. To facilitate churches groups and individual participation in world mission.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is His Feet International and the most unlike its peers is Morning Star Development. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 15 of the 22 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds GLOBAL ADVANCE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ↗
- Who funds BLESS ASIA NETWORK ↗
- Who funds Lifebridge Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds Church Growth Ministries ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES IN AFRICA ↗
- Who funds HEAVEN'S FAMILY ↗
- Who funds RENEWELL MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds Morning Star Development ↗
- Who funds RENEWAL MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds LATIN EQUIP INC ↗
- Who funds HIS FEET INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds Unite Life ↗
- Who funds AMAZON MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds JOSHUA NATIONS INTERNATIONAL ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Christian Community Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Global Advance Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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