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Global Advance Inc

Global Advance ignites changemakers worldwide to fulfill the Great Commission.

$342k
Granted FY2020
7
Grants FY2020
4
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead

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

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’17
9
’18
5
’19
7
’20
3
’21
3
’22
2
’23
2
’24

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Religion$1.0MPhilanthropy$200kInternational$174kScience & Tech$6k
02FY2020 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 7 grants below total $173,100, the rows itemized in this filing. The $341,592 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $168,492 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 · FY2020

  • Under $10k2 grants · $13k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $60k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
$13,397
Median grant
4
States reached
$8.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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 (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 84% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%CHURCH GROWTH MINISTIRES: $34k → 7%THE SOLUTIONS FOUNDATION: $6k → 9%HEAVEN'S FAMILY: $24k → 11%SURGE MINISTRIES: $8k → 10%UNITE LIFE: $10k → 5%LATIN EQUIP: $14k → 11%MID-CITIES COMMUNITY CHURCH: $20k → 13%EQUIPPERS & PLANTERS INTL: $8k → 8%CHRISTIAN MINITRIES INTERNATIONAL: $6k → 13%NATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION: $100k → 13%LIFEBRIDGE MINISTRIES: $26k → 9%CHURCH GROWTH MINISTIRES: $15k → 7%HEAVEN'S FAMILY: $17k → 11%THE SOLUTIONS FOUNDATION: $35k → 11%RENWELL MINISTIRES: $8k → 13%NATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION: $100k → 13%LIFEBRIDGE MINISTRIES: $23k → 9%CHURCH GROWTH MINISTIRES: $14k → 7%HIS FEET INTERNATIONAL: $12k → 11%THE SOLUTIONS FOUNDATION: $8k → 11%RENWELL MINISTIRES: $6k → 13%LIFEBRIDGE MINISTRIES: $19k → 9%CHURCH GROWTH MINISTIRES: $5k → 7%CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES IN AFRICA: $11k → 11%LIFEBRIDGE MINISTRIES: $13k → 9%CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES IN AFRICA: $6k → 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
MN
MI
IN
PA
CA
CO
AR
GA
TX
FL

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.

South Asia$242k · 43% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: HUMANITARIAN/CHURCH

Sub-Saharan Africa$226k · 40% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: HUMANITARIAN/CHURCH

South America$52k · 9% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: HUMANITARIAN/CHURCH

Europe (including Iceland and Greenland)$18k · 3% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: HUMANITARIAN/CHURCH

East Asia and the Pacific$15k · 3% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: HUMANITARIAN/CHURCH

Middle East and North Africa$9k · 2% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: HUMANITARIAN/CHURC

Central America and the Caribbean$4k · 1% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: HUMANITARIAN/CHURCH

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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.1M · 11 repeat orgs$84k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
7

Total granted

$1.1M
$60k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%
+164%

Still filing today

82%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 43% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
ReligionInternationalOther
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

  • BA
    BLESS ASIA NETWORK
    4× · 2017–2020 · $89k · revenue +309% · 42% of their budget
  • CM
    CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES IN AFRICA
    4× · 2017–2020 · $56k · revenue +36%
  • HF
    HEAVEN'S FAMILY
    2× · 2017–2018 · $41k · revenue +17%

Funded once

  • LE
    LATIN EQUIP INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $14k · revenue +62%
  • HF
    HIS FEET INTERNATIONALgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $12k · revenue +164%
  • AM
    AMAZON MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL
    one grant, 2017 · $9k · revenue +16%
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

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
More International Ministries

To spread the gospel of jesus christ through crusades

Religion
2
Asia Us Impact

Religious

Religion
3
Jesus in Vietnam Ministries
Religion
4
Heart Bridge International

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…

Religion
5
Christian Ministries International
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6
Barnabas Leadership Ministries

Ministry

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7
Kings Commission Ministries

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…

—
8
Dozen Ministries

Religious

Religion
9
Discover Your Mission Inc

Supporing missionaries worldwide

Religion
10
Training Pastors International

Training pastors in third world countries

Religion
11
Equippers Group International

To produce and publish training materials for church leadership and development. To facilitate churches groups and individual participation in world mission.

Religion
12
Spirit Invasion Ministries

Spread the Gospel of Jesus Christ

Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is His Feet International; 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.
04the grantee network

15 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. 15 of the 22 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
11/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GLOBAL ADVANCE FOUNDATION: $624,000 · ReligionGLOBAL ADVANCE FOUNDATIONBLESS ASIA NETWORK: $89,200 · ReligionBLESS ASIA NETWORKHEAVEN'S FAMILY: $41,065 · ReligionRENEWELL MINISTRIES: $33,500 · Religion+5 more: $60,850 · Religion+5 moreLifebridge Ministries Inc: $81,147 · OtherLifebridge Ministries…Church Growth Ministries: $68,700 · OtherChurch Growth Ministr…THE SOLUTIONS FOUNDATION: $42,630 · OtherTHE SOLUTIONS FOUNDAT…CALVARY INTERNATIONAL INC: $20,051 · OtherCALVARY INTERNATIONAL…LATIN EQUIP INC: $13,500 · Other+5 more: $34,000 · Other+5 moreNATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC: $200,000 · PhilanthropyNATL CHRISTIAN C…CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES IN AFRICA: $55,650 · InternationalMorning Star Development: $32,073 · International
Religion$848,615Other$260,028Philanthropy$200,000International$87,723

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGLOBAL ADVANCE FOUNDATION: $624,000 over 7y, 77% of budgetNATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC: $200,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBLESS ASIA NETWORK: $89,200 over 4y, 42% of budgetLifebridge Ministries Inc: $81,147 over 4y, 54% of budgetChurch Growth Ministries: $68,700 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetCHRISTIAN MINISTRIES IN AFRICA: $55,650 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetHEAVEN'S FAMILY: $41,065 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetRENEWELL MINISTRIES: $33,500 over 2y, 56% of budgetMorning Star Development: $32,073 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetRENEWAL MINISTRIES INC: $24,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetHIS FEET INTERNATIONAL: $11,600 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetUnite Life: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAMAZON MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL: $9,250 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetJOSHUA NATIONS INTERNATIONAL: $5,500 over 1y, 0.9% 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.

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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Christian Community F…Natl Christian Charit…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Christian Community Foundation IncCO12× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Global Advance Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Global Advance Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov · 00%5%19%42%75%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, FY20–24
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Global Advance Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Global Advance Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 22 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 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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