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Gospel Volunteers Inc

Promoting the christian faith.

$247k
Granted FY2024still arriving
6
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$92k
Largest
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$1.3MInternational$11k
02FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 6 grants below total $164,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $246,663 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $82,663 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 · FY2024

  • $10k–50k5 grants · $72k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $92k
$15,750
Median grant
6
States reached
$21M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PIONEERS - USA$92,000
THE TIMOTHY INITIATIVE$25,000
AFRICA INLAND MISSION$15,750
STUDENTS INTERNATIONAL$11,250
GLOBAL FAITH NETWORK$10,000
UNLIMITED POTENTIAL MISSIONS$10,000
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:

Its human-services grants (FY24–24, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%GLOBAL FAITH NETWORK: $10k → 8%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

MI
NY
IN
CA
CO
MO
AZ
NC
FL

Grants abroad, by region: $38k on the FY2024 return

Schedule F, as filed: 2 regions. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

East Asia and the Pacific$30k · 79% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: ENGLISH TEACHING

Sub-Saharan Africa$8k · 21% · 1 grant
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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 6% of Gospel Volunteers Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Gospel Volunteers Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.2M · 5 repeat orgs$135k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +23% since the first grant, against -9% for those funded once.

5 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
5

Total granted

$1.2M
$103k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
-9%

Still filing today

40%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $31k 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
ReligionInternationalHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • BP
    Barnabas & Partners
    6× · 2017–2023 · $549k · revenue -88% · 39% of their budget
  • P
    PIONEERS
    7× · 2018–2024 · $392k
  • AI
    AFRICA INLAND MISSION INTERNATIONAL INCORPORATED
    8× · 2017–2024 · $135k

Funded once

  • MF
    MIO Frontiers
    one grant, 2023 · $40k · revenue +11%
  • WO
    WORD OF LIFE FELLOWSHIP INC
    one grant, 2022 · $40k · revenue -11%
  • DT
    DISCIPLING THE NATIONS
    one grant, 2022 · $9k · revenue -9%
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
Training Pastors International

Training pastors in third world countries

Religion
2
Global City Missions Initiative Incorporated

Global City Mission Initiative is dedicated to cross-cultural evanglism, disciplemaking, church planting among diverse diaspora populations in strategic cities reaching out evangelistically to start multiply churches, training believers to…

Religion
3
Evangelism Partners International
Religion
4
Timothy Two Project International

Reaching and teaching pastors in the majority world.

Religion
5
Verticle Living Ministries

To equip disciples of Jesus Christ to balance and live their lives to glorify God in every area of life; spirituall, personally, communally and physically by

Religion
6
International Impact Ministries in
Religion
7
China Training Network

To Train Christian Leaders and Plant Churches in China

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8
More International Ministries

To spread the gospel of jesus christ through crusades

Religion
9
Faith Speaks World Outreach

World outreach

Religion
10
Alongside Education Ministries Inc

Pastor training

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11
Daniel Project

Promote the expansion of the Gospel by providing stipends for expenses for cross-cultural church planters

Religion
12
Raise Up Global Ministries

Raise Up Global Ministries is committed to educating Christian leaders in communities around the world. The three programs of Raise Up equip the global church by 1 Developing biblically based interactive materials and 2 Training…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Word of Life Fellowship Inc; the most unlike its peers is Global Faith Network. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

8 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. 8 of the 13 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/8
Grantees still filing
2/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Barnabas & Partners: $549,206 · ReligionBarnabas & PartnersTHE TIMOTHY INITIATIVE INC: $88,720 · ReligionTHE TIMOTHY INITIATIVE INCMIO Frontiers: $40,000 · ReligionMIO FrontiersWORD OF LIFE FELLOWSHIP INC: $40,000 · ReligionWORD OF LIFE FELLOWSHIP INC+1 more: $8,700 · ReligionPIONEERS: $391,962 · OtherPIONEERSAFRICA INLAND MISSION INTERNATIONAL INCORPORATED: $134,630 · OtherAFRICA INLAND MISSION INTERNATIONAL INCORPORATEDMESA GLOBAL: $19,200 · Other+2 more: $14,600 · OtherSTUDENTS INTERNATIONAL: $11,250 · InternationalGLOBAL FAITH NETWORK: $10,000 · Human ServicesUNLIMITED POTENTIAL INC: $10,000 · Recreation & Sports
Religion$726,626Other$560,392International$11,250Human Services$10,000Recreation & Sports$10,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBarnabas & Partners: $549,206 over 6y, 39% of budgetTHE TIMOTHY INITIATIVE INC: $88,720 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetWORD OF LIFE FELLOWSHIP INC: $40,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSTUDENTS INTERNATIONAL: $11,250 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGLOBAL FAITH NETWORK: $10,000 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetUNLIMITED POTENTIAL INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetDISCIPLING THE NATIONS: $8,700 over 1y, 12% 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 Barnabas & Partners ↗
  • Who funds THE TIMOTHY INITIATIVE INC ↗
  • Who funds MIO Frontiers ↗
  • Who funds WORD OF LIFE FELLOWSHIP INC ↗
  • Who funds STUDENTS INTERNATIONAL ↗
  • Who funds GLOBAL FAITH NETWORK ↗
  • Who funds UNLIMITED POTENTIAL INC ↗
  • Who funds DISCIPLING THE NATIONS ↗

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.

Natl Christian Charitable Fdn IncGA10.6× affinity6 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 Gospel Volunteers Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Gospel Volunteers Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2023
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%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
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    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.

    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 13 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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