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Messenger Ministries Inc

To advance the proclamation of the christian gospel and it's ministry throughout the world with a specific focus on recruiting missionaries, planting gospel centered churches and supporting parachurch ministries.

$18k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
1
Grants FY2024
3
Organizations funded FY2023
100%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$18,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$18,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 3
FY2022 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$134k

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 100% of the organizations Messenger Ministries Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving1$18k100%
FY20233$168k100%
FY20221$50kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2024.

Religion$236k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2022 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Cross Conference$67,5001n/a
Reaching and Teaching International Ministries Incorporated$50,00010%
Radius International$50,00011%
9marks$50,0001n/a
Trinity Cambridge Church$18,0001n/a

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 IncGA9.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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.

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About Messenger Ministries Inc

How much does Messenger Ministries Inc give?
Messenger Ministries Inc reported 1 grants totaling $18,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 3 organizations a year over FY2022 to FY2023.
What does Messenger Ministries Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2022 to FY2024, its largest causes are Religion (100%).
Who are Messenger Ministries Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2022 to FY2024: Cross Conference ($68k), Reaching and Teaching International Ministries Incorporated ($50k), Radius International ($50k).
Does Messenger Ministries Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Messenger Ministries Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
Where is Messenger Ministries Inc based?
Messenger Ministries Inc is based in KY.

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 5 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.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2024, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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