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MIO Frontiers

Church planting among the least evangelized peoples of the world through recruiting, training, sending, and serving field workers.

$1.6M
Granted FY2020
5
Grants FY2020
4
States reached
$72k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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 2020.

International$835kReligion$110k
02FY2020 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 5 grants below total $144,497, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,596,318 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $1,451,821 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 · $18k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $55k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $72k
$15,551
Median grant
4
States reached
$21M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Millennium Relief & Development Services$72,240
Mission to the World$39,000
Launch Global$15,551
Fellowship of Church Planters Inc$9,343
Allegro Organizational Solutions Inc$8,363
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 (FY17–20) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 72% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%New Promise Christian Fellowship: $8k → 11%New Generations: $14k → 8%Millennium Relief & Development Services: $151k → 16%Pioneers: $30k → 13%Fellowship of Church Planters Inc: $12k → 7%Mission to the World: $39k → 9%Millennium Relief & Development Services: $137k → 16%Fellowship of Church Planters Inc: $11k → 7%Mission to the World: $39k → 9%Millennium Relief & Development Services: $85k → 16%Fellowship of Church Planters Inc: $10k → 7%Mission to the World: $32k → 9%Millennium Relief & Development Services: $72k → 16%Fellowship of Church Planters Inc: $9k → 7%Mission to the World: $25k → 9%Allegro Organizational Solutions Inc: $14k → 16%Gatekeepers International Inc: $18k → 9%Allegro Organizational Solutions Inc: $14k → 16%Allegro Organizational Solutions Inc: $9k → 16%Allegro Organizational Solutions Inc: $8k → 16%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.

Grants abroad, by region: $1.4M on the FY2020 return

Schedule F, as filed: 8 regions. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

Europe (including Iceland and Greenland)$560k · 40% · 12 grants

Stated purpose: Field oversight and develop training for fieldworkers, Fieldworker Support · Fieldworker Support · Church-planting

Middle East and North Africa$411k · 30% · 12 grants

Stated purpose: Fieldworker Support · Economic develoopment

Sub-Saharan Africa$244k · 18% · 4 grants

Stated purpose: Fieldworker Support · Economic develoopment

East Asia and the Pacific$95k · 7% · 4 grants

Stated purpose: Field oversight and develop training for fieldworkers, Fieldworker Support · Fieldworker Support, Economic Development.

North America (Canada and Mexico)$35k · 3% · 2 grants

Stated purpose: Fieldworker Support

South Asia$25k · 2% · 2 grants

Stated purpose: Fieldworker Support

South America$9k · 1% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: Field oversight and develop training for fieldworkers, Fieldworker Support

Russia and Neighboring States$7k · 0% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: Fieldworker Support

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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$859k · 5 repeat orgs$86k to everyone else

5 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2020, 1 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
4

Total granted

$859k
$70k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%
+32%

Still filing today

40%
25%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2020, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20
InternationalReligionOther
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

  • MR
    MILLENNIUM RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT SERVICES INC
    4× · 2017–2020 · $445k · revenue +17%
  • CE
    CORNERSTONE ENTERPRISES
    3× · 2017–2019 · $191k · revenue -51% · 35% of their budget
  • MT
    Mission to the World
    4× · 2017–2020 · $135k

Funded once

  • P
    PIONEERS
    one grant, 2019 · $30k
  • GI
    GATEKEEPERS INTERNATIONAL INC
    one grant, 2018 · $18k
  • NG
    NEW GENERATIONSgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $14k · revenue +32%
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

5 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2024.

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 2024, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 5 of the 10 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
3/5
Grantees still filing
3/5
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MILLENNIUM RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT SERVICES INC: $445,305 · InternationalMILLENNIUM RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT SERVICES INCALLEGRO ORGANIZATIONAL SOLUTIONS INC: $46,093 · InternationalALLEGRO ORGANIZATIONAL SOLUTIONS INCCORNERSTONE ENTERPRISES: $190,611 · OtherCORNERSTONE ENTERPRISESMission to the World: $135,199 · OtherMission to the WorldFELLOWSHIP OF CHURCH PLANTERS: $42,115 · OtherFELLOWSHIP OF CHURCH PLANTERSPIONEERS: $30,000 · OtherPIONEERSGATEKEEPERS INTERNATIONAL INC: $18,190 · Other+1 more: $7,727 · OtherLAUNCH GLOBAL: $15,551 · ReligionNEW GENERATIONS: $14,471 · Religion
International$491,398Other$423,842Religion$30,022

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMILLENNIUM RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT SERVICES INC: $445,305 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetCORNERSTONE ENTERPRISES: $190,611 over 3y, 35% of budgetALLEGRO ORGANIZATIONAL SOLUTIONS INC: $46,093 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLAUNCH GLOBAL: $15,551 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEW GENERATIONS: $14,471 over 1y, 0.2% 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 MILLENNIUM RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds CORNERSTONE ENTERPRISES ↗
  • Who funds ALLEGRO ORGANIZATIONAL SOLUTIONS INC ↗
  • Who funds LAUNCH GLOBAL ↗
  • Who funds NEW GENERATIONS ↗

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.

National Philanthropi…Natl Christian Charit…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
National Philanthropic TrustPA8.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn 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 MIO Frontiers funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from MIO Frontiers. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24
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, FY20–24
    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.
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    How do I get to MIO Frontiers?

    Find your warmest path to MIO Frontiers 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 10 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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