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Small World Connections Ministry

Provide support and teams to serve Christian missionaries around the world. Encouraging and equipping individuals to serve mission partners. Teaching and coaching churches and other Christian organizations to serve in missions.

$40k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
2
Itemized grants FY2025
3
Organizations funded FY2024
67%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Itemized, FY2025
$37k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025
$26,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$26,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 3
FY2022 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$81k

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 67% of the organizations Small World Connections Ministry funded were first-time grantees, receiving 60% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving2$37k100%
FY20243$29k67%
FY20221$7kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.

Religion$29kEducation$26kHuman Services$12kInternational$7k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2022 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Living Hope for Children$18,30021%
Grace Without Borders Nfp$10,200116%
Crosswalk Fellowship$7,0001n/a

Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($37k), not named here.

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Find your warmest path to Small World Connections Ministry 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.

About Small World Connections Ministry

How much does Small World Connections Ministry give?
Small World Connections Ministry reported 2 itemized grants totaling $37,430, out of $40,000 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 3 organizations a year over FY2022 to FY2024.
What does Small World Connections Ministry fund?
By grant dollars over FY2022 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (39%), Education (36%), Human Services (16%).
Who are Small World Connections Ministry's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2022 to FY2025: Living Hope for Children ($18k), Grace Without Borders Nfp ($10k), Crosswalk Fellowship ($7k).
Does Small World Connections Ministry fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 67% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Where is Small World Connections Ministry based?
Small World Connections Ministry is based in IL.

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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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