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ActBeyond

ActBeyond (Texas) receives grants from 32 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,061,729 to it, the largest being IFE Foundation ($3,309,935). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2018
$5.6M
Funders on record
32
Grants received
$8.1M
Net assets
$2.0M
19/32 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 25%
01What it does

What ActBeyond does

Mission

We start church planting movements to transform unreached people groups--where obedient disciples make obedient disciples and reproducing churches start reproducing churches--who make Jesus known while transforming lives, relationships and communities.

As stated on its FY2018 Form 990.

Program

Our main efforts are to start movements which transform whole communities. We have over 80 teams which focus in difficult areas of the world to accomplish this mission. At least 34,900 churches were started this last year plus about 6,000 other groups moving toward becoming churches. These results have taken place in many parts of Asia and North Africa and the Middle East. These congregations help feed the poor, help those who are less fortunate and generally work to improve economies, moral life and spiritual life. We estimate that over 500,000 people heard the Gospel through the combined efforts of our people and the people they trained. Possibly over 11,000 people this year made a commitment to serve Jesus Christ and their community.

The first program described on its most recent Form 990, which lists programs largest first by expense.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($4.8M) Expenses 100 ($5.1M) Net assets 100 ($1.8M)2018 Revenue 117 ($5.6M) Expenses 105 ($5.4M) Net assets 110 ($2.0M)
20172018
Revenue (117)Expenses (105)Net assets (110)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $3.1M to $3.3M (+7%).

$3.1M
$3.3M
20172018
Total assetsTotal liabilities

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

2017
2018
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of ActBeyond’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (90% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 2,744 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.

−$381k
’17
$163k
’18
0.6
months of
reserve

Leadership and staff

The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.

20172018
Listed1412
Joined·+2
No longer listed·4
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 11 funders to 14 funders, grant income fell $1.0M → $910k.

16 of 32 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 49% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of ActBeyond’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 32 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How concentrated its funding is

ActBeyond leans on a few funders — its largest provides 41% of grant income and the top three 80%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

94% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund ActBeyond.

41%
largest funder
80%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 71% · 2018 82% · 2019 69% · 2020 57% · 2021 54% · 2022 31% · 2023 55% — diversifying over time.

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How long its funders stay

43% of ActBeyond's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

ActBeyond draws 98% of its grant income from funders outside Texas, across 11 states in all.

MN
IL
MI
CO
MO
KY
DE
AZ
NC
GA
TX

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’17
’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Texas out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.9M arriving through sponsors registered in 13 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

ActBeyond has grown faster than half of the 1,333 religion nonprofits its size.

Operating margin3% · below the median
Months of reserve0.6mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)17% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,333 religion nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2018

Organizations like ActBeyond

Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Texas

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

81% of spending goes to programs.

Program 81%Management 15%Fundraising 4%

Governance

10
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

94%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 11 states

NH
MN
WI
WV
VA
TN
SC
HI
MS
GA
FL

Part of a family of 2 related entities

  • 301 Sherman Street LLC · disregarded
  • International Technical Assistance Group · exempt

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ActBeyond: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.

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Questions and answers

Who funds ActBeyond?
ActBeyond (Texas) receives grants from 32 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,061,729 to it, the largest being IFE Foundation ($3,309,935). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does ActBeyond have?
IRS filings report 32 organizations giving $8,061,729 in grants to ActBeyond, 19 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of ActBeyond?
IFE Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $3,309,935 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like ActBeyond find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2018 (financials across 2017–2018), and the filings of 32 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing