Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
Advancing Christianity Through Service dba ACTS Beyond
Advancing Christianity Through Service dba ACTS Beyond (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $84,808 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($35,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 90% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $130k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $85k
- Net assets
- $31k
What Advancing Christianity Through Service dba ACTS Beyond does
Mission
Theological Education
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
The training and equiping of pastors and leaders to lead, serve, and plant local churches, and become missionaries in the Dominican Republic and Latin America
$75,075 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $75,075.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $89k to $31k (−65%).
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.
100% of Advancing Christianity Through Service dba ACTS Beyond’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $11 → $25k.
4 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 90% 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 Advancing Christianity Through Service dba ACTS Beyond’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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
Advancing Christianity Through Service dba ACTS Beyond leans on a few funders — its largest provides 41% of grant income and the top three 91%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
100% 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 Advancing Christianity Through Service dba ACTS Beyond.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 99% · 2022 99% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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.
Where its funders are
90% of Advancing Christianity Through Service dba ACTS Beyond's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $9k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Pennsylvania, across 1 state.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $76k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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.
Against its field
Advancing Christianity Through Service dba ACTS Beyond has grown faster than three-quarters of the 13,062 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,062 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Advancing Christianity Through Service dba ACTS Beyond
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 Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Advancing Christianity Through Service dba ACTS Beyond: 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 Advancing Christianity Through Service dba ACTS Beyond?
- Advancing Christianity Through Service dba ACTS Beyond (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $84,808 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($35,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 90% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Advancing Christianity Through Service dba ACTS Beyond have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $84,808 in grants to Advancing Christianity Through Service dba ACTS Beyond, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Advancing Christianity Through Service dba ACTS Beyond?
- NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC is the largest funder on record, with $35,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Advancing Christianity Through Service dba ACTS Beyond find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2020–2025), and the filings of 5 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing