Virginia · Nonprofit
ADVANCING NATIVE MISSIONS
ADVANCING NATIVE MISSIONS (Virginia) receives grants from 54 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,161,729 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($3,019,014). 38 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 63% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $8.1M
- Funders on record
- 54
- Grants received
- $11M
- Net assets
- $2.1M
What Advancing Native Missions does
Mission
To seek out, evaluate and support native missions groups who have a clear and defined evangelical statement of faith, who are open and transparent in their finances, and who are working among unreached people groups.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The organization encourges, equips and advocates for native missionaries around the world, for strategic and fruitful ministry, to introduce the gospel of jesus to unevangelized and unreached people where they live. We seek out, evaluate, and support native missions ministries with a clear and defined evangelical statement of faith who are working among unreached people groups. We share this information with churches and individuals in north america and other regions who are willing to pray for and financially support these ministries. We bring church mission teams to serve our mission partners overseas, and we also provide conferences for native church leaders in their own regions, for encouragement and training. We also visit our mission partners overseas for accountability and greater impact in their regions. During 2025, our ministry partners worked in over 100 countries, including countries where followers of jesus experience the most severe persecution, and engaged with over 1,100 unreached people groups, by sharing the gospel and delivering practical help in jesus' name. We provide consistent and sustained prayer coverage for our mission partners, donors, staff and…
$5,946,674 spentof which $4,279,951 as grants$52,612 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $5,946,674.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $4.3M to $2.9M (−33%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 3% · 2022 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
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.
Chief executive
Dale Nimmo
CEO
Board chair
Susan Brandt
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 14 funders to 25 funders, grant income rose $564k → $1.5M.
15 of 54 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 63% 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 NATIVE MISSIONS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 54 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
ADVANCING NATIVE MISSIONS has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 27% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
65% 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 NATIVE MISSIONS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 41% · 2018 41% · 2019 36% · 2020 32% · 2021 33% · 2022 41% · 2023 22% — 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
50% of ADVANCING NATIVE MISSIONS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 70% give in more than one year at all.
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
63% of ADVANCING NATIVE MISSIONS'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 $4.1M that is directly attributable, 60% of it comes from Virginia funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $7.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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.
Organizations like ADVANCING NATIVE MISSIONS
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 Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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 27 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ADVANCING NATIVE MISSIONS: 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 NATIVE MISSIONS?
- ADVANCING NATIVE MISSIONS (Virginia) receives grants from 54 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,161,729 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($3,019,014). 38 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 63% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does ADVANCING NATIVE MISSIONS have?
- IRS filings report 54 organizations giving $11,161,729 in grants to ADVANCING NATIVE MISSIONS, 38 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ADVANCING NATIVE MISSIONS?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $3,019,014 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ADVANCING NATIVE MISSIONS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2018–2024), and the filings of 54 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