California · Nonprofit
AID TO SPECIAL SAINTS IN STRATEGIC TIMES
AID TO SPECIAL SAINTS IN STRATEGIC TIMES (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,099 to it, the largest being GIGGLE FOUNDATION INC ($3,250). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2017
- $76k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $5k
- Net assets
- $3k
What Aid to Special Saints in Strategic Times does
Mission
The organization coordinates humanitarian projects to help christians living under difficult curcumstances. The organization hosts a weekly radio show promoting the gospel in foreign countries and provides a news service for the church.
As stated on its FY2017 Form 990-EZ.
Program
The ministry operates the assist news service (ans), which provides news to some 2,000 media outlets around the world. Our website carries news and also details of various assist programs and projects. "front page radio" is a weekly 28-minute show sponsored by ans and hosted by rev. Dan wooding. Rev. Wooding also hosts "inside hollywood with dan wooding," a weekly television program that aired on two tv cahnnels about christians working in hollywood. Our ministry also provides support to christians living in difficult circumstances around the world.
The first program described on its most recent Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2018: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $2k → $3k.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 36% 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 AID TO SPECIAL SAINTS IN STRATEGIC TIMES’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
AID TO SPECIAL SAINTS IN STRATEGIC TIMES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 64% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
36% 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 AID TO SPECIAL SAINTS IN STRATEGIC TIMES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 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
100% of AID TO SPECIAL SAINTS IN STRATEGIC TIMES's grant income comes from California funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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 AID TO SPECIAL SAINTS IN STRATEGIC TIMES
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
85%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds AID TO SPECIAL SAINTS IN STRATEGIC TIMES?
- AID TO SPECIAL SAINTS IN STRATEGIC TIMES (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,099 to it, the largest being GIGGLE FOUNDATION INC ($3,250). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does AID TO SPECIAL SAINTS IN STRATEGIC TIMES have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $5,099 in grants to AID TO SPECIAL SAINTS IN STRATEGIC TIMES.
- Who is the largest funder of AID TO SPECIAL SAINTS IN STRATEGIC TIMES?
- GIGGLE FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $3,250 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AID TO SPECIAL SAINTS IN STRATEGIC TIMES find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 FY2017 (financials across 2017–2017), and the filings of 2 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