Tennessee · Nonprofit
Amazima Ministries International Education and Empowerment for East
Amazima Ministries International Education and Empowerment for East (Tennessee) receives grants from 51 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,355,155 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($4,204,671). 25 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 95% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $7.2M
- Funders on record
- 51
- Grants received
- $11M
- Net assets
- $4.0M
What Amazima Ministries International Education and Empowerment for East does
Mission
To make disciples of Jesus through authentic relationships, excellent education, and strengthened communities.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Amazima Ministries International, Education and Empowerment for East Africa ("the Ministry"), is a not-for-profit Tennessee corporation whose purpose is to educate and empower the people of East Africa by providing education, health care, food, and family support, as well as spiritual, physical, and emotional encouragement.The Ministry's mission is to make disciples of Jesus through authentic relationships, excellent education, and strengthened communities. Its vision is that every person served would know Christ and make Him knownresulting in transformed lives, restored relationships, and changed communities. The Ministry is primarily funded through contributions from individuals and businesses.The Ministry's key initiatives include:Educational Activities - The Ministry directly supports The Amazima School, a Christ-centered primary and secondary school that equips Ugandan students with the tools of learning and creative thinking to live fully for the glory of God. Through educational scholarships, students receive a Christ-centered education, meals, school supplies, medical care, and spiritual discipleship. Primary school students (P1P7) attend as day students, while secondary…
$6,399,601 spentof which $4,700,996 as grants$300 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $6,399,601.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $24M to $4.3M (−82%).
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: 2020 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of Amazima Ministries International Education and Empowerment for East’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (97% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 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.
Board chair
Don Shepherd
Board Chair/Treasurer (end 4/24)
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 11 funders to 23 funders, grant income rose $481k → $2.8M.
21 of 51 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 95% 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 Amazima Ministries International Education and Empowerment for East’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 51 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
Amazima Ministries International Education and Empowerment for East leans on a few funders — its largest provides 37% of grant income and the top three 73%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
95% 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 Amazima Ministries International Education and Empowerment for East.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 35% · 2018 56% · 2019 55% · 2020 36% · 2021 51% · 2022 36% · 2023 61% — growing more concentrated.
“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
48% of Amazima Ministries International Education and Empowerment for East's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 49% 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
95% of Amazima Ministries International Education and Empowerment for East'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 $602k that is directly attributable, 79% of it comes from funders outside Tennessee, across 17 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $11M arriving through sponsors registered in 17 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
Amazima Ministries International Education and Empowerment for East is better cushioned than half of the 1,607 international nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,607 international nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like Amazima Ministries International Education and Empowerment for East
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 Tennessee
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 4 states
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Amazima Asset Trust · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Amazima Ministries International Education and Empowerment for East: 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 Amazima Ministries International Education and Empowerment for East?
- Amazima Ministries International Education and Empowerment for East (Tennessee) receives grants from 51 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,355,155 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($4,204,671). 25 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 95% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Amazima Ministries International Education and Empowerment for East have?
- IRS filings report 51 organizations giving $11,355,155 in grants to Amazima Ministries International Education and Empowerment for East, 25 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Amazima Ministries International Education and Empowerment for East?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $4,204,671 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Amazima Ministries International Education and Empowerment for East find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Tennessee. 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 51 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