California · Nonprofit
AMAZING GRACE MARITIME MISSIONS
AMAZING GRACE MARITIME MISSIONS (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $108,266 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ($108,200). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $127k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $108k
- Net assets
- $-41056
What Amazing Grace Maritime Missions does
Mission
Our mission is to share the love of Jesus Christ in all spheres of life, and provide mercy ministries to isolated and disadvantaged people who have little or no access to clean water, basic medical care and education. 1 in 2 people in Mexico suffer from a lack of medical resources. Providing basic healthcare to remote coastal villages of the Sea of Cortez, Mexico is a challenge. They have limited or no road access. The nearest hospital or dental clinics are over several hours away. For medical professionals to serve these isolated communities, they would need a place to stay and eat; no hotels and restaurants available at these locations. With ships, we can deliver basic healthcare to these communities and provide housing and meals for the volunteer medical professionals and crew. Amazing Grace Maritime Missions builds relationships uniting churches in the USA with churches in Mexico to serve communities with health and biblically based education by land and by sea.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
DISEASE PREVENTION PROGRAMS: Amazing Grace Maritime Missions (AGMM) partners with Youth with a Missions Mazatlán USA (YWAM) to provide basic medical treatments with skilled medical volunteers in small coastal villages around the Sea of Cortez. While YWAM operates the Amazing Grace medical ship, Zeus and Charlotte expands into mobilizing AGMM's health programs by land and by sea with their other vessels. AGMM provides disease prevention outreaches, medical supplies to small rural hospitals, and sponsors dental services for at-risk youth in Mexico. We have conducted several disease prevention programs and found that most of the children have never received dental care. Their culture does not yet value preventative dental care or proper dental hygiene. Did you know that 80% of Premature Heart disease, Stroke, and Diabetes and 40% of Cancer can be prevented by doing just 3 things? Rural communities in Mexico have little access to healthcare. Our community health programs teach people ways to prevent disease and help develop healthy communities. During our Disease Prevention health fair, our volunteer medical professionals provide health screenings such as testing glucose A1c levels…
$15,246 spentof which $10,000 as grants9% of program spendingCHRISTIAN EDUCATION PROGRAMS: The rural communities in Mexico have little access to Christian health education. Our Health Education programs consist of the Armor of God curriculum. The Armor of God curriculum explains that God gave us a physical and spiritual armor. It covers three health concepts where the children rotate through different stations focusing on proper handwashing, dental hygiene, and basic wound care as well the spiritual armor of God presented in Ephesians 6:10-17. SAILING EDUCATION PROGRAM: "The wind is like the Holy Spirit," begins Zeus Ebio, as he teaches youth sailing, "the tiller is how you choose to direct the sailboat to harness the wind in your sail. In your life, you can choose to live with the power of God's Spirit or on your own power." Aboard our sailboats we give children sailing experiences teaching biblically based life skills. Training students to build character and responsibility through learning how to sail.
$75,133 spentof which $50,000 as grants45% of program spendingPROGRAM DEVELOPMENT with strategic partnerships: AGMM programs touch thousands of lives yearly with just a staff of two. You might ask how can that be? The answer is strategic partnerships. Diligently we meet with individuals as well as churches and other nonprofits to pool our resources together to effectively provide services to those in need. Developing relationships with various churches in the US and in Mexico, we bridge the gap of providing outreach opportunities between the US church's need to share the gospel with the Mexican churches who needs resources to expand their reach in their small fishing village communities.
$4,281 spentof which $5,000 as grants3% of program spendingREDEMPTION PROGRAM means ministry sustainability Amazing Grace Maritime Missions provides healthcare and education programs to underserved coastal communities in the Sea of Cortez. Working with people from the US to provide Home Health Kits, Health Education, Spiritual education, and Disease prevention. Volunteers come for five days partnering in ministry and experience what God is doing through our Outreach programs in the sea of Cortez Mexico helping the underserved communities effecting change while enjoying the beauty of small coastal villages in Mexico. Teams leave refreshed and inspired having the satisfaction of knowing their trip provides healthcare and education opportunities in Mexico while living aboard Redemption, our 43-foot catamaran. In the first two days of their outreach, they participate in our health education programs and provide Home Health Kits. Teaching local youth, proper handwashing, good dental hygiene, and basic wound care. Followed by three days of sailing and anchoring at neighboring islands to reflect in God's word and debrief aboard s/v Redemption.
$74,048 spentof which $45,000 as grants44% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $168,708.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 $224k to $445k (+99%).
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.
90% of AMAZING GRACE MARITIME MISSIONS’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $0 → $20.
2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 AMAZING GRACE MARITIME MISSIONS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 2 of 3 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
AMAZING GRACE MARITIME MISSIONS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 100% 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
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 AMAZING GRACE MARITIME MISSIONS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 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
100% of AMAZING GRACE MARITIME 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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $108k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
AMAZING GRACE MARITIME MISSIONS has grown faster than half of the 7,334 religion nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,334 religion nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like AMAZING GRACE MARITIME MISSIONS
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In California
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
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Questions and answers
- Who funds AMAZING GRACE MARITIME MISSIONS?
- AMAZING GRACE MARITIME MISSIONS (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $108,266 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ($108,200). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does AMAZING GRACE MARITIME MISSIONS have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $108,266 in grants to AMAZING GRACE MARITIME MISSIONS, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AMAZING GRACE MARITIME MISSIONS?
- AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $108,200 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AMAZING GRACE MARITIME MISSIONS 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 FY2025 (financials across 2019–2025), and the filings of 3 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