Iowa · Nonprofit
BLESSMAN INTERNATIONAL INC
BLESSMAN INTERNATIONAL INC (Iowa) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,001,212 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($281,318). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 66% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.8M
- Funders on record
- 22
- Grants received
- $1.0M
- Net assets
- $2.5M
What Blessman International Inc does
Mission
Blessman international, inc. Exists to help meet the physical, educational, emotional, and spiritual needs of the people of south africa, with special attention to children, by providing nutritional support, housing, skills training, pastoral training, and basic necessities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Blessman international executes its mission by raising funds and making regular contributions to blessman international, south africa (blessman sa), a south african not-for-profit organization. Funding from blessman in 2025 provided for the construction of 23 new toilet units at rural schools and child development centers. The sports complex continued to provide a gospel-centered atmosphere of friendly sports competition in soccer and netball. Blessman distributed 3,284 reusable hygiene kits to girls, 726 pairs of shoes, and 604 pairs of eyeglasses to south african children. The celebrate recovery program continues to grow, and we currently have 250+ young adults attending weekly meetings to combat addictions, mental health, hurts, and hangups. We continue to drill wells to supply needed drinking water and have drilled an additional 30 wells in 2025. These wells include water meters to record the amount of water supplied. We continue the child sponsorship program (one child at a time) where sponsors from the us can sponsor a child for $44/month or $528/year to provide food, education assistance, and spiritual formation. Currently, 87 children are sponsored. We anticipate growth in…
$2,059,411 spentof which $1,754,223 as grants$213,654 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,059,411.
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 2020 to 2021, from $694k to $1.7M (+147%).
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 BLESSMAN INTERNATIONAL INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (51% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $77k → $206k.
9 of 22 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 66% 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 BLESSMAN INTERNATIONAL INC’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
BLESSMAN INTERNATIONAL INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 28% 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
66% 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 BLESSMAN INTERNATIONAL INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 46% · 2018 69% · 2019 45% · 2020 45% · 2021 35% · 2022 36% · 2023 34% — 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
75% of BLESSMAN INTERNATIONAL INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 73% 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
66% of BLESSMAN INTERNATIONAL INC'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 $339k that is directly attributable, 95% of it comes from Iowa funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $662k arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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
BLESSMAN INTERNATIONAL INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 4,665 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,665 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like BLESSMAN INTERNATIONAL INC
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 Iowa
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
75%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BLESSMAN INTERNATIONAL INC?
- BLESSMAN INTERNATIONAL INC (Iowa) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,001,212 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($281,318). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 66% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does BLESSMAN INTERNATIONAL INC have?
- IRS filings report 22 organizations giving $1,001,212 in grants to BLESSMAN INTERNATIONAL INC, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BLESSMAN INTERNATIONAL INC?
- NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC is the largest funder on record, with $281,318 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BLESSMAN INTERNATIONAL INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Iowa. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 22 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