North Carolina · Nonprofit
Church Planting Network Inc
Church Planting Network Inc (North Carolina) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $275,932 to it, the largest being Buford Foundation ($185,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.8M
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $276k
- Net assets
- $3.5M
What Church Planting Network Inc does
Mission
To educate Christian Churches and church multiplication organizations on the best practices and trends in church multiplication, as well as stimulate interest in church multiplication.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Conferences: Church Planting Network, Inc., d/b/a Exponential coordinates church multiplication conferences. The annual (global) conference is the primary way that Exponential educates Christian Churches, Networks and Denominations on best practices and trends in church multiplication. The 2025 global conference included more than 200 national church planting leaders/speakers and was attended by more than 5,000 church planting leaders from all over the world. Sponsorship and registration revenue covers the majority of the cost of presenting the conference including facility rental, speaker fees, marketing, and time and travel devoted to planning.In addition to our annual conference, Exponential hosted two national conferences in the central and west regions of the country. An additional 1,500 people attended those conferences. The national conferences allow for those that cannot travel to Orlando, FL, for our Global conference to also be equipped in best practices for church multiplication.
$775,098 spent$1,635,764 earned by the program25% of program spendingLearning Communities: Church Planting Network d/b/a Exponential coordinates gatherings of pastors, network leaders and emerging leaders from all over the country in order to conduct training on best practices and trends in church multiplication and church leadership. These gatherings are done three times a year in different cities around the country. The learning communities are in line with Exponential's mission to accelerate the multiplication of healthy faith communities.
$160,925 spent$371,000 earned by the program5% of program spendingResources: Church Planting Network d/b/a Exponential distributes resources for church multiplication leaders. That includes digital webinars, ebooks, print books, resource kits, courses, digital access passes of our conferences, and more on church multiplication and church leadership. We have over 100 free ebooks in our library in addition to hundreds of hours of video training, audio training, and online summits/webinars available through our website.
$14,155 spent$107,666 earned by the program0% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$2,186,008 spent$418,981 earned by the program70% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,136,186.
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 2018 to 2019, from $2.5M to $3.1M (+24%).
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.
5% of Church Planting Network Inc’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (90% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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.
Board chair
Todd Milby
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $85k → $7k.
1 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 6% 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 Church Planting Network 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
Church Planting Network Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 67% of grant income and the top three 91%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 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
Church Planting Network Inc draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside North Carolina, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $15k 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.
Against its field
Church Planting Network Inc holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 1,211 religion nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,211 religion nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like Church Planting Network 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 North Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
93% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Church Planting Network Inc: 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 Church Planting Network Inc?
- Church Planting Network Inc (North Carolina) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $275,932 to it, the largest being Buford Foundation ($185,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Church Planting Network Inc have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $275,932 in grants to Church Planting Network Inc, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Church Planting Network Inc?
- Buford Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $185,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Church Planting Network Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. 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 5 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