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DESIRING ADVANCEMENT OVERSEAS INC

DESIRING ADVANCEMENT OVERSEAS INC (Tennessee) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $81,847 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($51,637). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 99% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$508k
Funders on record
5
Grants received
$82k
Net assets
$72k
3/5 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 9%
01What it does

What Desiring Advancement Overseas Inc does

Mission

Seeing spiritual advancement in unreached, isolated and remote people groups through makeing the gospel of jesus christ accessbile to them

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. We work with christian aviation organizations that support remote missions efforts through the transportation of the missionaries, and their supplies so that their translation and church planting efforts can continue. We mobilize and facilitate believers that have a desire to be a part of seeing the yet unreached people groups have their first opportunity to hear the gospel. We work to support and train national evangelists and pastors that are trying to reach out to other isolated and remote areas of their own countries and tribes and other isolated and remote people groups.

    $294,690 spent$507,777 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $294,690.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($191k) Expenses 100 ($194k) Net assets 100 ($61k)2018 Revenue 109 ($208k) Expenses 104 ($202k) Net assets 31 ($19k)2019 Revenue 78 ($149k) Expenses 77 ($148k) Net assets 111 ($67k)2020 Revenue 109 ($208k) Expenses 116 ($224k) Net assets 84 ($51k)2021 Revenue 184 ($351k) Expenses 164 ($318k) Net assets 139 ($84k)2022 Revenue 155 ($296k) Expenses 158 ($306k) Net assets 123 ($74k)2023 Revenue 200 ($383k) Expenses 205 ($397k) Net assets 99 ($60k)2024 Revenue 192 ($366k) Expenses 193 ($373k) Net assets 87 ($53k)2025 Revenue 266 ($508k) Expenses 252 ($488k) Net assets 119 ($72k)
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Revenue (266)Expenses (252)Net assets (119)Peer revenue range

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 $19k to $67k (+261%).

$61k
$19k
$67k
$51k
$84k
$74k
$60k
$53k
$72k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2018 100%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

100% of DESIRING ADVANCEMENT OVERSEAS INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (57% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 24,946 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$3k
’17
$6k
’18
$726
’19
−$16k
’20
$33k
’21
−$10k
’22
−$14k
’23
−$8k
’24
$19k
’25
0.6
months of
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.

2018202020212022202320242025
Listed1111111
Joined·······
No longer listed·······
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $12k → $34k.

4 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 99% 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 DESIRING ADVANCEMENT OVERSEAS 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

DESIRING ADVANCEMENT OVERSEAS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 63% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

99% 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 DESIRING ADVANCEMENT OVERSEAS INC.

63%
largest funder
98%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 86% · 2021 99% · 2022 99% · 2023 50% — 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.

Where its funders are

99% of DESIRING ADVANCEMENT OVERSEAS 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 $1k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Tennessee funders.

TN

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $81k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

DESIRING ADVANCEMENT OVERSEAS INC has grown faster than half of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin4% · below the median
Months of reserve0.6mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)13% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like DESIRING ADVANCEMENT OVERSEAS INC

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

60% of spending goes to programs.

Program 60%Management 31%Fundraising 9%

Governance

5
board members
80%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds DESIRING ADVANCEMENT OVERSEAS INC?
DESIRING ADVANCEMENT OVERSEAS INC (Tennessee) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $81,847 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($51,637). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 99% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does DESIRING ADVANCEMENT OVERSEAS INC have?
IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $81,847 in grants to DESIRING ADVANCEMENT OVERSEAS INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of DESIRING ADVANCEMENT OVERSEAS INC?
NETWORK FOR GOOD is the largest funder on record, with $51,637 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like DESIRING ADVANCEMENT OVERSEAS INC 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.

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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