Arizona · Nonprofit
DISCIPLE NATIONS ALLIANCE
DISCIPLE NATIONS ALLIANCE (Arizona) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,005,673 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($2,884,380). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 75% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.3M
- Funders on record
- 20
- Grants received
- $4.0M
- Net assets
- $366k
What Disciple Nations Alliance does
Mission
The Disciple Nations Alliance equips followers of Jesus with a biblical worldview, empowering them to build thriving cultures, communities, and nations.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
The organization's mission is to equip local churches to more effectively reach out into their communities with the love of jesus and biblical values. This is accomplished through teaching and training, speaking engagements, conferences, and publishing books and curricula aimed at envisioning and equipping christian churches with practical ideas and resources for biblical, social, and cultural transformation. The vision of the organization is to see engaged, credible, high-impact local churches affect real transformation in their communities.
$926,975 spentof which $390,530 as grants73% of program spending1,041 people completed our core training or were otherwise deeply impacted by our training resources and content.
$266,289 spentof which $261,529 as grants$293,351 earned by the program21% of program spendingWe completed and released five online videos summarizing our core training messages.
$51,249 spentof which $4,000 as grants$101,249 earned by the program4% of program spendingWe expanded and clarified the roles of our Network Development Coordinators.
$15,328 spent$34,828 earned by the program1% of program spendingWe released a new book and curriculum titled 10 Words to Heal our Broken World.
$4,451 spent$4,451 earned by the program0% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,264,292.
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 2021 to 2022, from $711k to $390k (−45%).
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 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of DISCIPLE NATIONS ALLIANCE’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $230k → $595k.
7 of 20 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 75% 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 DISCIPLE NATIONS ALLIANCE’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
DISCIPLE NATIONS ALLIANCE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 72% of grant income and the top three 85%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
77% 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 DISCIPLE NATIONS ALLIANCE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 56% · 2018 47% · 2019 84% · 2020 80% · 2021 86% · 2022 70% · 2023 77% — 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
46% of DISCIPLE NATIONS ALLIANCE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% 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
75% of DISCIPLE NATIONS ALLIANCE'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 $985k that is directly attributable, 92% of it comes from funders outside Arizona, across 10 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
DISCIPLE NATIONS ALLIANCE has grown faster than half of the 11,761 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,761 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like DISCIPLE NATIONS ALLIANCE
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 Arizona
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
48%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for DISCIPLE NATIONS ALLIANCE: 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 DISCIPLE NATIONS ALLIANCE?
- DISCIPLE NATIONS ALLIANCE (Arizona) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,005,673 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($2,884,380). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 75% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does DISCIPLE NATIONS ALLIANCE have?
- IRS filings report 20 organizations giving $4,005,673 in grants to DISCIPLE NATIONS ALLIANCE, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DISCIPLE NATIONS ALLIANCE?
- NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC is the largest funder on record, with $2,884,380 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DISCIPLE NATIONS ALLIANCE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Arizona. 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 20 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing