Texas · Nonprofit
E3 Partners Ministry
E3 Partners Ministry (Texas) receives grants from 105 organizations whose IRS filings report $144,734,199 to it, the largest being PURE INC ($96,383,334). 56 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 73% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2023
- $19M
- Funders on record
- 105
- Grants received
- $145M
- Net assets
- $5.5M
What E3 Partners Ministry does
Mission
e3 Partners Ministry (e3) endeavors to equip believers worldwide with tools and training designed to help evangelize their communities in order to establish thriving churches.
As stated on its FY2023 Form 990.
Programs
e3 is a multi-denominational evangelistic and church planting organization serving people throughout the world. e3's mission is "To EQUIP God's people to EVANGELIZE His world by ESTABLISHING healthy, multiplying, transformative churches everywhere." e3 Partners Ministry spreads the Gospel of Jesus Christ by equipping Christians and mobilizing local churches to effectively evangelize their own communities with effective tools for evangelism, disciple-making, and prayer. e3 Partners Ministry is also active in supporting missionaries, leading conferences, and conducting mission trips to assist existing churches in foreign countries in starting new churches and to train pastors to support the new churches.
$15,068,595 spentof which $1,667,349 as grants$172 earned by the program92% of program spendinge3 Partners' I Am Second initiative reaches into our culture through digital/media storytelling that lifts up Jesus and provides bridges to help people become and live Second (as a follower of Jesus). I Am Second accomplishes this by: (1) Creating films, tools and other forms of multimedia that tell authentic stories. (2) Communicating content through our website, social media, marketing and events. (3) Connecting people with tools, training and personal engagement to live Second (live as a follower of Jesus). I Am Second partners with ministries, churches, and media organizations around the world to follow up on the contacts generated by I Am Second content, while working directly with e3 Partners staff to achieve e3's major objectives.
$1,350,108 spentof which $14,500 as grants$-12,586 earned by the program8% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2022 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $16,418,703.
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 2017 to 2018, from $4.5M to $6.4M (+41%).
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: 2021 10% · 2022 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
103% of E3 Partners Ministry’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (84% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 7 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 25 funders to 41 funders, grant income rose $14M → $22M.
32 of 105 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 74% 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 E3 Partners Ministry’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 105 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
E3 Partners Ministry leans on a few funders — its largest provides 67% of grant income and the top three 88%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
90% 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 E3 Partners Ministry.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 87% · 2018 79% · 2019 95% · 2020 64% · 2021 77% · 2022 81% · 2023 78% — 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
40% of E3 Partners Ministry's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% 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
73% of E3 Partners Ministry'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 $38M that is directly attributable, 64% of it comes from funders outside Texas, across 26 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $106M arriving through sponsors registered in 20 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
E3 Partners Ministry receives grants from 105 organizations whose IRS filings report $145M to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 234 religion nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2023
Organizations like E3 Partners Ministry
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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 10 states
Part of a family of 4 related entities
- LKL Film LLC · disregarded
- IAS Media LLC · disregarded
- Servio Global Initiatives LLC · disregarded
- Fortis Organizational Solutions LLC · disregarded
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for E3 Partners Ministry: 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 E3 Partners Ministry?
- E3 Partners Ministry (Texas) receives grants from 105 organizations whose IRS filings report $144,734,199 to it, the largest being PURE INC ($96,383,334). 56 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 73% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does E3 Partners Ministry have?
- IRS filings report 105 organizations giving $144,734,199 in grants to E3 Partners Ministry, 56 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of E3 Partners Ministry?
- PURE INC is the largest funder on record, with $96,383,334 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like E3 Partners Ministry find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 FY2023 (financials across 2017–2023), and the filings of 105 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