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ENGINEERING MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL USA

ENGINEERING MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL USA (Colorado) receives grants from 56 organizations whose IRS filings report $29,244,519 to it, the largest being THE LEONA M AND HARRY B HELMSLEY CHARITABLE TRUST ($22,068,936). 36 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$6.7M
Funders on record
56
Grants received
$29M
Net assets
$10M
36/56 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 77%
01What it does

What Engineering Ministries International USA does

Mission

The mission of Engineering Ministries International USA (emi) is to develop people, design structures, and construct facilities which serve communities and the church. Emi's vision is: people restored by god and the world restored through design.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Emi usa continued to provide architectural and engineering services for christian ministry clients in countries around the world as well as some work within the united states. Emi usa led teams of volunteers to uganda, malawi, kenya, senegal, chad, and ethiopia as well as to texas, florida, and nebraska. These christian ministries operate mission hospitals, camps, community service and schools. In addition, emi usa provided remote assistance (no international travel) to projects in haiti and burundi. In other areas, emi usa performed technical support to respond to natural and man-made disasters in turkey, kenya, myanmar, and the caribbean. (continued on schedule. O)emi usa was also heavily engaged throughout 2025 in a large multi-year water, sanitation and hygiene (wash) program in remote villages of alaska, which began in early 2021 and will be completed at the end of 2026.

    $5,714,317 spentof which $2,646,391 as grants$601,384 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $5,714,317.

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 ($5.8M) Expenses 100 ($5.3M) Net assets 100 ($3.9M)2019 Revenue 123 ($7.1M) Expenses 137 ($7.3M) Net assets 96 ($3.7M)2020 Revenue 120 ($7.0M) Expenses 122 ($6.5M) Net assets 108 ($4.2M)2021 Revenue 167 ($9.7M) Expenses 141 ($7.5M) Net assets 165 ($6.4M)2022 Revenue 252 ($15M) Expenses 222 ($12M) Net assets 235 ($9.1M)2023 Revenue 222 ($13M) Expenses 226 ($12M) Net assets 260 ($10M)2024 Revenue 253 ($15M) Expenses 282 ($15M) Net assets 260 ($10M)2025 Revenue 116 ($6.7M) Expenses 140 ($7.5M) Net assets 262 ($10M)
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Revenue (116)Expenses (140)Net assets (262)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 2021 to 2022, from $14M to $25M (+76%).

$3.9M
$4.2M
$12M
$14M
$25M
$23M
$19M
$18M
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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
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

86% of ENGINEERING MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL USA’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (68% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 497 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$490k
’17
−$142k
’19
$469k
’20
$2.2M
’21
$2.8M
’22
$831k
’23
−$329k
’24
−$732k
’25
1.1
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.

Board chair

Brian Beaird

Board chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

2017201920202021202220242025
Listed11161712121612
Joined··+2+0+0·+3
No longer listed··150·7
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 14 funders to 22 funders, grant income rose $303k → $8.2M.

22 of 56 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 19% 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 ENGINEERING MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL USA’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 56 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

ENGINEERING MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL USA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 75% of grant income and the top three 90%; half comes from just 1 funder.

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

75%
largest funder
90%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 59% · 2018 47% · 2019 46% · 2020 40% · 2021 91% · 2022 86% · 2023 87% — 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

40% of ENGINEERING MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL USA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

ENGINEERING MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL USA draws 99% of its grant income from funders outside Colorado, across 22 states in all.

MN
MI
NY
WY
IA
OH
PA
CT
CA
CO
NE
MO
VA
MD
DE
KS
AR
NC
SC
MS
AL
TX

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’23
Colorado out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 16 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

ENGINEERING MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL USA's funding base is broadening — from 14 funders to 22 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin−11% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve1.1mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)2% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 234 science & tech nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

77% of spending goes to programs.

Program 77%Management 18%Fundraising 5%

Governance

12
board members
83%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

72%

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds ENGINEERING MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL USA?
ENGINEERING MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL USA (Colorado) receives grants from 56 organizations whose IRS filings report $29,244,519 to it, the largest being THE LEONA M AND HARRY B HELMSLEY CHARITABLE TRUST ($22,068,936). 36 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does ENGINEERING MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL USA have?
IRS filings report 56 organizations giving $29,244,519 in grants to ENGINEERING MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL USA, 36 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of ENGINEERING MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL USA?
THE LEONA M AND HARRY B HELMSLEY CHARITABLE TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $22,068,936 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like ENGINEERING MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL USA find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Colorado. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 56 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