Tennessee · Nonprofit
FIRST PRIORITY GLOBAL MINISTRIES
FIRST PRIORITY GLOBAL MINISTRIES (Tennessee) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $247,633 to it, the largest being GS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC ($75,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 55% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2022
- $1.9M
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $248k
- Net assets
- $672k
What First Priority Global Ministries does
Mission
To present the good news of jesus christ to people throughout the world, to launch new ministry endeavors, and to engage in any activity that would further advance the kingdom of god in this world.
As stated on its FY2022 Form 990.
Programs
1. SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA. Dozens of new Youth Ministries were started in cities across Africa including the Ethiopian region in such places as Hossana, Tefki, Durame City, Hawassa, Addis Ababa, AA Lafto, AA Kolfe, and Jigjiga in the Somolia region. Additonally, both new and established ministries in Zambia and Uganda saw hundreds of teens growing in their Christian faith and discipleship.
$605,558 spentof which $319,707 as grants38% of program spending2. SOUTH AISA. Existing youth ministries among several countries in South Asia saw teens being trained, mobilized and fruitful among their peers. Additionally, humanitarian aid, such as food and education, coupled with preaching the Gospel resulted in hundreds of new converts who were baptized and new bamboo structures were built for weekly church services, and construction on our first Mission Connection Center was completed. The previously stated, and never-ending goal of vision casting, enlisting, and training new coaches, who, in turn, develop new First Priority youth ministry clubs with teen ministers, multiplied in Southeast Asia in 2021, even including ministry being started among national soccer teams of Nepal, and trekkers in the Everest Region.
$162,897 spentof which $31,049 as grants10% of program spending3. EAST AISA & PACIFIC. The ministry of First Priority, teen led ministry in East Asia and the pacific, like all of the other regions, saw many great inroads for the Lord.In Myanmar, (Burma), teen disciples distributed rice to hundreds of the war-torn, hunger plagued people. The Training center built last year was used to teach school to young people who otherwise would have had no school. A team of about a dozen nineteen to 30 year old disciples went on a 3 month tour all over and ministered to needy locals, started churches and helped to construct more bamboo facilities, and started community and sports association ministries.
$135,186 spentof which $27,000 as grants8% of program spendingThe remainder of the program expenses were used in a variety of ways (I.e. Teaching materials, travel, training, foreign ministry donations, payroll, etc.) to further the mission of the organization as stated above in part iii, section 1. These program expenses were not directly attributable to the three program service accomplished explained above.
$710,183 spent44% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2022 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,613,824.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2019 to 2020, from $62k to $402k (+553%).
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.
99% of FIRST PRIORITY GLOBAL MINISTRIES’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (90% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 5 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.
Chief executive
Benny Proffitt
CEO
As listed on its FY2022 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $12k → $10k.
5 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 55% 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 FIRST PRIORITY GLOBAL MINISTRIES’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
FIRST PRIORITY GLOBAL MINISTRIES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 30% of grant income and the top three 73%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
55% 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 FIRST PRIORITY GLOBAL MINISTRIES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 99% · 2022 42% · 2023 99% — 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.
How long its funders stay
50% of FIRST PRIORITY GLOBAL MINISTRIES's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 67% 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
55% of FIRST PRIORITY GLOBAL MINISTRIES'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 $112k that is directly attributable, 99% of it comes from funders outside Tennessee, across 4 states.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $136k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
FIRST PRIORITY GLOBAL MINISTRIES has grown faster than three-quarters of the 2,142 religion nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,142 religion nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2022
Organizations like FIRST PRIORITY GLOBAL MINISTRIES
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 Tennessee
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
92% 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 12 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FIRST PRIORITY GLOBAL MINISTRIES: 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 FIRST PRIORITY GLOBAL MINISTRIES?
- FIRST PRIORITY GLOBAL MINISTRIES (Tennessee) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $247,633 to it, the largest being GS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC ($75,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 55% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does FIRST PRIORITY GLOBAL MINISTRIES have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $247,633 in grants to FIRST PRIORITY GLOBAL MINISTRIES, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FIRST PRIORITY GLOBAL MINISTRIES?
- GS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC is the largest funder on record, with $75,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FIRST PRIORITY GLOBAL MINISTRIES 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 FY2022 (financials across 2018–2022), and the filings of 9 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