Illinois · Nonprofit
GLOBAL ACTION
GLOBAL ACTION (Illinois) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,415,493 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($538,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 94% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.1M
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $1.4M
- Net assets
- $382k
What Global Action does
Mission
Global Action is a nonprofit religious organization, incorporated in 1998, whose purpose is to proclaim the kingdom of god in word and deed to people around the world and serve the church by empowering, training, motivating, and mobilizing its people so that they become fully devoted followers of christ.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Global Action's training program is called "foundations". The program equips pastors and leaders, the vast majority of whom have had no formal biblical training. It is a 9-month course that teaches biblical foundations and leadership, through a non-denominational framework. The goal is multiplaction and community transformation in that these pastors and leaders then train others in their towns and villages. Course are taught in latin america, eastern europe, africa and central asia.
$351,095 spentof which $541,061 as grants44% of program spendingGlobal Action partners with organizations or individuals in four regional locations. Global Action provides ministry and project support for each partner as part of it's program services, this support allows the partner to hire locally thereby supporting the local community (various project area) as part of its outreach.
$442,171 spent56% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $793,266.
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 $195k to $486k (+149%).
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 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
103% of GLOBAL ACTION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (90% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Board chair
Robert Smith
Board chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $32k → $231k.
8 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 94% 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 GLOBAL ACTION’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
GLOBAL ACTION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 85%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
98% 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 GLOBAL ACTION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 44% · 2018 80% · 2019 47% · 2020 61% · 2021 41% · 2022 38% · 2023 52% — 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
38% of GLOBAL ACTION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 75% 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
94% of GLOBAL ACTION'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 $80k that is directly attributable, 88% of it comes from funders outside Illinois, across 4 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
GLOBAL ACTION has grown faster than half of the 2,394 religion nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,394 religion nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like GLOBAL ACTION
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 Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
74% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
92%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 11 states
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Global Action Foundation Costa Rica · disregarded
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for GLOBAL ACTION: 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 GLOBAL ACTION?
- GLOBAL ACTION (Illinois) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,415,493 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($538,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 94% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does GLOBAL ACTION have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $1,415,493 in grants to GLOBAL ACTION, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GLOBAL ACTION?
- NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC is the largest funder on record, with $538,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GLOBAL ACTION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 12 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