Mississippi · Nonprofit
GLOBAL CONNECTIONS
GLOBAL CONNECTIONS (Mississippi) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $945,954 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ($365,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 68% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.3M
- Funders on record
- 15
- Grants received
- $946k
- Net assets
- $502k
What Global Connections does
Mission
To provide a means through which aid may be given to those in need, particularly people in third world countries. Global Connections addresses social injustice through sustainable humanitarian aid to the orphan, widow, poor and oppressed while providing opportunities to serve and learn from the world's marginalized people.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Limuru children's centre (lcc): maintain baby home section that houses up to 12 abandoned infants waiting for adoption. Adoptions are ongoing and the baby home is able to continue to accept new infants as others are adopted. Provide educational opportunities to children from preschool through college. The godparent sponsorship program continues to provide financial support to house, feed, and educate the 60 children in the full legal custody of the lcc. The lcc provides a home with parents, tutoring, education, counseling, medical care, and all other related needs. The lcc operates two preschools providing disadvantaged children with educational opportunities to prepare them for success in primary school and beyond. The lcc also operates the life house which is a transitional program for lcc teenagers as they move through high school, college or trade school and into independent adulthood.
$1,153,470 spentof which $1,153,470 as grants90% of program spendingFeeding programs: pat's feeding program is organized by pat dixson, a british native of kenya. She operates a bi-monthly feeding program for the elderly and single women who are hiv positive. During the winter, she provides blankets and other basic needs. This program serves approximately 500 individuals/families. The katana feeding program provides one meal weekly to an averge of 60 children per week. It is overseen by evans katana, a kenyan pastor and bible college administrator. During the school holidays (twice each year), pastor katana also provides a retreat/camp for the children which emphasizes learning skills, healthy relationships, and personal wellness.
$53,631 spentof which $53,631 as grants4% of program spendingOther program services include support for child sponsorship and scholarships for children in africa, and other projects that further the Global Connections mission.
$72,273 spent6% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,279,374.
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 2019 to 2020, from $770k to $949k (+23%).
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.
96% of GLOBAL CONNECTIONS’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (97% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 9 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
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 8 funders, grant income fell $160k → $104k.
10 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 68% 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 CONNECTIONS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 14 of 15 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
GLOBAL CONNECTIONS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 39% of grant income and the top three 69%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
68% 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 CONNECTIONS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 62% · 2019 42% · 2020 72% · 2021 83% · 2022 63% · 2023 37% — 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
75% of GLOBAL CONNECTIONS's funders are still giving 3 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
68% of GLOBAL CONNECTIONS'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 $301k that is directly attributable, 83% of it comes from Mississippi funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $645k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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 CONNECTIONS's revenue grew 82% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 798 international nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like GLOBAL CONNECTIONS
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 Mississippi
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
93% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
72%
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 GLOBAL CONNECTIONS: 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 CONNECTIONS?
- GLOBAL CONNECTIONS (Mississippi) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $945,954 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ($365,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 68% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does GLOBAL CONNECTIONS have?
- IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $945,954 in grants to GLOBAL CONNECTIONS, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GLOBAL CONNECTIONS?
- AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $365,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GLOBAL CONNECTIONS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Mississippi. 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 15 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