Minnesota · Nonprofit
GLOBAL HEALTH MINISTRIES
GLOBAL HEALTH MINISTRIES (Minnesota) receives grants from 40 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,731,305 to it, the largest being SEEDS OF CHANGE FOUNDATION ($2,923,975). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $9.9M
- Funders on record
- 40
- Grants received
- $5.7M
- Net assets
- $8.2M
What Global Health Ministries does
Mission
Global Health Ministries builds partnerships to benefit lutheran efforts in health care for some of the world's most vulnerable people. Ghm accomplishes this mission with three broad strategies: shipping of medical supplies, grassroots efforts and leadership training.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Shipping medical supplies and equipment: most mission hospitals lack important medical equipment and even basic supplies. Global Health Ministries (ghm) gathers donated medical items, from exam gloves to ultrasounds, and matches them to requests from partners in developing countries. We purchase and ship new equipment as well, making quality health care accessible for some of the world's most vulnerable people. In 2025 ghm shipped 16 sea containers in support of hospitals and clinics in four countries. Fifteen travelers hand carried medical supplies and equipment in twenty four suitcases to nine different countries.
$7,585,324 spentof which $7,136,475 as grants$83,220 earned by the program72% of program spendingGrassroots efforts: ghm supports efforts to train and sustain community health workers (chw) to build capacity in lower & middle income countries to improve health and effect sustainable and enduring change. In 2025, ghm supported chw programs in el salvador, madagascar, nicaragua, nigeria, and tanzania.
$2,162,847 spentof which $2,032,242 as grants21% of program spendingLeadership training: upon request, ghm offers consultants in governance, management, and leadership for health leaders in the developing world, through our consulting department. In 2025, ghm conducted 14 consultations in 8 countries and is enhancing long-term relationships in several partner countries. Ghm funded training & scholarships for 1,451 people in five countries.
$760,605 spentof which $714,851 as grants7% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $10,508,776.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2022 to 2023, from $7.1M to $8.4M (+18%).
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.
97% of GLOBAL HEALTH MINISTRIES’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (97% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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 12 funders to 16 funders, grant income rose $319k → $1.1M.
14 of 40 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 23% 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 HEALTH MINISTRIES’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 40 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 HEALTH MINISTRIES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 51% of grant income and the top three 71%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
26% 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 HEALTH MINISTRIES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 61% · 2018 42% · 2019 35% · 2020 52% · 2021 33% · 2022 70% · 2023 85% — 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
39% of GLOBAL HEALTH MINISTRIES'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
GLOBAL HEALTH MINISTRIES draws 96% of its grant income from funders outside Minnesota, across 15 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 13 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 HEALTH MINISTRIES is better cushioned than half of the 798 international nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 798 international nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like GLOBAL HEALTH 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 Minnesota
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
92%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for GLOBAL HEALTH 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 GLOBAL HEALTH MINISTRIES?
- GLOBAL HEALTH MINISTRIES (Minnesota) receives grants from 40 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,731,305 to it, the largest being SEEDS OF CHANGE FOUNDATION ($2,923,975). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GLOBAL HEALTH MINISTRIES have?
- IRS filings report 40 organizations giving $5,731,305 in grants to GLOBAL HEALTH MINISTRIES, 21 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GLOBAL HEALTH MINISTRIES?
- SEEDS OF CHANGE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,923,975 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GLOBAL HEALTH MINISTRIES find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 40 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