Colorado · Nonprofit
GLOBAL ORPHAN RELIEF
GLOBAL ORPHAN RELIEF (Colorado) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $516,688 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($401,342). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 99% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $317k
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $517k
- Net assets
- $0
What Global Orphan Relief does
Mission
To provide loving support for orphaned children, fostering a greater capacity for physical, spiritual, and emotional healing and growth, and deploying the local church to do the same.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
HOME-BASED CARE INITIATIVE - We finished the year providing care for 199 orphan children. We served 45 children at the House of Faith, House of Hope and our Kalomo Home in Zambia, 50 children in widow-led households in Homabay and Meru Kenya, we served 39 orphaned children via our Orphans and Widows partnership with Bethel Church of Pakistan, and lastly, we served 65 orphan children in widow-led households in Sekota, Ethiopia . We accomplish this work in each country with care/aid being distributed by our local field partners in a home/family setting. In 2025, we also provided complete care to children who lived in one of our homes, and for the children we serve through foster care, as they stay with extended families. We assisted with providing whatever the family might need to keep the child in their home. The number of children served in this initiative increased by 13 children or 7 year over year.
$84,762 spent$47,679 earned by the program30% of program spendingNUTRITION INITIATIVE - In 2025, we provided an estimated 447,770 meals at schools and extended families to benefit orphan children in Ethiopia, Kenya, Pakistan, and South Sudan. During the year, we were able to provide food aid to as many as 1,978 orphan children. There was no growth in this initiative over 2024 as we simply maintained our current Mission Projects that distributed food aid with slightly fewer children.
$106,009 spent$21,228 earned by the program38% of program spendingEDUCATION SCHOLARSHIP - We partner with local area schools in Kenya and Zambia that empower orphan children to attend school and continue their education. We partnered with sixteen schools in 2025 that provided education to 485 orphan children in Kenya and Zambia. Most of these children would not attend school if not for our scholarships. These scholarships are awarded on financial need and the parental status of the child. We decreased the number of scholarships granted by 18 in 2025 versus 2024.
$22,317 spent$4,584 earned by the program8% of program spendingProgram Service Expenses 49,772, Grants and allocations 0, Revenue 15,469 CHURCH MOBILIZATION INITIATIVE-We continued to invest in the process of deploying local ministry leaders to serve orphan children in their communities. This deployment in initiated through one-day Great Commandment Workshops, where we encourage the local church to care for orphan children. We ended 2025 with 3,994 GO Ambassadors who are providing some level of care to 14,744 orphan children in Africa and Asia. In addition, 474 GO Ambassadors hosted 1,080 orphan children in their own homes in 2025. Program Service Expenses 19,523, Grants and allocations 0, Revenue 19,000 CAPITAL PROJECTS - In 2025, we continued investing in school infrastructure in South Sudan. This included borehole repairs and the construction of a Water Yard in Aweil Town where we invested 19,000.
$69,295 spent$34,469 earned by the program25% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $282,383.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $63k to $0 (−100%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 6 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
Scott A Nordstrom
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 4 funders, grant income fell $53k → $34k.
6 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 99% 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 ORPHAN RELIEF’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 ORPHAN RELIEF leans on a few funders — its largest provides 78% of grant income and the top three 94%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
99% 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 ORPHAN RELIEF.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 47% · 2018 79% · 2019 99% · 2020 95% · 2021 100% · 2022 81% · 2023 97% — 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
29% of GLOBAL ORPHAN RELIEF's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% 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
99% of GLOBAL ORPHAN RELIEF'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 $7k that is directly attributable, 80% of it comes from funders outside Colorado, across 4 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $509k 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.
Organizations like GLOBAL ORPHAN RELIEF
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 Colorado
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
94% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 ORPHAN RELIEF: 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 ORPHAN RELIEF?
- GLOBAL ORPHAN RELIEF (Colorado) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $516,688 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($401,342). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 99% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does GLOBAL ORPHAN RELIEF have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $516,688 in grants to GLOBAL ORPHAN RELIEF, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GLOBAL ORPHAN RELIEF?
- NETWORK FOR GOOD is the largest funder on record, with $401,342 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GLOBAL ORPHAN RELIEF 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.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2020–2025), and the filings of 11 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