Kansas · Nonprofit
GLOBAL SCHOLARS
GLOBAL SCHOLARS (Kansas) receives grants from 37 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,817,390 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($667,782). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 79% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.0M
- Funders on record
- 37
- Grants received
- $2.8M
- Net assets
- $1.9M
What Global Scholars does
Mission
Global Scholars exists so that christian academics are adequately equipped to have a redemptive influence among their students, colleagues, universities and disciplines, at a reasonable cost.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Global Scholars equips, supports, and/or resources more than 1,350 academics around the world. These academics influence their students, colleagues, disciplines, and universities for christ through teaching, research, and administrative duties. Among the 1,350 academics served were 45 fellows who received additional faculty care, fundraising support, and other administrative services.
$1,012,341 spentof which $12,000 as grants69% of program spendingIn march 2019, the society of christian scholars launched, offering 14 benefits or services to its members. At the end of fy 23-24, the society had 344 members of the society's online community. Additionally, the society had 1,009 members who are participating in local society groups and programs. The society of christian scholars equips scholars to: 1. Grow in christlikeness through spiritual formation in the academic setting2. Exhibit excellence in research, pedagogy, and administration3. Think christianly about all research issues and agendas4. Adapt successfully to the uniqueness of one's ethnic and institutional culture5. Communicate the gospel effectively and help others grow in their faith6. Collaborate with other christian scholars locally and globally
$462,541 spentof which $10,023 as grants31% of program spendingGlobal Scholars is partnering with other like-minded ministries to improve the processes related to identifying, training, and supporting u.s. Scholars who wish to serve in universities outside of the u.s. And canada.
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,474,882.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $998k to $1.5M (+46%).
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 17% · 2022 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Chief executive
Dr Stan Wallace
President & CEO
Board chair
Mr Jt Smith
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 14 funders to 20 funders, grant income fell $340k → $296k.
15 of 37 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 79% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $283k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Cooperative Studies). These are real filings, and they are not money GLOBAL SCHOLARS raised.
From the IRS filings of GLOBAL SCHOLARS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 37 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 SCHOLARS has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 24% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
84% 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 SCHOLARS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 41% · 2018 26% · 2019 22% · 2020 20% · 2021 15% · 2022 49% · 2023 41% — 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
60% of GLOBAL SCHOLARS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 73% 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
79% of GLOBAL SCHOLARS'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 $592k that is directly attributable, 97% of it comes from funders outside Kansas, across 13 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 12 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 SCHOLARS
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 Kansas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
75% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 17 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for GLOBAL SCHOLARS: 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 SCHOLARS?
- GLOBAL SCHOLARS (Kansas) receives grants from 37 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,817,390 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($667,782). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 79% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does GLOBAL SCHOLARS have?
- IRS filings report 37 organizations giving $2,817,390 in grants to GLOBAL SCHOLARS, 27 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GLOBAL SCHOLARS?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $667,782 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GLOBAL SCHOLARS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Kansas. 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 37 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