South Carolina · Nonprofit
HARVESTERS MINISTRIES
HARVESTERS MINISTRIES (South Carolina) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,357,900 to it, the largest being CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($5,380,500). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 87% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $5.1M
- Funders on record
- 17
- Grants received
- $11M
- Net assets
- $1.4M
What Harvesters Ministries does
Mission
Harvesters Ministries is a global church planting ministry, whose mission is to open the way for the world to know jesus with a vision to plant 1 million churches through evangelism and be discipling 100 million believers by 2030, and to have trained 1 million new pastors by 2033.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Training of hub-leader pastors in evangelism, disciple-making, church planting and pastor training: harvesters utilizes a proprietary hub-church planting model and works through national pastors already in place. Countries are identified, and current pastors are invited to learn about and participate in being trained in evangelism and church-planting methods including the hub-church planting model. They create a plan to initiate and coordinate the systematic and strategic planting of churches within a day's walk or bicycle ride of their hub-church. This incorporates evangelism using the heart of man poster series. Regions: central and south america, africa, asia, europe
$1,590,684 spentof which $1,627,141 as grants41% of program spendingTraining of Harvesters Ministries licensed trainers:training current pastors in south africa and the united states, plus local in-country pastors to be harvesters licensed trainers who can travel and train hub-leaders. Regions: central and south america, africa, asia and europe
$74,216 spentof which $80,451 as grants2% of program spendingTranslation and printing of training curriculum: the three and h half year year bible school curriculum for pastor training is composed of seven volumes, plus a hub-leader church-planting manual. Translation of the set usually takes three years and costs $30,000 per set per language. Once translated, these books are printed according to the number of new pastor students who are being trained. Printing takes place around the world according to the best pricing and logistics, and then delivered to the destination where teaching takes place. Translations completed or being translated: 67regions: central and south america, africa, asia
$1,183,595 spent31% of program spendingBibles purchased and distributed - the program supplies bibles to hub-leaders, student pastors and new believers in discipleship programs.
$984,690 spentof which $38,900 as grants26% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,833,185.
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. 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 2024 to 2025, from $807k to $1.4M (+68%).
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.
100% of HARVESTERS MINISTRIES’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. 1 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
Steven Loots
CEO, founder, board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 8 funders, grant income rose $12k → $1.8M.
7 of 17 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 87% 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 HARVESTERS MINISTRIES’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
HARVESTERS MINISTRIES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 47% of grant income and the top three 83%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
91% 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 HARVESTERS MINISTRIES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 91% · 2019 36% · 2020 43% · 2021 91% · 2022 69% · 2023 47% — 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
33% of HARVESTERS MINISTRIES's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 71% 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
87% of HARVESTERS MINISTRIES'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 $1.5M that is directly attributable, 99% of it comes from funders outside South Carolina, across 7 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $9.8M 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
HARVESTERS MINISTRIES has grown faster than three-quarters of the 1,211 religion nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,211 religion nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like HARVESTERS 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 South Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
84%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 51 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for HARVESTERS 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 HARVESTERS MINISTRIES?
- HARVESTERS MINISTRIES (South Carolina) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,357,900 to it, the largest being CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($5,380,500). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 87% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does HARVESTERS MINISTRIES have?
- IRS filings report 17 organizations giving $11,357,900 in grants to HARVESTERS MINISTRIES, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HARVESTERS MINISTRIES?
- CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $5,380,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HARVESTERS MINISTRIES find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in South Carolina. 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 17 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