California · Nonprofit
HIGHER PURPOSE
HIGHER PURPOSE (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $35,500 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($25,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $144k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $36k
- Net assets
- $69k
What Higher Purpose does
Mission
The purpose of the organization is to conduct the works of the Church in a variety of ministries including church worship and fellowship meetings conducted by ordained pastors ministries spreading the Christian gospel and carrying on humanitarian and development activities both locally and abroad and providing services and charitable aid to those in need.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Bridge Christian Fellowship is a church congregation with weekly worship prayer and bible meetings led by an ordained pastor. The fellowship currently has appro ximately 15 members.
$52,225 spent42% of program spendingFrancophone Center for Mission - is a ministry in French speaking Africa to conduct church conferences 2 each year and economic development projects,. Prison ministries are also conducted. In current year published 4 books on mission work Trained 187 persons for ministry and spoke to international gather of more than 5000 mission leaders in Mali
$30,706 spent25% of program spendingEl Shaddai Resource Center provides church leadership training of pastors in Asia approx 20 Home bible studies 2 and economic development and AIDS awareness training are also provided.
$8,400 spent7% of program spendingTraining Mission ministry provides online theological training in Asia The ministry has thousands of views anually. The executive director took one trip overseas in the current year to conduct training in several cities at his own expense.
$0 spent0% of program spendingArabic Free Methodist Church is a congregation of approximately 40 persons of Arab decent which meet weekly for worship bible study and prayer led by an ordained pastor. The congregation has a large program providing food and aid for approximately 60 persons in the SoCal immigrant community of which it is a part.
$30,937 spentof which $2,755 as grants25% of program spendingHope Projects takes young people on mission trips to serve refugees orphans and others in distressed circumstances. In the current year one person was assisted with travel cost to work for a week at a refugee camp in Greece.
$900 spent1% of program spending
The 6 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $123,168.
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 2022 to 2023, from $72k to $50k (−31%).
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 HIGHER PURPOSE’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 5 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.
Board chair
Dennis Lautzenheiser
Board Chair and Secretary
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $25k → $0.
2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 HIGHER PURPOSE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 2 of 3 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
HIGHER PURPOSE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 70% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 HIGHER PURPOSE.
“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.
Where its funders are
100% of HIGHER PURPOSE'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $36k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
HIGHER PURPOSE runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 12,816 religion nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,816 religion nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like HIGHER PURPOSE
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
56%
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 HIGHER PURPOSE: 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 HIGHER PURPOSE?
- HIGHER PURPOSE (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $35,500 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($25,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does HIGHER PURPOSE have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $35,500 in grants to HIGHER PURPOSE.
- Who is the largest funder of HIGHER PURPOSE?
- NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC is the largest funder on record, with $25,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HIGHER PURPOSE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 3 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