Michigan · Nonprofit
INTERNATIONAL NEEDS
INTERNATIONAL NEEDS (Michigan) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,243,429 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($1,498,119). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 78% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $4.1M
- Funders on record
- 31
- Grants received
- $5.2M
- Net assets
- $3.4M
What International Needs does
Mission
International Needs has the vision to transform lives and change communities by helping christian nationals serve both god and neighbor within their own countries.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Education support - International Needs provides education assistance programs designed to provide school sponsorship for primary and secondary school children in africa, latin america and asia. Other educational assistance programs include supporting the operations of schools, providing technology resources, and teacher training and support for schools across asia, africa, central europe, and latin america. In addition, an extensive network for support in the area of christian based theological education assistance is provided within the same geographic areas.
$1,608,606 spentof which $1,350,344 as grants39% of program spendingGospel outreach - International Needs provides locally led, christ centered, holistic ministry programs, church planting initiatives, and evangelistic outreaches designed to share the gospel of jesus christ throughout africa, asia, latin america, eastern europe, and the middle east. Designed to transform lives and change communities, these programs include ministries of compassion and target areas of the developing world that are economically impoverished, unreached, or closed to the gospel.
$1,072,404 spentof which $900,229 as grants26% of program spendingEconomic empowerment - International Needs provides christian based economic empowerment activities designed to promote and enhance locally sustainable income generating activities that support vulnerable women refugees, young adults and their families in africa, asia, and the middle east. These activities are designed to provide each participant with improved livelihood capacity that lessens their risk of poverty related abuse and disease.
$371,216 spentof which $311,618 as grants9% of program spendingInternational Needs was founded on a vision to transform lives and change communities, helping christian leaders serve god through assisting the most vulnerable populations within their own countries. That vision has grown to an international network of partnerships of countries in africa, asia, australia, eastern europe and north and south america. Christian leaders throughout this network have united to change lives for jesus christ through a variety of faith-based holistic programs and projects focusing on gospel outreach, education, health, economic development, water and sanitation and refugee assistance. Programs and projects within these service areas target the most vulnerable and needy families and communities within the countries International Needs serve which include: bangladesh, burkina faso, colombia, czech republic, egypt, ethiopia, ghana, india, kenya, nepal, philippines, romania, slovakia, turkey, uganda, vietnam, sri lanka, united states and zambia. The centerpiece of everything International Needs does is faith based, church planting and outreach. Teams of community workers reach individual communities bringing the life-changing message of jesus christ to some…
$1,072,404 spentof which $900,230 as grants26% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,124,630.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2021 to 2022, from $2.5M to $3.2M (+25%).
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. 0 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.
Board chair
Sparks Randy
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 18 funders, grant income rose $111k → $878k.
14 of 31 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 78% 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 INTERNATIONAL NEEDS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 31 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
INTERNATIONAL NEEDS has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 29% 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
86% 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 INTERNATIONAL NEEDS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 51% · 2018 51% · 2019 62% · 2020 42% · 2021 40% · 2022 25% · 2023 22% — 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
68% of INTERNATIONAL NEEDS'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
78% of INTERNATIONAL NEEDS'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 $1.1M that is directly attributable, 56% of it comes from funders outside Michigan, across 11 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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 INTERNATIONAL NEEDS
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 Michigan
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
87% 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 2 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for INTERNATIONAL NEEDS: 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 INTERNATIONAL NEEDS?
- INTERNATIONAL NEEDS (Michigan) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,243,429 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($1,498,119). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 78% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does INTERNATIONAL NEEDS have?
- IRS filings report 31 organizations giving $5,243,429 in grants to INTERNATIONAL NEEDS, 22 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of INTERNATIONAL NEEDS?
- NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,498,119 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like INTERNATIONAL NEEDS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Michigan. 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 2018–2024), and the filings of 31 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