Texas · Nonprofit
LEAD FOR CHRIST Leadership Vistas International Ministries
LEAD FOR CHRIST Leadership Vistas International Ministries (Texas) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $31,432 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($20,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 91% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $174k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $31k
- Net assets
- $109k
What LEAD FOR CHRIST Leadership Vistas International Ministries does
Mission
To help equip, through high quality training conferences and mentoring, African pastors and church leaders to fulfil their calling from God in the advancement of God's Kingdom. Such education and training is not accessible to those we serve.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
March 2025 - Training conference held in Kisoro, Uganda. Conducted level 2 training curriculum for 60 participants. Training conference held in Kabale, Uganda conducting level 3 curriculum for 35 pastors. The pastors were selected for our Train the Trainer curriculum. They are being trained and commissioned to go out and train others using LEAD curriculum, multiplying the impact and reach of our ministry.
$26,174 spent38% of program spendingAugust 2025 - Conducted Level 2 Plenary Conference Curriculum for 57 Pastors and Church Leaders in Eldoret, Kenya. Conducted level 3 Curriculum of our Train the Trainer Program for 33 Pastors in Eldoret, Kenya. These pastors were selected for this program which will commission them to go out and train others using the LEAD curriculum multiplying the impact of our ministry.
$43,090 spent62% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $69,264.
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. 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 2020 to 2021, from $45k to $104k (+131%).
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.
99% of LEAD FOR CHRIST Leadership Vistas International Ministries’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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
David Bohyer
Executive Director, Signor on Accounts
Board chair
Patrick Foss
Board Chairman, Signor on Accounts
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 2 funders, grant income fell $17k → $414.
4 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 91% 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 LEAD FOR CHRIST Leadership Vistas International 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
LEAD FOR CHRIST Leadership Vistas International Ministries leans on a few funders — its largest provides 64% of grant income and the top three 92%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder 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 LEAD FOR CHRIST Leadership Vistas International Ministries.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 58% · 2018 88% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 92% — 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.
Where its funders are
91% of LEAD FOR CHRIST Leadership Vistas International 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 $3k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Texas, across 1 state.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $29k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
LEAD FOR CHRIST Leadership Vistas International Ministries runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 7,334 religion nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,334 religion nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like LEAD FOR CHRIST Leadership Vistas International 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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
90%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LEAD FOR CHRIST Leadership Vistas International 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 LEAD FOR CHRIST Leadership Vistas International Ministries?
- LEAD FOR CHRIST Leadership Vistas International Ministries (Texas) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $31,432 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($20,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 91% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does LEAD FOR CHRIST Leadership Vistas International Ministries have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $31,432 in grants to LEAD FOR CHRIST Leadership Vistas International Ministries, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LEAD FOR CHRIST Leadership Vistas International Ministries?
- NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $20,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LEAD FOR CHRIST Leadership Vistas International Ministries find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 5 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