Texas · Nonprofit
LEAP GLOBAL MISSIONS
LEAP GLOBAL MISSIONS (Texas) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,131,432 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($307,650). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 70% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.1M
- Funders on record
- 25
- Grants received
- $1.1M
- Net assets
- $3.2M
What Leap Global Missions does
Mission
Leap Global Missions is dedicated to enhancing and enriching the lives of people around the world by providing specialized medical and surgical services, free of charge, where there is a lack of access to specialized medical care. Leap returns to the same global communities each year, enabling leap to develop strong partnerships and trusting relationships with the people they serve.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Mission program: leap conducts approximately four to six mission trips each year through the mission program. Leap's volunteers include physicians, nurses, and other medical support staff and nonmedical volunteers who dedicate their time and expertise. The people served by leap live in regions with limited medical resources and socio-economic challenges. The current outreach includes recurring mission trips and support to belize, zimbabwe, mexico and ukraine. In 2024, leap performed approximately 450 specialized surgeries and procedures and 153 dental procedures in belize, mexico, ukraine and zimbabwe.
$772,690 spentof which $225,427 as grants86% of program spendingMary lamon memorial fund: through partnership with medical city children's hospital in dallas, the mary lamon memorial fund makes it possible for children with the most complex craniofacial surgical needs to travel to the united states to receive medical and surgical care. Many of the children served by leap have such severe craniofacial conditions that they have been abandoned as infants or sent to palliative care facilities. Leap covers the travel and surgical costs of the patients and also coordinates host families who will offer these children a loving and safe environment while they heal. Through this program, leap has performed reconstructive surgery on approximately 50 patients from 15 countries. In 2024, funding from this program helped a child from cuba receive much-needed surgical care. Through this program, leap has also pledged future funding for the construction of a pediatric ward at our partner hospital in belize.
$3,100 spent0% of program spendingCheryl lamon memorial program: in 2019, through the generosity of a donor, leap created the cheryl lamon memorial program. This program has two initiatives. Firstly, this program provided financial support to casa josefina, an orphanage in cusco, peru, and its related medical clinic, la fuente centro de salud integral. In addition, this program brings patients from other countries to the united states for complex surgical care or other health-related issues which cannot be treated in their home country. In 2024, funding from this program helped patients from nicaragua and india receive much-needed surgical care.
$47,309 spent5% of program spendingMary's gift: mary's gift is done in partnership with the ministry of health of belize, northern regional hospital, and the rotary club of orange walk that offers comprehensive care to children with cleft lip and/or palate living in belize. Support to children and families in belize includes: feeding instructions for newborns, preparation for surgery, surgical intervention, education about speech and hearing development, and dental care. This program also involves training seminars for medical professionals.
$80,051 spent9% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $903,150.
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 2018 to 2019, from $2.7M to $3.1M (+18%).
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: 2020 3% · 2021 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
93% of LEAP GLOBAL MISSIONS’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (97% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 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
Cheryl Anderson Cermin Dds
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018, and between the FY2019 and FY2020 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $101k → $174k.
9 of 25 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 70% 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 LEAP GLOBAL MISSIONS’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
LEAP GLOBAL MISSIONS has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 27% 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
78% 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 LEAP GLOBAL MISSIONS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 56% · 2018 28% · 2019 33% · 2020 61% · 2021 44% · 2022 49% · 2023 29% — 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
29% of LEAP GLOBAL MISSIONS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% 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
70% of LEAP GLOBAL MISSIONS'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 $344k that is directly attributable, 60% of it comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $787k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
LEAP GLOBAL MISSIONS is better cushioned than half of the 1,608 international nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,608 international nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like LEAP GLOBAL MISSIONS
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.
Where the money goes
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
87%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LEAP GLOBAL MISSIONS: 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 LEAP GLOBAL MISSIONS?
- LEAP GLOBAL MISSIONS (Texas) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,131,432 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($307,650). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 70% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does LEAP GLOBAL MISSIONS have?
- IRS filings report 25 organizations giving $1,131,432 in grants to LEAP GLOBAL MISSIONS, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LEAP GLOBAL MISSIONS?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $307,650 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LEAP GLOBAL MISSIONS 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 25 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing