Minnesota · Nonprofit
LIFEGATE WORLDWIDE
LIFEGATE WORLDWIDE (Minnesota) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $41,500 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($41,500). 1 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
- $113k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $42k
- Net assets
- $83k
What Lifegate Worldwide does
Mission
Lifegate Worldwide is devoted to the effective advance of the gospel of jesus christ by equipping and mobilizing biblically qualified pastors to plant strong, local churches in their own countries.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Support to program activities in russia, ukraine, slovakia and phillipines. Specifically - lifegate operations are located in stillwater, mn. It is from this location that they maintain connections between the partners. Monthly progress reports and prayer requests, written by the pastors themselves, assist churches, cell groups and individuals. These reports provide a front row seat in the church planting journey. Lifegate began hosting annual breakfasts for stateside partners. Each breakfast features national pastors representing lifegate's church-planting ministries in their own countries. The breakfasts are educational and intended to increase understanding of the need for and efficacy of the ministries lifegate represents.
$49,514 spentof which $28,518 as grants78% of program spendingIn 2023 and 2024, lifegate solidified its current works in russia, expanding into the growing suburb of new moscow. Other efforts included heading a church-planting conference in the czech republic, mobilizing and supporting a church-planting team in neighboring presov, slovakia, and fully supporting a ukrainian pastor who lives and serves his people in the bombed-out village of izyum bordering russia.
$14,327 spentof which $8,252 as grants22% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $63,841.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 $15k to $74k (+382%).
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 LIFEGATE WORLDWIDE’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. 2 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Scott Ivester
Executive director
Board chair
Mark Duval
Board chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $3k → $12k.
1 of 1 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 LIFEGATE WORLDWIDE’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.
Where its funders are
100% of LIFEGATE WORLDWIDE'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. $42k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
LIFEGATE WORLDWIDE runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters 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 LIFEGATE WORLDWIDE
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 Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
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 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LIFEGATE WORLDWIDE: 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 LIFEGATE WORLDWIDE?
- LIFEGATE WORLDWIDE (Minnesota) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $41,500 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($41,500). 1 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 LIFEGATE WORLDWIDE have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $41,500 in grants to LIFEGATE WORLDWIDE, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LIFEGATE WORLDWIDE?
- NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC is the largest funder on record, with $41,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LIFEGATE WORLDWIDE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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 2019–2024), and the filings of 1 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