Texas · Nonprofit
Lift Them Up International
Lift Them Up International (Texas) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,401 to it, the largest being The Keith Busse Automotive and Classic Art Foundat ($10,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $248k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $10k
- Net assets
- $8k
What Lift Them Up International does
Mission
Lift Them Up International LTU is a faith-based nonprofit located in Midland TX. We work to alleviate the effects of post-genocidal poverty through educational sponsorships and charitable giving. On top of that we promote dignity among those whom we serve and ultimately- a path to self- sufficiency and replication. We partner with reputable local churches and nonprofits who provide boots on the ground to support our operations and to be the hands and feet of Jesus in our target communities. We are currently partnering with churches and nonprofits in Rwanda Iraq Pakistan and Albania. We believe that God is lifting up the nation of Rwanda to be a blessing and an example of success to other countries that have experienced genocide. Our heart is for orphans and widows but we serve refugees and other vulnerable people too.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Child Sponsorship Program- Rwanda. We connected orphans and other vulnerable children in our partner churches in Rwanda with US donors to help meet the spiritual and developmental need of the kids through enrollment in public schools weekly hot meals and tutoring church and community involvement and food and hygeine materials sent home with the children monthly. Also following innitial enrollment we purchased beds blankets wash tubs mosquito nets and Bibles for all of the Sponsored Children. Then at Christmas time we gave donors the opportunity to bless their children with either goats pigs or cows and seeds for planting a garden to help them to become more self-sustainable.
$101,789 spent45% of program spendingOther programs including School & Orphanage- Pakistan. Together with our US ministry partners we sent funds for purchasing land and building a building that is both a school for 150 children and a full-time orphan home for 24 children. Through Child Sponsorships of the orphan children and other generous giving we have been able to keep the home open and all of the childrens phycial needs met- including doctor bills buying a water buffalo for fresh milk new clothes and shoes school supplies furnature a professional grade RO system for the water a playground solar panels and whatever else they need to keep the children strong and healthy. The school employs 16 teachers and staff and the home employs 4 full-time staff. The school operates year-round and all of the orphan children attend it. Boys and girls of all religions are accepted at the school. Nutrition Program: Pakistan. This program fundraises to provide daily food for the children at the orphan home as well as for special event meals like Resurrection Day and Christmas. This program is also used to facilitate Nutrition Programs in the brick slave villages where our partner church ministers to the Christians there.
$123,010 spent55% of program spendingNot described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $224,799.
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. 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 2019 to 2020, from $3k to $12k (+271%).
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 Lift Them Up International’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 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.
Chief executive
Kendra Willard
Executive Director
Board chair
Reuben Willard
Board President
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $67 → $105.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 4% 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 Lift Them Up International’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
Lift Them Up International leans on a few funders — its largest provides 96% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
Lift Them Up International draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Texas, across 1 state in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $401 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
Lift Them Up International has grown faster than three-quarters of the 2,468 international nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,468 international nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Lift Them Up International
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
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
91%
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 Lift Them Up International: 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 Lift Them Up International?
- Lift Them Up International (Texas) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,401 to it, the largest being The Keith Busse Automotive and Classic Art Foundat ($10,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Lift Them Up International have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $10,401 in grants to Lift Them Up International, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Lift Them Up International?
- The Keith Busse Automotive and Classic Art Foundat is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Lift Them Up International 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 2 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