Georgia · Nonprofit
Living on the Edge Ministries Inc
Living on the Edge Ministries Inc (Georgia) receives grants from 58 organizations whose IRS filings report $18,588,537 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($7,464,191). 42 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 83% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $13M
- Funders on record
- 58
- Grants received
- $19M
- Net assets
- $9.0M
What Living on the Edge Ministries Inc does
Mission
Living on the Edge (LOTE) is a media discipleship ministry. LOTE helps people meet with God through His Word and prayer to enjoy His presence, receive His directions, and follow His Will; encourages people to personally connect in safe relationships that provide love, support, transparency, challenge and accountability; and challenges people to "live out" Jesus' love for others through acts of service and sacrifice at home, work, play and church.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
LOTE proclaimed the Good News of Jesus Christ through the internet, radio, and television, and through the distribution of DVDs, CDs, books, and other various publications. Practical teaching: Over 1 million people a week watch, listen, or stream the biblical teaching of LOTE. Chip is heard on 900 radio outlets throughout the U.S. and LOTE TV is broadcast on NRB TV and numerous overseas outlets. LOTE's largest growth by far is in digital listeners, with an average of 24,000 daily users listening online via the Web and podcasts. Life changing tools: The biblical, life changing resources created by LOTE equip everyday believers to live out their faith in truly transformational ways. To date, over 1.4 million people have experienced a LOTE group study. All resources are aimed at helping people move from being spiritual spectators to actively engaging their faith every day. Spiritual training: With an online community of just over 2 million people, LivingontheEdge.org delivers biblical truth and discipleship resources that help people grow in their relationship with God and each other. LOTE's free online resources are easy to find and share, and help people apply God's truth to their…
$10,463,115 spent$235,497 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $10,463,115.
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 $7.7M to $11M (+42%).
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: 2021 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of Living on the Edge Ministries Inc’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (84% 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 23 funders to 30 funders, grant income rose $544k → $3.6M.
20 of 58 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 83% 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 Living on the Edge Ministries Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 58 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
Living on the Edge Ministries Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 65%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
83% 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 Living on the Edge Ministries Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 35% · 2018 43% · 2019 50% · 2020 48% · 2021 50% · 2022 50% · 2023 31% — 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
48% of Living on the Edge Ministries Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 72% 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
83% of Living on the Edge Ministries Inc'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 $3.1M that is directly attributable, 85% of it comes from funders outside Georgia, across 17 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $15M arriving through sponsors registered in 16 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
Living on the Edge Ministries Inc is better cushioned than half of the 249 religion nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 249 religion nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Organizations like Living on the Edge Ministries Inc
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 Georgia
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
96%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 13 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Living on the Edge Ministries Inc: 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 Living on the Edge Ministries Inc?
- Living on the Edge Ministries Inc (Georgia) receives grants from 58 organizations whose IRS filings report $18,588,537 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($7,464,191). 42 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 83% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Living on the Edge Ministries Inc have?
- IRS filings report 58 organizations giving $18,588,537 in grants to Living on the Edge Ministries Inc, 42 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Living on the Edge Ministries Inc?
- NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC is the largest funder on record, with $7,464,191 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Living on the Edge Ministries Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Georgia. 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 58 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