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LIVING WORD MINISTRIES INTL INC

LIVING WORD MINISTRIES INTL INC (Arizona) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $987,482 to it, the largest being The Rosser Foundation dba International Cooperating Ministries ($879,463). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$2.0M
Revenue FY2024
4
Funders on record
$987k
Grants received
$967k
Net assets
4/4 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 10%

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($1.7M) Expenses 100 ($1.5M) Net assets 100 ($933k)2018 Revenue 104 ($1.8M) Expenses 112 ($1.7M) Net assets 105 ($977k)2019 Revenue 104 ($1.8M) Expenses 108 ($1.6M) Net assets 118 ($1.1M)2020 Revenue 103 ($1.7M) Expenses 113 ($1.7M) Net assets 122 ($1.1M)2021 Revenue 118 ($2.0M) Expenses 133 ($2.0M) Net assets 116 ($1.1M)2022 Revenue 129 ($2.2M) Expenses 149 ($2.2M) Net assets 110 ($1.0M)2023 Revenue 111 ($1.9M) Expenses 128 ($1.9M) Net assets 104 ($973k)2024 Revenue 116 ($2.0M) Expenses 130 ($2.0M) Net assets 104 ($967k)
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Revenue (116)Expenses (130)Net assets (104)

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$183k
17
$56k
18
$126k
19
$34k
20
$10k
21
$57k
22
$49k
23
$15k
24
0.4
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $37k → $142k.

3 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)11% 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 WORD MINISTRIES INTL INC’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

LIVING WORD MINISTRIES INTL INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 89% 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

89%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 70% · 2019 100% · 2020 93% · 2021 72% · 2022 100% · 2023 79%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

LIVING WORD MINISTRIES INTL INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Arizona, across 1 state in all.

VA

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Arizona out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $108k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like LIVING WORD MINISTRIES INTL INC

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Arizona

Nationally

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

96% of spending goes to programs.

Program 96%Management 4%Fundraising 0%

Governance

5
board members
60%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

85%

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 LIVING WORD MINISTRIES INTL 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 WORD MINISTRIES INTL INC?
LIVING WORD MINISTRIES INTL INC (Arizona) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $987,482 to it, the largest being The Rosser Foundation dba International Cooperating Ministries ($879,463). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does LIVING WORD MINISTRIES INTL INC have?
IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $987,482 in grants to LIVING WORD MINISTRIES INTL INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of LIVING WORD MINISTRIES INTL INC?
The Rosser Foundation dba International Cooperating Ministries is the largest funder on record, with $879,463 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like LIVING WORD MINISTRIES INTL INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Arizona. 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 4funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing