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MACLELLAN CENTER FOR GLOBAL CHRISTIAN ED

MACLELLAN CENTER FOR GLOBAL CHRISTIAN ED (Tennessee) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,184,073 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($5,729,098). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 89% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$2.6M
Funders on record
11
Grants received
$10M
Net assets
$564k
7/11 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 89%
01What it does

What Maclellan Center for Global Christian Ed does

Mission

To use a broad-base, worldwide movement that results in radical, life transforming generosity amongst christians.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Generosity path is engaged in activities designed to impact a broad-base, worldwide movement that results in radical, life transforming generosity amongst christians.

    $2,129,542 spentof which $75,000 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,129,542.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($1.2M) Expenses 100 ($1.0M) Net assets 100 ($140k)2019 Revenue 131 ($1.6M) Expenses 159 ($1.7M) Net assets 27 ($38k)2020 Revenue 161 ($1.9M) Expenses 142 ($1.5M) Net assets 330 ($462k)2021 Revenue 119 ($1.4M) Expenses 156 ($1.6M) Net assets 184 ($258k)2022 Revenue 190 ($2.2M) Expenses 174 ($1.8M) Net assets 492 ($689k)2023 Revenue 182 ($2.2M) Expenses 220 ($2.3M) Net assets 387 ($542k)2024 Revenue 223 ($2.6M) Expenses 251 ($2.6M) Net assets 402 ($564k)
2018201920202021202220232024
Revenue (223)Expenses (251)Net assets (402)Peer revenue range

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 $41k to $478k (+1078%).

$165k
$41k
$478k
$312k
$730k
$590k
$592k
2018201920202021202220232024
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

99% of MACLELLAN CENTER FOR GLOBAL CHRISTIAN ED’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (90% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 2,735 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

$140k
’18
−$102k
’19
$424k
’20
−$221k
’21
$430k
’22
−$147k
’23
$22k
’24
2.7
months of
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

Emanual Bistrian

Executive director

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

2018201920202021202220232024
Listed5676546
Joined·+1+1+2+1+0+2
No longer listed·003210
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $29k → $1.7M.

6 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 89% 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 MACLELLAN CENTER FOR GLOBAL CHRISTIAN ED’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

MACLELLAN CENTER FOR GLOBAL CHRISTIAN ED leans on a few funders — its largest provides 56% of grant income and the top three 85%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

89% 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 MACLELLAN CENTER FOR GLOBAL CHRISTIAN ED.

56%
largest funder
85%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 63% · 2020 62% · 2021 63% · 2022 73% · 2023 77% — 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

60% of MACLELLAN CENTER FOR GLOBAL CHRISTIAN ED's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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

89% of MACLELLAN CENTER FOR GLOBAL CHRISTIAN ED'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 $1.1M that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Tennessee, across 5 states.

WA
IL
DE
GA
FL

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

’20
’21
’22
’23
Tennessee out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $9.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

MACLELLAN CENTER FOR GLOBAL CHRISTIAN ED has grown faster than half of the 2,394 religion nonprofits its size.

Operating margin1% · below the median
Months of reserve2.7mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)14% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,394 religion nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Organizations like MACLELLAN CENTER FOR GLOBAL CHRISTIAN ED

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 Tennessee

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

91% of spending goes to programs.

Program 91%Management 9%Fundraising 0%

Governance

6
board members
33%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

99%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

TN

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Generosity Path Cic · disregarded

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Questions and answers

Who funds MACLELLAN CENTER FOR GLOBAL CHRISTIAN ED?
MACLELLAN CENTER FOR GLOBAL CHRISTIAN ED (Tennessee) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,184,073 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($5,729,098). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 89% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does MACLELLAN CENTER FOR GLOBAL CHRISTIAN ED have?
IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $10,184,073 in grants to MACLELLAN CENTER FOR GLOBAL CHRISTIAN ED, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of MACLELLAN CENTER FOR GLOBAL CHRISTIAN ED?
NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC is the largest funder on record, with $5,729,098 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like MACLELLAN CENTER FOR GLOBAL CHRISTIAN ED find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Tennessee. 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 2018–2024), and the filings of 11 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