California · Nonprofit
MAVEN
MAVEN (California) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $154,538 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($63,086). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 63% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $650k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $155k
- Net assets
- $-31723
What Maven does
Mission
The specific purpose of this organization is to teach and train students and those who teach and train students to help students know truth, pursue goodness and create beauty, through developing a team of speakers, virtual training, live conferences and seminars, and immersive mission trips.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
There is a tremendous need to communicate the truth to todays students face-to-face, in a language they can actually understand. MAVEN is meeting that need through live speaking events, as well as developing our own conferences for students and adults. The objective of each Live Event is to equip students, parents and youth leaders with the truth of Christ in relevant and engaging ways, so they can navigate the challenges of culture. Service accomplishments in this area in the past fiscal year include: -Brett and Erin Kunkle spoke to youth and parents in 14 different states across the U.S. including: CA, CO, GA, NC, NY, TX, VA, LA, AL, OK, OH, WA, IL and IN. -Completed our seventh annual MAVEN adult conference in Orange County, CA, in February 2025, with approximately 430 people in attendance and an additional audience watching via livestream. -Completed third annual conference in Frisco, TX with approximately 350 in attendance and an additional audience via livestream.
$226,551 spent$163,070 earned by the program48% of program spendingMAVEN has developed a unique approach to mission trips, creating a one-of-a-kind training experience that immerses students in real-life apologetics, theology, worldview and evangelism. We custom-build interactive trips to Berkeley, California, to Salt Lake City, Utah, and in other U.S. locations. These immersive experiences are utterly unique...and life-changing. The objective of each Immersive Experience is to provide students with real life experiences that allow them to engage the Christian worldview at much deeper and yet very practical levels. Service accomplishments in this area in the past fiscal year include: -Lead 10 IE trips with youth groups and Christian schools from across the US -Led our sixth annual Biblical IE with approx. 125 gap year students and staff from the Impact 360 Institute.
$241,768 spent$152,429 earned by the program51% of program spendingMAVEN hosts a website and holds social media accounts that allow us to harness the vast array of technological tools to reach the next generation and equip adults who are training and discipling them, as well. Service accomplishments in this area in the past fiscal year include: -We recorded and produced weekly parenting podcasts. These are posted on our website, podcast app and our YouTube channel. -We utilized YouTube, FaceBook, Twitter, Instagram and Tik Tok to post MAVEN content. -We recorded our 200th eqisode of the MAVEN Parent Podcast in Jan 2024. -We released an online video course entitled, Gods Design for Sexuality and Marriage, which includes a six video session and 53-page workbook, which is availble through our website.
$1,982 spent$1,882 earned by the program0% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $470,301.
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 2023 to 2024, from $156k to $92k (−41%).
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: 2022 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
52% of MAVEN’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $10k → $28k.
4 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 63% 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 MAVEN’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
MAVEN leans on a few funders — its largest provides 41% of grant income and the top three 86%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
100% 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 MAVEN.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 62% · 2023 49% — 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.
Where its funders are
63% of MAVEN'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 $57k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from California funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $98k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
MAVEN has grown faster than half of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding MAVEN receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1k on record.
- REFUNDS - GENERAL $1k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like MAVEN
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
66% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 MAVEN: 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 MAVEN?
- MAVEN (California) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $154,538 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($63,086). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 63% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does MAVEN have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $154,538 in grants to MAVEN, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MAVEN?
- NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC is the largest funder on record, with $63,086 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MAVEN find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 6 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