California · Nonprofit
MEDICAL AMBASSADORS INTERNATIONAL
MEDICAL AMBASSADORS INTERNATIONAL (California) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,281,108 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($4,795,563). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 91% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $3.6M
- Funders on record
- 26
- Grants received
- $6.3M
- Net assets
- $2.3M
What Medical Ambassadors International does
Mission
Walking with vulnerable communities to restore health, livelihoods, relationships, and hope through faith-centered, locally owned solutions.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
As in the previous years, at Medical Ambassadors International (MAI) we continue to strive to improve quality, efficiency, and professionalism at all levels. We continue to persevere relentlessly with our ongoing work and in our efforts to grow and expand our CHE (Community Health Evangelism) program. We are currently in a total of 3,007 communities spread across 76 countries around word impacting a total population of 3.4 million people. Our efforts to grow the second line leadership in South Asia, the Caribbean, MENA (Middle East North Africa), and Southeast Asia are progressing well. Through the Capital Campaign that we launched in 2022, we plan to grow WIDER and STRONGER. This entails expanding into new regions and growing in existing ones. This growth work is progressing very well. We also continue to make the organization stronger by building the second line of leadership and improving capacity for better communications in the field through upgraded technology. The technical division is doing well, and our four new specialized programs and ongoing programs are doing well. These are: New special programs: Community Relief response, Trafficking prevention, the Medical…
$2,191,037 spent$5,022 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,191,037.
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 2023 to 2024, from $2.2M to $2.5M (+15%).
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.
99% of MEDICAL AMBASSADORS INTERNATIONAL’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (97% 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 5 funders to 13 funders, grant income rose $518k → $837k.
14 of 26 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 91% 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 MEDICAL AMBASSADORS 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
MEDICAL AMBASSADORS INTERNATIONAL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 76% 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
95% 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 MEDICAL AMBASSADORS INTERNATIONAL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 94% · 2018 82% · 2019 65% · 2020 93% · 2021 85% · 2022 77% · 2023 71% — 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
46% of MEDICAL AMBASSADORS INTERNATIONAL's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% 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
91% of MEDICAL AMBASSADORS INTERNATIONAL'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 $575k that is directly attributable, 97% of it comes from funders outside California, across 12 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5.7M arriving through sponsors registered in 12 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
MEDICAL AMBASSADORS INTERNATIONAL runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 1,607 international nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,607 international nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like MEDICAL AMBASSADORS 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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
72% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
94%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 12 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MEDICAL AMBASSADORS 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 MEDICAL AMBASSADORS INTERNATIONAL?
- MEDICAL AMBASSADORS INTERNATIONAL (California) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,281,108 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($4,795,563). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 91% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does MEDICAL AMBASSADORS INTERNATIONAL have?
- IRS filings report 26 organizations giving $6,281,108 in grants to MEDICAL AMBASSADORS INTERNATIONAL, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MEDICAL AMBASSADORS INTERNATIONAL?
- NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC is the largest funder on record, with $4,795,563 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MEDICAL AMBASSADORS INTERNATIONAL 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 26 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