Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
MESSAGE USA
MESSAGE USA (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $163,875 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($143,875). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 88% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $180k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $164k
- Net assets
- $16k
What Message USA does
Mission
The message trust exists to passionately sharing the love of jesus christ in words and actions with the hardest-to-reach young people and communities.we are passionate about reaching young people - seeking to break the cycle of poverty, unemployment, gangsterism and crime. Our purpose is to raise up urban heros to become godly leaders in their families and communities.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Program
In 2024, the message trust made significant strides in its mission to share the gospel and support vulnerable communities across the uk and around the world. Creative mission teams, including respect me and no more knives, reached over 67,500 young people with engaging lessons and events, while the no more county lines pilot addressed wider issues of youth exploitation. The launch of nxt chaptr, a new mission band, enhanced schools outreach. Community transformation efforts saw the eden network expand in the uk and serve communities through practical support and evangelism. Over 61,000 families were supported by community grocery stores, with new stores opened. The proximity resource hub launched to equip urban missionaries.in prisons, the team engaged inmates over 8,200 times and saw 231 first-time commitments to jesus, with continuing support provided post-release through employment in enterprises like the mess caf and neal street espresso. The message enterprise centre hosted 126 training events, now operating fully under the message trust.globally, the message's advance network grew rapidly with over 26,000 groups in 99 nations, helping 170,000 christians grow in boldness to…
$160,270 spentof which $158,666 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $160,270.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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 $17k to $16k (−3%).
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.
94% of MESSAGE USA’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 88% 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 MESSAGE USA’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
MESSAGE USA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 88% 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
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 MESSAGE USA.
“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
88% of MESSAGE USA'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 $20k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 1 state.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $144k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
MESSAGE USA has grown faster than three-quarters of the 12,816 religion nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,816 religion nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like MESSAGE USA
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 Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 5 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MESSAGE USA: 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 MESSAGE USA?
- MESSAGE USA (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $163,875 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($143,875). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 88% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does MESSAGE USA have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $163,875 in grants to MESSAGE USA, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MESSAGE USA?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $143,875 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MESSAGE USA find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. 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 2023–2024), and the filings of 2 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