Tennessee · Nonprofit
MISSION CHURCH
MISSION CHURCH (Tennessee) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $465,812 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,862,592). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
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.
- Christian Community Foundation Ofshared funderslocal
- Indianapolis Center for Congregations Incportfolio match
- The Catholic Foundation of North Georgiaportfolio match
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of MISSION CHURCH’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 9 of 10 funders by total. Association, not causation.
How concentrated its funding is
MISSION CHURCH leans on a few funders — its largest provides 49% of grant income and the top three 75%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration.
How long its funders stay
40% of MISSION CHURCH's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 50% 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
MISSION CHURCH draws 92% of its grant income from funders outside Tennessee, across 8 states in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing.
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. Your 10 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Christian Community Foundation Ofshared funderslocalTN · backs 130 organizations that share your funders · funds 277 organizations near you
- Indianapolis Center for Congregations Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Catholic Foundation of North Georgiaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Steer Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Biel Family Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Global Compassion Servicesportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Oldham Little Church Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Four1 Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Jonathan and David Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Robinson Family Charitable Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Dcm Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Sterk Family Marantha Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
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 MISSION CHURCH
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 Tennessee
Nationally
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MISSION CHURCH: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds MISSION CHURCH?
- MISSION CHURCH (Tennessee) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $465,812 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,862,592). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MISSION CHURCH have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $465,812 in grants to MISSION CHURCH, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MISSION CHURCH?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $1,862,592 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MISSION CHURCH 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 FY2025, and the filings of 10funders 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. What this page cannot tell you · view filing