Tennessee · Nonprofit
MISSION EURASIA
MISSION EURASIA (Tennessee) receives grants from 74 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,536,412 to it, the largest being ARTHUR S DEMOSS FOUNDATION ($2,970,000). 41 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $13M
- Funders on record
- 74
- Grants received
- $16M
- Net assets
- $9.1M
What Mission Eurasia does
Mission
To train, equip, mobilize christian leadership throughout eurasia to engage in indigenous evangelism, church-planting, holistic ministries, and church growth by developing creative, strategic ministries and by facilitating partnerships between nationals and western christians.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Caring hands initiative (formerly "I care" refugee assistance program)/gik - Mission Eurasia distributes humanitarian aid (gik) in ukraine and throughout eurasia to provide holistic care for those in need. Each year, our school without walls (sww) leaders, in partnership with local churches and volunteers, reach hundreds of thousands of people for christ by bringing them desperately needed clothing, food, wheelchairs, medicine, and other items. In 2025, through caring hands-ukraine (formerly icare-ukraine), we provided humanitarian aid for 105,200 displaced and refugees from ukraine through our refugee assistance centers in poland and moldova and our regional ministry hubs in ukraine. (continued on schedule o)in 2025, our sww leaders and other ministry volunteers distributed 105,690 gifts of hope-brightly colored boxes filled with sweets, toys, school and hygiene supplies, warm mittens or socks, and a children's bible or other christian literature, to needy children in eight countries of eurasia during the christmas season.
$7,039,209 spentof which $6,413,297 as grants64% of program spendingSchool without walls (sww)/next generation professional leaders initiative (ngpli) Mission Eurasia uses these flexible, non-formal leadership training programs to equip next generation christian leaders in eurasia and israel to transform their communities, workplaces, and nations for christ. More specifically, sww and ngpli provide next generation leaders and young professionals with biblical wisdom, leadership training, and practical, hands-on ministry experience. In 2024-2025, Mission Eurasia trained 1,286 young leaders from 14 countries in eurasia and israel through sww. In addition, sww training centers were opened in 20 new locations. (continued on schedule o)in 2024-2025, ngpli trained 12,990 young professionals, including medical professionals and trauma counselors, to provide physical assistance and trauma healing for the people of ukraine suffering from the war in their homeland.
$1,488,146 spentof which $1,326,963 as grants14% of program spendingPublishing - each year, Mission Eurasia prints and distributes a variety of specialized scripture pieces in russian, ukrainian, and other national languages for the people of eurasia. In 2024-2025, a total of 620,000 copies of scripture were printed and distributed, with 415,000 copies primarily to the victims of war from ukraine. Scripture versions included new testaments, my first bible, action bible new testament, jesus storybook bible, and gospels of john. In addition, we printed and distributed 119,000 copies of christian literature, including devotionals for children and teens. Finally, Mission Eurasia helped to cultivate a next generation of christian authors within eurasia through our national christian authors series. (continued on schedule o)through this program, we oversaw the publication and distribution of titles that enable young leaders in eurasia to present solutions to the challenges facing the evangelical church and society at large in their homeland. We also used these titles in our sww program, ngpli conferences, and pastoral training seminars. Some of these titles included: hope for you, god's stories, renew, generous lifestyle, and my destiny is with you.
$1,359,462 spentof which $496,930 as grants12% of program spendingGift of hope, summer bible camps, leadership development, church planting, unreached people groups. In 2024-2025 a total of 105,690 gifts of hope - brightly colored boxes filled with sweets, toys, school and hygiene supplies, warm mittens or socks, and a children's bible or other christian literature to needy children in six countries of eurasia during the christmas season.
$1,026,748 spentof which $935,524 as grants9% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $10,913,565.
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 2021 to 2022, from $4.1M to $8.9M (+117%).
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: 2021 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of MISSION EURASIA’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (84% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 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.
Board chair
Wayne Shepherd
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 15 funders to 28 funders, grant income rose $585k → $2.4M.
25 of 74 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 36% 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 MISSION EURASIA’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 74 funders by total. 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
MISSION EURASIA has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 19% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
43% 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 MISSION EURASIA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 26% · 2018 25% · 2019 39% · 2020 38% · 2021 47% · 2022 28% · 2023 44% — growing more concentrated.
“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
49% of MISSION EURASIA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% 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 EURASIA draws 87% of its grant income from funders outside Tennessee, across 18 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 18 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
MISSION EURASIA has grown faster than half of the 127 religion nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 127 religion nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like MISSION EURASIA
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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
90% 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 10 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MISSION EURASIA: 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 MISSION EURASIA?
- MISSION EURASIA (Tennessee) receives grants from 74 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,536,412 to it, the largest being ARTHUR S DEMOSS FOUNDATION ($2,970,000). 41 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MISSION EURASIA have?
- IRS filings report 74 organizations giving $15,536,412 in grants to MISSION EURASIA, 41 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MISSION EURASIA?
- ARTHUR S DEMOSS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,970,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MISSION EURASIA 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 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 74 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing