Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
MISSION HELPS
MISSION HELPS (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $50,735 to it, the largest being THE ROBB AND VEDA KAUFMAN HOLINESS ADVANCEMENT FOUNDATION ($35,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2026
- $147k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $51k
- Net assets
- $383k
What Mission Helps does
Mission
To provide spiritual support and assistance to evangelical missions and their missionaries, through volunteers and material resources which are donated or furnished at cost.
As stated on its FY2026 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Ambassador Program. Bulletins that highlight missions and present the needs of missions and missionaries were sent twice each month to twenty-six Ambassador Program church representatives. Participating churches respond to mission and missionary needs with prayer support, material goods, and volunteers.
$422 spent0% of program spendingConstruction Services Ministry. Provides construction volunteer services, advice, and guidance for missions upon request.
$0 spent0% of program spendingGeneral Services. Coordinates and provides various short-term volunteer skills, resources, and produces ministry packages that are sent to missionaries. Shipped ninety-eight (98) media packages with sermon and music USBs and inspiring printed materials. An accordion donated for a mission in Bolivia was received for restoration. Maintained an audio resource library and a Kindle-based missions resource library for missionaries.
$1,016 spent1% of program spendingCollege Mission Student Scholarship Program. Funds for this purpose are sent to Bible Colleges who select the recipients from among their students preparing for a career in missions. Six students attending five Bible Colleges received scholarships providing financial assistance toward their college tuition.
$5,000 spent5% of program spendingRope Holders and Crisis Prayer Ministry. This ministry network provides prayer support for forty-four evangelical missions and their missionaries through more than seventeen hundred enlisted prayer volunteers. Prayer requests received from missionaries were printed in a prayer publication and mailed monthly to the prayer volunteers on the network. Urgent, crises requests were communicated via e-mail to an additional 410 volunteer participants of the Crisis Prayer Network.
$11,513 spent12% of program spendingTech Services Ministry. Offers computers, tech equipment - either loaned or at cost, and technical support to evangelical missions and their missionaries. During the period loaner digital projectors, projector stands, screens, GPS units, wireless speakers, and Kindle readers were provided to fifteen missionaries and/or families. Purchased and setup one new laptop computer for a missionary. The Tech Services team responded to various missionary inquiries for technical support and guidance.
$756 spent1% of program spendingVehicle and Auto Services Ministry. Provides vehicles, vehicle pickup and return overnight lodging, volunteer mechanics, and auto services to evangelical missions and their missionaries. Thirteen missionary families and five individual missionaries used eight Mission Helps vans on twenty-two different occasions for their transportation needs while traveling in the USA. Volunteer drivers provided pickup and drop-off service at the Harrisburg airport. Ten auto service sites located throughout the USA are available to provide service or repairs for mission vehicles.
$73,915 spent79% of program spendingLodging Services. This network of homes and rest facilities offers missionaries overnight lodging or facilities for short-term rest in twenty-eight states and one province. Lodging Directories listing sixty-four locations were reprinted and distributed to missionaries for their use while traveling in the USA and representing their mission ministries.
$499 spent1% of program spendingMedical Services. Provides medical services for missionaries that includes a doctor, nurse practitioner, chiropractor, nurses, and dentists. During the period the medical and dental needs of missionaries were serviced by various qualified medical professionals on the network.
$0 spent0% of program spendingCounseling Services. Counseling Services offers trained professional counselors who make their services available without charge to the missions and their missionaries served by Mission Helps.
$61 spent0% of program spending
The 10 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $93,182.
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 2019 to 2020, from $103k to $172k (+67%).
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.
88% of MISSION HELPS’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 10 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $7k → $82.
2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 31% 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 HELPS’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
MISSION HELPS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 69% 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
31% 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 HELPS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 99% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
MISSION HELPS draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Pennsylvania, across 1 state in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $16k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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 HELPS runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 52 international nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 52 international nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2026
Organizations like MISSION HELPS
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 Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
87%
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 MISSION HELPS: 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 HELPS?
- MISSION HELPS (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $50,735 to it, the largest being THE ROBB AND VEDA KAUFMAN HOLINESS ADVANCEMENT FOUNDATION ($35,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MISSION HELPS have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $50,735 in grants to MISSION HELPS, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MISSION HELPS?
- THE ROBB AND VEDA KAUFMAN HOLINESS ADVANCEMENT FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $35,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MISSION HELPS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 FY2026 (financials across 2017–2026), and the filings of 3 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