California · Nonprofit
Mission Support Network
Mission Support Network (California) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $42,639 to it, the largest being GS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC ($15,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 76% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $176k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $43k
- Net assets
- $-26306
What Mission Support Network does
Mission
MSN primarily supports missionaries in Africa and the U.S. We support child education & school construction in Africa. We provide African famine relief. We support those who plant new churches domestically and abroad. We equip church leaders around the world with training for ministry, and we support orphans, widows, survivors, and indigents.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
As a primarily mission organization, MSN helped 19 missionaries this year fulfill their calling to train, evangelize, reach those trapped in poverty, and assist refugees in war-torn countries. MSN provides prayer, counseling, training, and housing costs. Some of our missionaries live and serve in extraordinary circumstances. For example, this year one of our missionaries provided food, clothing, and other assistance to refugees in a drought-striken area of Kenya. Two others offered counseling and training for women and helped raise additional funds to support the poor. Another missionary assisted in establishing a widows support program. Others developed devotional materials to equip and encourage women in their faith. Our supported missionaries do incredible things in the U.S. and abroad because of our support.
$131,923 spentof which $59,605 as grants71% of program spendingIn Kenya, Africa, MSNs primary focus is outreach, caring for pastors/leaders and their families, and assisting at-risk children. This year we provided housing, food, and equipment for many poor rural pastors. We provided resources, including school supplies and equipment, fuel, and transportation for 112 house churches. In Eldoret, Kenya, we provided education assistance for orphans and established a widows program near the Ugandan border. Many of these women have been widowed due to AIDS. We teach them practical life skills that will empower them to earn a living and care for their children.
$25,709 spentof which $11,616 as grants14% of program spendingMSN appreciates the mission work of other non-profits and churches. We support their efforts when they align with the vision of MSN, especially ministries which are focused on church planting, discipleship, and providing for at-risk children, in the U.S. and abroad, who are underserved due to poverty.
$27,068 spentof which $12,230 as grants15% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $184,700.
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 $23k to $8k (−64%).
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.
100% of Mission Support Network’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $3k → $15k.
4 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 76% 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 Support Network’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 Support Network leans on a few funders — its largest provides 35% of grant income and the top three 76%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
76% 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 Support Network.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 95% · 2022 100% · 2023 50% — 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.
Where its funders are
76% of Mission Support Network'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 $10k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $33k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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 Support Network's revenue fell 24% between 2017 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,816 religion nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like Mission Support Network
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
96% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
69%
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 Support Network: 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 Support Network?
- Mission Support Network (California) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $42,639 to it, the largest being GS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC ($15,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 76% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Mission Support Network have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $42,639 in grants to Mission Support Network, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Mission Support Network?
- GS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC is the largest funder on record, with $15,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Mission Support Network 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.
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 7 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