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MISSION WACO MISSION WORLD INC

MISSION WACO MISSION WORLD INC (Texas) receives grants from 58 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,980,520 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($1,112,183). 37 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$12M
Funders on record
58
Grants received
$7.0M
Net assets
$16M
37/58 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 21%
01What it does

What Mission Waco Mission World Inc does

Mission

1. Provide christian-based holistic, relationship-based programs that empower the poor and marginalized. 2. Mobilize middle-class americans to become more compassionately involved among the poor. 3. Seek ways to overcome the systemic issues of social injustice which oppress the poor and marginalized.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Mobilizing programs: seminars designed to raise participants awareness of poverty locally, in the united states and worldwide. High school, college students and other individuals attended these seminars entitled "poverty simulations". In addition, the organization sponsored trips to mexico, haiti and india. The purpose of these trips was to expose participants to cultural and religious situations. Volunteers from the community and churches of the waco area and across the united states help in all programs of mission waco. Internships are offered in a variety of disciplines. "the other side of waco" tour is offered as an introduction to poverty and development issues in waco.

    $721,702 spent$240,958 earned by the program
    18% of program spending
  2. Empowering programs: the organization serves the local community with 16 programs designed to reach out to the persons who are poor and marginalized, including children, youth and adults. Program areas include drug and alcohol residential treatment for men, homeless shelter for adult men/women, afterschool and mentoring program for at-risk youth and children, non-residential recovery services, walk-in center for homeless, legal clinic,health clinic, visual and performing arts, job readiness/job search classes urban reap (renewable energy & agricultural project. In haiti, mission waco supports a microcredit enterprise for women,economic development, schools, a clinic, and a well digging and clean water program.

    $1,954,810 spent$187,458 earned by the program
    50% of program spending
  3. Retail sales programs: the world cup cafe provides economic development for the organization's target neighborhood, job training for the food service industry and a gathering place for people of all economic and racial backgrounds.our fair trade market is a sales outlet for fair trade items that provide a livable wage for craftsmen from around the world. The clothesline resale shop sells women's name brand clothing to help raise funds to support the recovery program, utilizes volunteers, and distributes other clothing to low-income persons. Jubilee food market opened in 2016 to effectively end a food desert in our neighborhood.the colcord center provides retail space at market rates to add to economic development of the neighborhood.

    $1,272,015 spent$438,728 earned by the program
    32% of program spending
  4. Other program services

    $77,620 earned by the program

The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,948,527.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($4.4M) Expenses 100 ($3.0M) Net assets 100 ($5.6M)2018 Revenue 80 ($3.5M) Expenses 103 ($3.0M) Net assets 106 ($5.9M)2019 Revenue 74 ($3.3M) Expenses 108 ($3.2M) Net assets 110 ($6.1M)2020 Revenue 69 ($3.1M) Expenses 108 ($3.2M) Net assets 109 ($6.1M)2021 Revenue 106 ($4.7M) Expenses 134 ($4.0M) Net assets 123 ($6.8M)2022 Revenue 100 ($4.5M) Expenses 141 ($4.2M) Net assets 123 ($6.9M)2023 Revenue 149 ($6.6M) Expenses 152 ($4.5M) Net assets 164 ($9.1M)2024 Revenue 261 ($12M) Expenses 153 ($4.5M) Net assets 292 ($16M)
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Revenue (261)Expenses (153)Net assets (292)Peer revenue range

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 $9.5M to $17M (+75%).

$5.8M
$6.1M
$6.5M
$6.6M
$7.4M
$7.0M
$9.5M
$17M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
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2021
2022
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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 1% · 2018 1% · 2019 1% · 2020 5% · 2021 9% · 2022 20% · 2023 16% · 2024 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

91% of MISSION WACO MISSION WORLD INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (84% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 296 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$1.5M
’17
$480k
’18
$64k
’19
−$139k
’20
$732k
’21
$260k
’22
$2.1M
’23
$7.0M
’24
19
months of
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.

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Listed2020212314161413
Joined·+3+4+3+4+5+1+0
No longer listed·33113331
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 20 funders to 26 funders, grant income rose $266k → $954k.

17 of 58 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 42% 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 WACO MISSION WORLD INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 58 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 WACO MISSION WORLD INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 16% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left

56% 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 WACO MISSION WORLD INC.

16%
largest funder
36%
top three
~13
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 38% · 2018 36% · 2019 35% · 2020 29% · 2021 50% · 2022 22% · 2023 16% — 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.

How long its funders stay

65% of MISSION WACO MISSION WORLD INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

80% of MISSION WACO MISSION WORLD INC's grant income comes from Texas funders.

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In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 13 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

MISSION WACO MISSION WORLD INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 249 religion nonprofits its size.

Operating margin61% · top quartile
Months of reserve19.4mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)15% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 249 religion nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024

Government funding MISSION WACO MISSION WORLD INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $18.8M on record — $18.8M federal, $18 state.

Federal$18.8M
grants $18.8Mcontracts $0
Top agencies
  • Environmental Protection Agency$18.8M
State$18
Top programs
  • OTHER SPEC PAYMENTS-MEDICIAL SERVICES$18

Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

84% of spending goes to programs.

Program 84%Management 9%Fundraising 8%

Governance

12
board members
92%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

76%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds MISSION WACO MISSION WORLD INC?
MISSION WACO MISSION WORLD INC (Texas) receives grants from 58 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,980,520 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($1,112,183). 37 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does MISSION WACO MISSION WORLD INC have?
IRS filings report 58 organizations giving $6,980,520 in grants to MISSION WACO MISSION WORLD INC, 37 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of MISSION WACO MISSION WORLD INC?
DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,112,183 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like MISSION WACO MISSION WORLD INC find more funders?
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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 2017–2024), and the filings of 58 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