Tennessee · Nonprofit
MISSIONS DEVELOPMENT INTERNATIONAL
MISSIONS DEVELOPMENT INTERNATIONAL (Tennessee) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $337,564 to it, the largest being THE JUDITH E & JOSEPH C COOK JR FOUNDATION INC ($80,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 57% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $409k
- Funders on record
- 18
- Grants received
- $338k
- Net assets
- $383k
What Missions Development International does
Mission
MDI provides ministry leaders with high-caliber mentoring and innovative content to unleash their God-given potential.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Mentoring & consulting - MDI provides mentoring and consulting services at no charge to leaders of Christian ministries, churches, missionaries and other programs both domestically and internationally. By pouring into leaders in their established ministries, MDI is able to equip these leaders to achieve God's calling on their lives. Investing in these leaders and their ministries results in sustained ministry outreach and humanitarian aid in parts of the world that desperately need it. MDI is empowering leaders to impact the world.
$244,126 spent81% of program spendingFiscal sponsorships - MDI works with many ministry leaders all over the world, many of whom are international NGO's, but are not registered with the internal revenue service. We periodically receive requests from ministry leaders to utilize MDI's United States-based tax-exempt status to serve as a financial conduit, or fiscal sponsor, for a project, missionary, new initiative or other ministry venture that closely aligns with MDI's mission. We see this as an opportunity to partner with leaders to strengthen ministry.
$57,095 spentof which $57,095 as grants19% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $301,221.
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 2022 to 2023, from $395k to $275k (−30%).
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: 2020 2% · 2022 12% · 2024 0% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of MISSIONS DEVELOPMENT INTERNATIONAL’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as 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.
Board chair
Mark Stout
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $4k → $67k.
10 of 18 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 57% 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 MISSIONS DEVELOPMENT INTERNATIONAL’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
MISSIONS DEVELOPMENT INTERNATIONAL has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 24% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
57% 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 MISSIONS DEVELOPMENT INTERNATIONAL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 93% · 2019 48% · 2020 37% · 2021 39% · 2022 29% · 2023 31% — 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
38% of MISSIONS DEVELOPMENT INTERNATIONAL's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 44% 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
57% of MISSIONS DEVELOPMENT INTERNATIONAL'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 $144k that is directly attributable, 94% of it comes from Tennessee funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $193k arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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
MISSIONS DEVELOPMENT INTERNATIONAL holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 2,468 international nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,468 international nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like MISSIONS DEVELOPMENT INTERNATIONAL
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
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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 MISSIONS DEVELOPMENT INTERNATIONAL: 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 MISSIONS DEVELOPMENT INTERNATIONAL?
- MISSIONS DEVELOPMENT INTERNATIONAL (Tennessee) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $337,564 to it, the largest being THE JUDITH E & JOSEPH C COOK JR FOUNDATION INC ($80,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 57% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does MISSIONS DEVELOPMENT INTERNATIONAL have?
- IRS filings report 18 organizations giving $337,564 in grants to MISSIONS DEVELOPMENT INTERNATIONAL, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MISSIONS DEVELOPMENT INTERNATIONAL?
- THE JUDITH E & JOSEPH C COOK JR FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $80,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MISSIONS DEVELOPMENT INTERNATIONAL 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.
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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 18 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