Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
MOVE A MOUNTAIN MISSIONS
MOVE A MOUNTAIN MISSIONS (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,257,294 to it, the largest being CDL FAMILY FOUNDATION ($472,650). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $938k
- Funders on record
- 21
- Grants received
- $1.3M
- Net assets
- $776k
What Move a Mountain Missions does
Mission
Move A Mountain Missions is a non-profit organization rooted in the Catholic faith and inspired by the healing and caring ministry of Jesus. It is our goal to provide genuine encounters with Christ through service to the most vulnerable. We seek to achieve this by organizing mission trips to Mustard Seed Communities, a home for abandoned children with disabilities and raising funds for specific projects to benefit the residents at Mustard Seed. We also seek to bring a missionary charism of care for the most vulnerable, especially those with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) to Pittsburgh. We accomplish this primarily through Brother Andre's Cafe, a coffee shop that employs adults with IDD.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2024 return the organization reported a significant change in how it conducts a program.
At the heart of the organization is our mission trips to Mustard Seed Communities, a home for abandoned children with disabilities in Jamaica. Mustard Seed provides loving and life-long care for over 600 residents. These trips have proven to be transformational for the high school and college students who have attended. Our mission team members realized very quickly that while they went to Jamaica to serve the residents at Mustard Seed, it was the residents who were helping us. Their gratitude and infectious joy was transforming our hearts and teaching us how to love. In addition to organizing these mission trips, we also sought to provide opportunities for our participants to serve the most vulnerable in Pittsburgh.
$194,173 spentof which $98,003 as grants31% of program spendingAnother goal is to bring back a missionary charism of care for the most vulnerable to Pittsburgh and to help create a culture that recognizes the dignity of all people, in particular people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD). They are a tremendous blessing for our community. We have realized this goal through the formation of Brother Andre's Cafe, a coffee shop that employs adults with IDD. While those with disabilities are not being abandoned in the streets of Pittsburgh like they were in Kingston, many persons with IDD do not feel welcomed into the broader community and have a difficult time finding their niche in society. The purpose of Brother Andre's is to provide meaningful employment for adults with IDD and to create an avenue for them to share their love and joy with the world. The cafe also seeks to be a place of Catholic community, especially for the broader IDD community through enrichment and educational events. In 2022 we increased to 13 employees with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities. We launched an Occupational Therapy Vocational Program to help our employees gain confidence and grow in independence in the workplace. In October of 2023…
$426,688 spent$10,023 earned by the program69% of program spendingIn addition to coordinating annual mission trips to Mustard Seed Communities and other similar charitable organizations, Move a Mountain Missions exists to help raise awareness of the needs of people in developing nations, in particular the needs of those who are mentally and/or physically challenged. To accomplish this goal, the Organization will support projects being undertaken by other established US based charitable organizations who share our common vision of caring for the most vulnerable.
$7,221 earned by the program
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $620,861.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 $523k to $1.2M (+132%).
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.
64% of MOVE A MOUNTAIN MISSIONS’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. 3 of the last 7 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.
Chief executive
Daniel Gallagher
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 10 funders, grant income rose $1k → $263k.
6 of 21 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 46% 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 MOVE A MOUNTAIN MISSIONS’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
MOVE A MOUNTAIN MISSIONS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 80%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
48% 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 MOVE A MOUNTAIN MISSIONS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 98% · 2020 71% · 2021 97% · 2022 33% · 2023 75% — 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
50% of MOVE A MOUNTAIN MISSIONS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 52% 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
93% of MOVE A MOUNTAIN MISSIONS's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $575k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
MOVE A MOUNTAIN MISSIONS is better cushioned than half of the 12,843 religion nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,843 religion nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like MOVE A MOUNTAIN MISSIONS
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.
Where the money goes
65% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
70%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds MOVE A MOUNTAIN MISSIONS?
- MOVE A MOUNTAIN MISSIONS (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,257,294 to it, the largest being CDL FAMILY FOUNDATION ($472,650). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MOVE A MOUNTAIN MISSIONS have?
- IRS filings report 21 organizations giving $1,257,294 in grants to MOVE A MOUNTAIN MISSIONS, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MOVE A MOUNTAIN MISSIONS?
- CDL FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $472,650 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MOVE A MOUNTAIN MISSIONS 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2018–2024), and the filings of 21 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