Illinois · Nonprofit
MULTIPLICATION NETWORK MINISTRIES
MULTIPLICATION NETWORK MINISTRIES (Illinois) receives grants from 44 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,347,840 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($4,523,022). 31 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 65% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $6.4M
- Funders on record
- 44
- Grants received
- $9.3M
- Net assets
- $3.2M
What Multiplication Network Ministries does
Mission
To equip church leaders with tools and resources to strengthen and multiply healthy churches. MORE CHURCHES is a modular program for church planting in which leaders are challenged to plant new churches through a proven strategy. Practical skills biblical training mentoring and follow-up form this intensive action reflection model. STRONGER CHURCHES is a process to strengthen the local church. Diagnostic tools help assess church health leading to a healthy conversation and strategic planning.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Latin America -Training and resources are provided to a network of national leaders throughout the region who train congregations and individuals in church growth church health and church planting. We aim to provide this training and these resources to typically under-resourced areas to grow strong churches in towns and neighborhoods throughout Latin America even in the most remote areas. Strong and healthy churches are proven to affect positive changes in the lives of individuals and communities by sharing and applying the message of Gods work through Jesus Christ.
$1,447,880 spentof which $882,327 as grants29% of program spendingEast & South West Asia - Church planting and Scripture placement. This region is an area of growing ministry opportunity for MNM. During 2022 the organization continued to develop more ministry relationships and to build on its base. We have observed that passionate and committed East Asian church leaders who serve in under-resourced areas need training in evangelism and discipleship to establish and grow healthy churches. We provide both scriptures and the type of training needed to those leaders with limited access to these resources. In 2021 over 92,000 Bibles were provided to those who have limited access.
$1,008,124 spentof which $946,107 as grants20% of program spendingAfrica - Training and resources are provided to a network of national leaders throughout East Africa and West Africa who then train other leaders in effective church growth church health and church planting. The same processes used in Latin America have been shown to accelerate growth in Africa.
$997,325 spentof which $639,961 as grants20% of program spendingEurope - Training and resources are provided to a growing network of national leaders in this region who then train congregations and individuals in church growth church health and church planting. Strong and healthy churches have ben proven to affect positive changes in the lives of individuals and communities by sharing and applying the message of Gods work through Jesus Christ.
$298,424 spentof which $102,904 as grants6% of program spendingCenter for Innovation & Technology - We will increase our capacity to train church planters by developing our More Churches Stronger Churches programs and Multiplication Network University on digital platforms. We will incorporate online multilingual global training supported by world-class transmedia capabilities. And we will provide real-time first-person digital reporting from the field. We will develop and create the training delivery platforms acquire the necessary hardware translate the materials into the ten major languages we currently utilize and design reporting mechanisms that church planters can utilize.
$292,580 spentof which $30,067 as grants6% of program spendingEurasia - Training and resources are provided to a network of leaders throughout the region who train congregations and individuals in church growth church health and church planting. The objective is to provide this training and these resources to typically under-resourced and remote areas in Eurasia.
$376,109 spentof which $176,809 as grants8% of program spendingCaribbean & US Hispanics - Training and resources are provided to a network of national leaders throughout the region who train congregations and individuals in church growth church health and church planting. Our objective is to provide this training and these resources to typically under-resourced areas in order to grow strong churches in towns and neighborhoods throughout the region even in the most remote areas. Strong and healthy churches are proven to affect positive changes in the lives of individuals and communities by sharing and applying the message of Gods work through Jesus Christ.
$590,090 spentof which $259,210 as grants12% of program spending
The 7 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $5,010,532.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2020 to 2021, from $3.6M to $4.5M (+23%).
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.
98% of MULTIPLICATION NETWORK MINISTRIES’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (90% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 5 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
Todd Benkert
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 27 funders, grant income rose $768k → $1.5M.
13 of 44 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 65% 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 MULTIPLICATION NETWORK MINISTRIES’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 44 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
MULTIPLICATION NETWORK MINISTRIES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 48% of grant income and the top three 69%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
67% 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 MULTIPLICATION NETWORK MINISTRIES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 68% · 2018 56% · 2019 72% · 2020 42% · 2021 58% · 2022 50% · 2023 46% — 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
67% of MULTIPLICATION NETWORK MINISTRIES's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 70% 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
65% of MULTIPLICATION NETWORK MINISTRIES'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 $3.2M that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Illinois, across 12 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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
MULTIPLICATION NETWORK MINISTRIES is better cushioned than half of the 2,399 religion nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,399 religion nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like MULTIPLICATION NETWORK MINISTRIES
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 Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
74% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
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Questions and answers
- Who funds MULTIPLICATION NETWORK MINISTRIES?
- MULTIPLICATION NETWORK MINISTRIES (Illinois) receives grants from 44 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,347,840 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($4,523,022). 31 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 65% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does MULTIPLICATION NETWORK MINISTRIES have?
- IRS filings report 44 organizations giving $9,347,840 in grants to MULTIPLICATION NETWORK MINISTRIES, 31 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MULTIPLICATION NETWORK MINISTRIES?
- NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC is the largest funder on record, with $4,523,022 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MULTIPLICATION NETWORK MINISTRIES find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 44 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