Illinois · Nonprofit
NATIONS ABLAZE INTERNATIONAL
NATIONS ABLAZE INTERNATIONAL (Illinois) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $212,956 to it, the largest being THE DENVER FOUNDATION ($126,956). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $343k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $213k
- Net assets
- $144k
What Nations Ablaze International does
Mission
Teaching Biblical truths and training Christian leaders in Latin American countries to positively impact their own nation as well as nations beyond.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Christ for the Nations Colombia In 2025, Nations Ablaze International NAI supported Cristo Para Las Naciones Colombia CPN, a Christian Leadership Institute. CPN is a program under the Colombian NGO/NPO Fundacion Soluciones Juveniles. CPN prepares next-gen Latino leaders to make an impact in their community as well as in the nations. NAI supports the Christian leadership school by paying some salaries, donations for new projects, missions, and scholarships for underprivileged students. There was an average of 95 full-time students originating from 6 nations. There were 5 student-led mission projects that impacted over 4000 lives. The mission projects included street outreaches to bring hope to the homeless on the streets of Medellin, work with the indigenous Wayuu, Ticuna, and Embera in their native territories with social help as well as spiritual encouragement, and regularly visit prisons to encourage the inmates.
$74,094 spent$126,350 earned by the program26% of program spendingCloud Foundation NAI contributed to Cloud Foundation in the US as well as a sister foundation in Colombia. The Cloud Foundation is a nonprofit volunteer-run organization whose focus is to impact vulnerable communities through food distribution, medical attention, and spiritual enrichment. Over 1000 prison inmates in six cities went through values training, seventeen young girls were rescued from prostitution. To accomplish this goal, the organization has developed a leadership network to prepare young adults to pilot programs in Colombia as well as other nations to improve conditions in at-risk communities.
$118,377 spent$33,500 earned by the program41% of program spendingChurch Planting NAI is assisting in the planting of two churches in Colombia with successful outreach and social aid programs.
$39,877 spent$57,980 earned by the program14% of program spendingProgram Service Expenses 55,000, Grants and allocations 0, Revenue 79,701 Leadership Training for Latino Pastors Many Latino pastors have not had formal leadership and theological training. Finances were used for transportation, food, housinig, and bringing guest speakers for the events.
$55,000 spent$79,701 earned by the program19% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $287,348.
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 2020 to 2021, from $47k to $129k (+175%).
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.
100% of NATIONS ABLAZE INTERNATIONAL’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations 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. 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 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $11k → $8k.
2 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 NATIONS ABLAZE 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
NATIONS ABLAZE INTERNATIONAL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 60% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 NATIONS ABLAZE INTERNATIONAL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% — broadly stable.
“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
100% of NATIONS ABLAZE 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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $213k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
NATIONS ABLAZE INTERNATIONAL runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 12,816 religion nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,816 religion nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like NATIONS ABLAZE 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 Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
90%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for NATIONS ABLAZE 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 NATIONS ABLAZE INTERNATIONAL?
- NATIONS ABLAZE INTERNATIONAL (Illinois) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $212,956 to it, the largest being THE DENVER FOUNDATION ($126,956). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does NATIONS ABLAZE INTERNATIONAL have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $212,956 in grants to NATIONS ABLAZE INTERNATIONAL, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NATIONS ABLAZE INTERNATIONAL?
- THE DENVER FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $126,956 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NATIONS ABLAZE INTERNATIONAL 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 2 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