Minnesota · Nonprofit
PRAYING PELICAN MISSIONS
PRAYING PELICAN MISSIONS (Minnesota) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $739,306 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($200,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 75% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $9.3M
- Funders on record
- 25
- Grants received
- $739k
- Net assets
- $-3037627
What Praying Pelican Missions does
Mission
PPM exists to build up encourage and assist the local Church in reaching and serving their communities for Christ. Primary activities include planning and leading international and domestic mission trips in accordance with this mission as well as a 365 day encouragement and assistance partners via local staff and programs ie pastors conference staff trainings and emergency response including response to disasters.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
PPMs core mission is to build up encourage and assist the local Church in reaching and serving their communities for Christ. A primary avenue in which we achieve this is through planning and leading international and domestic mission trips that uplift local churches and non-profits throughout the world. Beyond these trips our local staff and programs provide ongoing encouragement and assistance to partners year-round through initiatives like pastors conferences a robust relational network and emergency response. PPM also plays a vital role in disaster relief. Following natural disasters we support affected communities by providing resources and volunteers through our global network. Generous donations allow us to address immediate physical needs and our volunteers then dedicate significant time to damage assessment debris cleanup rebuilding food distribution and prayer ministry all of which aid in the long-term recovery process.
$7,085,679 spent97% of program spendingPPM365 is a continuous effort to build up encourage and assist the local Church 365 days a year. By sponsoring a churchs involvement in this program pastors and ministry leaders will receive local support training and encouragement leading to transformed communities in the name of Christ. Three areas of focus work in unison to accomplish this intentional effort. Church The Local Church is the catalyst for reaching our world for Christ. It is Gods master plan - to use His people to love and serve our world sharing the Good News of grace by faith to all people. Pastor An investment in a pastor is an investment in the Church. When pastors are healthy both spiritually and physically they are most able to lead a healthy vibrant congregation. Community Communities benefit when the local church is thriving. From support and care to meeting physical needs; a healthy Church is vital to a community.
$223,530 spent3% of program spendingNot described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $7,309,209.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 $1.5M to $331k (−77%).
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: 2019 0% · 2020 0% · 2021 26% · 2022 16% · 2023 0% · 2024 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
8% of PRAYING PELICAN MISSIONS’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (90% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 6 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
Ryan Eldridge
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 12 funders, grant income rose $120 → $124k.
9 of 25 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 75% 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 PRAYING PELICAN 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
PRAYING PELICAN MISSIONS has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 27% 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
85% 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 PRAYING PELICAN MISSIONS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 55% · 2020 76% · 2021 50% · 2022 39% · 2023 45% — 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
57% of PRAYING PELICAN MISSIONS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 36% 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
75% of PRAYING PELICAN MISSIONS'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 $187k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Minnesota, across 13 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $553k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
PRAYING PELICAN MISSIONS receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $739k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,399 religion nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like PRAYING PELICAN 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 Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
73% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 49 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PRAYING PELICAN MISSIONS: 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 PRAYING PELICAN MISSIONS?
- PRAYING PELICAN MISSIONS (Minnesota) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $739,306 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($200,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 75% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does PRAYING PELICAN MISSIONS have?
- IRS filings report 25 organizations giving $739,306 in grants to PRAYING PELICAN MISSIONS, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PRAYING PELICAN MISSIONS?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $200,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PRAYING PELICAN MISSIONS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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 2019–2024), and the filings of 25 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