Minnesota · Nonprofit
PULSE OUTREACH
PULSE OUTREACH (Minnesota) receives grants from 50 organizations whose IRS filings report $44,887,266 to it, the largest being Servant Foundation ($11,213,130). 31 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 81% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $14M
- Funders on record
- 50
- Grants received
- $45M
- Net assets
- $14M
What Pulse Outreach does
Mission
Pulse evangelism is on mission to bring jesus to the pulse of a generation by all means possible, through the ministry of nick hall and a team of emerging evangelists.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Through in-person and digital outreach events, nick hall and a team of emerging evangelists share the gospel across america and around the world, while rallying believers and the church to do the same. Highlights-- in fiscal year 2025, over 240,000,000 people were reached with the gospel all over the world, through live and digital events. - over 70,000 were reached with the gospel through amplify in benton, ar, and an additional 80,000,000 through the eastern europe rebroadcast. - the pulse north dakota campaign shared the gospel through events of all sizes, with the vision to send the hope of jesus to every part of the state. This included events at fairs, festivals, reservations, schools, churches, campuses, and beyond. This included hosting our first ever pulse kids event, reaching over 500 kids and families with the gospel.
$5,309,807 spentof which $4,776 as grants$230,862 earned by the program59% of program spendingWe identify, train, and launch young evangelists who are passionate about making jesus known in their communities and beyond. Through programs like pulse 100, internships, the make jesus known evangelism training, and our in-development school of evangelism, we're investing in the future of the church and the future of evangelism.highlights-- over 400 young evangelists have been trained through the pulse 100 young evangelist program. - since 2019, over 250 interns have been trained and discipled through the pulse internship program. - we hosted our first ever youth evangelism conference, training hundreds of teens to share their faith. - renovations are in progress on the pulse housing & training center with a vision to establish a global hub for evangelism. To date, nearly 100% of the funding has been completed.- in total, 6,310 were trained to share the gospel through pulse's training programs in fiscal year 2025.
$3,683,014 spent$31,352 earned by the program41% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $8,992,821.
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 2021 to 2022, from $8.1M to $17M (+109%).
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: 2021 7% · 2022 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of PULSE OUTREACH’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (84% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 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
Ben Meland
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 18 funders, grant income rose $1.6M → $7.8M.
23 of 50 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 81% 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 PULSE OUTREACH’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 50 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
PULSE OUTREACH has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% 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
82% 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 PULSE OUTREACH.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 76% · 2018 75% · 2019 34% · 2020 37% · 2021 40% · 2022 36% · 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
50% of PULSE OUTREACH's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% 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
81% of PULSE OUTREACH'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 $8.6M that is directly attributable, 64% of it comes from funders outside Minnesota, across 14 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $36M arriving through sponsors registered in 16 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
PULSE OUTREACH runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 127 religion nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 127 religion nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like PULSE OUTREACH
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
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 27 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PULSE OUTREACH: 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 PULSE OUTREACH?
- PULSE OUTREACH (Minnesota) receives grants from 50 organizations whose IRS filings report $44,887,266 to it, the largest being Servant Foundation ($11,213,130). 31 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 81% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does PULSE OUTREACH have?
- IRS filings report 50 organizations giving $44,887,266 in grants to PULSE OUTREACH, 31 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PULSE OUTREACH?
- Servant Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $11,213,130 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PULSE OUTREACH 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.
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 50 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