Michigan · Nonprofit
Scholar Leaders International
Scholar Leaders International (Michigan) receives grants from 33 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,153,972 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($4,904,784). 27 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
- $8.8M
- Funders on record
- 33
- Grants received
- $13M
- Net assets
- $7.4M
What Scholar Leaders International does
Mission
Scholar Leaders International exists to encourage and enable Christian theological leaders from the Majority World - Africa, Asia, Central and Eastern Europe, Latin America, and the Middle East - for the Global Church. We do this through supporting leaders, guiding executives, engaging Majority World concerns and sharing knowledge across contexts.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Church & society - convene and resource leaders around specific topics, including equipping the church for ministry among other religions, advancing women leaders, and tackling other challenging issues facing the church and society in their context.
$1,179,126 spentof which $555,303 as grants34% of program spendingTheological book network receives and donates theology and related books to christian educational institutes in the majority world.
$966,035 spentof which $584,000 as grants28% of program spendingLeaderstudies - provide phd-level scholarships and personal support for majority world scholars in theological studies.
$722,568 spentof which $613,413 as grants21% of program spendingVital sustainability initiative - consult with executives at theological schools to clarify unique missions, define objectives, and formulate strategic plans. Also maintain bibliotech, a digital library for majority world seminaries and educational institutions.
$437,413 spent12% of program spendingOther programs include insights journal & other engagement with the global church
$199,246 spent6% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,504,388.
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 2023 to 2024, from $2.8M to $8.0M (+190%).
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: 2022 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of Scholar Leaders International’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Board chair
Tite Tienou
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 11 funders to 22 funders, grant income rose $827k → $2.1M.
10 of 33 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 Scholar Leaders International’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 33 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
Scholar Leaders International has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 37% 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
79% 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 Scholar Leaders International.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 36% · 2018 39% · 2019 31% · 2020 46% · 2021 36% · 2022 43% · 2023 38% — 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.
How long its funders stay
68% of Scholar Leaders International's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 82% 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 Scholar Leaders 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. Of the $4.6M that is directly attributable, 85% of it comes from funders outside Michigan, across 12 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $8.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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
Scholar Leaders International runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 11,752 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,752 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding Scholar Leaders International receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $182 on record.
- REFUNDS - GENERAL $182
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like Scholar Leaders 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 Michigan
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
59%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 17 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Scholar Leaders 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 Scholar Leaders International?
- Scholar Leaders International (Michigan) receives grants from 33 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,153,972 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($4,904,784). 27 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 Scholar Leaders International have?
- IRS filings report 33 organizations giving $13,153,972 in grants to Scholar Leaders International, 27 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Scholar Leaders International?
- NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC is the largest funder on record, with $4,904,784 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Scholar Leaders International find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Michigan. 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 33 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