Tennessee · Nonprofit
SHAD WILLIAMS EVANGELISTIC ASSOCIATION INC
SHAD WILLIAMS EVANGELISTIC ASSOCIATION INC (Tennessee) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,377,938 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($567,700). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 92% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.3M
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $1.4M
- Net assets
- $70k
What Shad Williams Evangelistic Association Inc does
Mission
Shad Williams Evangelistic Association and Global Field Evangelism exists to share the Good News of Jesus Christ with as many people as possible, as quickly as possible. We teach and disciple indigenous evangelists in developing countries on how to do evangelism and disciple new Christians. We support indigenous evangelists who we have trained under our ministry to do the work of evangelism.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The Global Field Evangelism network of national evangelists exists in 14 countries in Africa: Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. These teams work all year round preaching in villages, market-places, prisons, high schools, colleges, and at Jesus Film shows. They are funded to do these meetings and receive personal support from the US ministry of SWEA. This year they conducted 28,512 separate meetings. They preached to over 24,654,000 people and recorded over 22,619,000 individuals who indicated a decision for Christ. They also held 173 seminars where they trained 36,842 pastors, evangelists, and lay-people on how to do personal evangelism and how to conduct church-wide and mass evangelism events. We purchased 6 vehicles to use for evangelistic purposes: 1 in Burundi, 2 in Rwanda, 2 in Tanzania, and 1 in Uganda.
$1,043,375 spent85% of program spendingShad Williams Evangelistic Association continues the day to day work of administrating the ministry. Administrative duties consist of maintaining daily contact with the Regional Directors in East, Central, and South Africa, as well as communicating with individual team members. We also have regular communication with donors, maintain a mailing list for regular monthly newsletters, and conduct the daily financial affairs of the ministry.
$156,086 spent13% of program spendingDirect support for 2 orphanages in Eldoret Kenya. Money was used for food, clothing, medical care, and education of orphans.
$13,200 spent1% of program spendingGiving to support other religious organizations. A pastor in Haiti was sponsored for his Christian radio program that reaches all of Haiti and into the Dominican Republic and for humanitarian aid ($2,200). On The Go Ministries (501c3 organization in Nashville, TN) was supported for evangelistic work ($10,000). Eagle Projects International (501c3 organization in Sangerville, ME) was supported for evangelistic work ($1,200).
$13,400 spent1% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,226,061.
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.
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 $51k to $125k (+148%).
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: 2020 4% · 2021 0% · 2022 0% · 2023 0% · 2024 0% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 4 funders, grant income fell $101k → $100k.
6 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 92% 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 SHAD WILLIAMS EVANGELISTIC ASSOCIATION INC’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
SHAD WILLIAMS EVANGELISTIC ASSOCIATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 41% of grant income and the top three 88%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
92% 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 SHAD WILLIAMS EVANGELISTIC ASSOCIATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 50% · 2018 55% · 2019 56% · 2020 87% · 2021 50% · 2022 55% · 2023 70% — growing more concentrated.
“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
92% of SHAD WILLIAMS EVANGELISTIC ASSOCIATION INC'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 $104k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Tennessee, across 1 state.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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.
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In Tennessee
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Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
97% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
55%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds SHAD WILLIAMS EVANGELISTIC ASSOCIATION INC?
- SHAD WILLIAMS EVANGELISTIC ASSOCIATION INC (Tennessee) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,377,938 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($567,700). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 92% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does SHAD WILLIAMS EVANGELISTIC ASSOCIATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $1,377,938 in grants to SHAD WILLIAMS EVANGELISTIC ASSOCIATION INC, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SHAD WILLIAMS EVANGELISTIC ASSOCIATION INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $567,700 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SHAD WILLIAMS EVANGELISTIC ASSOCIATION INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Tennessee. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2020–2025), and the filings of 7 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