Kansas · Nonprofit
SIGNIFICANT MATTERS INC
SIGNIFICANT MATTERS INC (Kansas) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $653,424 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($416,674). 3 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
- $333k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $653k
- Net assets
- $772k
What Significant Matters Inc does
Mission
Our mission is to advance sustainable solutions to material poverty through the faith-driven community. We do this by working with faith-driven individuals businesses churches and other organizations to pursue and promote sustainable and transformative solutions for people and communities fighting poverty and seeking a better future. All as an expression of our love for God and neighbor.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
EquityVest is being developed as a Regulation Crowdfunding Reg CF portal to support companies and entrepreneurs who believe business combined with faith and Christian virtues can generate lasting economic social environmental and spiritual benefits and act as a tempering agent against selfishness and greed. We believe such an approach advances social justice and inclusion that lifts individuals and whole communities out of material poverty while expressing Gods tangible love. Our purpose is to mobilize the faith-based world to more intentionally use enterprise solutions as a way to shape culture address poverty affirm human dignity and advance the gospel.
$178,632 spent$213,706 earned by the program82% of program spendingMission 3.0 - This is a resource for congregations and their business-minded donors who want to invest financially in job creation entrepreneurship and Business as Mission BAM through the mission work of their church.
$19,746 spent9% of program spendingSAT Catalyst - We continue to work with faith-driven individuals businesses churches and other organizations to pursue and promote sustainable and transformative solutions for people and communities fighting poverty and seeking a better future. Done through workshops webinars and individual consulting.
$19,746 spent$8,650 earned by the program9% 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: $218,124.
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. 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 $388k to $685k (+76%).
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.
26% of SIGNIFICANT MATTERS INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 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
Ron Zwisler
Chairman of the Board
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $21k → $132k.
3 of 3 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 SIGNIFICANT MATTERS 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
SIGNIFICANT MATTERS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 64% 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 SIGNIFICANT MATTERS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 97% · 2022 46% · 2023 42% — 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.
Where its funders are
100% of SIGNIFICANT MATTERS 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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $653k 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
SIGNIFICANT MATTERS INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 21,616 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,616 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like SIGNIFICANT MATTERS INC
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 Kansas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
72%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- SAT Catalyst Fund · disregarded
- EquityVest LLC · disregarded
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SIGNIFICANT MATTERS INC: 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 SIGNIFICANT MATTERS INC?
- SIGNIFICANT MATTERS INC (Kansas) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $653,424 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($416,674). 3 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 SIGNIFICANT MATTERS INC have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $653,424 in grants to SIGNIFICANT MATTERS INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SIGNIFICANT MATTERS INC?
- NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC is the largest funder on record, with $416,674 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SIGNIFICANT MATTERS INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Kansas. 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 2020–2024), and the filings of 3 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