Ohio · Nonprofit
SUMMIT MISSIONS INC
SUMMIT MISSIONS INC (Ohio) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $175,052 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($70,500). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 98% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.4M
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $175k
- Net assets
- $1.2M
What Summit Missions Inc does
Mission
Mobilize people, resources and national Christian partners Meet needs through product shipments and promote business as missions, meet physical needs of children-at-risk motivate youth to experience Gods love and recognize their personal worth, Multiply churches that positively influence their communities, and Magnify the Lords love grace
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Form 990 Part III, Line 4A Children and Youth Children are the future of any country, so Summit Missions International SMI places a large focus on supporting childrens ministries. We motivate youth to experience Gods love and to recognize their personal worth. Over 3,950 children and youth were presented with the Gospel of Jesus Christ. SMI sponsored Bible Clubs which included training leaders in the Spring, providing crafts, meals, and snacks for the weeklong programs hosted by churches in Moldova and Transnistria. 2,500 children attended and 11,345 meals were served. SMI distributed 78,032 to support the program. SMI provided 9,660 to the Children of the Street feeding and tutoring program in Gringoriopol, Transnistria. Here, children received a hot meal, help with schoolwork, a Bible lesson, and were shown the love of God from the staff. Continued funding of Adventure Camp for 16,098. This program in Transnistria offers children and teens an intense rafting, camping, extreme sports, discipleship, and leadership development program centered on Christ. Supported sports ministry outreaches in Europe where 1,000 youth were presented with the Gospel. SMI helped this ministry with…
$905,943 spent60% of program spendingForm 990, Part III, Line 4B Church Planting and Development. SMI believes that every man, woman, and child should have the opportunity to hear the Gospel of Jesus Christ at least one time. Our partners work at multiplying churches that positively influence their communities in both Ukraine and Transnistria. 642 pastors and leaders trained 9 new churches planted. SMI partners with Generations Missions Association, a church planting group based in Kyiv, Ukraine.SMI supplied 39,172 to assist in church planting and pastor training.Additionally, 7,911 was given to Church Without Walls in Transnistria to support their outreach to young people, as well as adult leadership training, and church planting.Approximately 64,250 people were presented the Gospel of Jesus Christ. 24,430 Bibles were distributed in these areas.
$377,476 spent25% of program spendingForm 990, Part III, Line 4C Humanitarian Assistance, Aid and Shipping We mobilize people and provide resources to assist our Eastern European mission partners who are serving as field representatives for SMI. We meet needs through product shipments and promote business as missions. Approximately 80,000 meals were provided and served in Ukraine. 36,450 Hygiene Kits and 72,906 Food Packs were distributed to refugees and needy families. Locally, SMI operates with a staff of one full-time and four part-time employees.We maintain accurate records, local and international communications, public relations, and publication of 775 quarterly newsletters.Additionally, volunteers served a total of 4,962 hours valued at 157,791. Those volunteers sorted, packaged, and shipped 13 sea containers with a total weight of 316,469 pounds of aid. SMI received and processed gift-in-kind donations in the amount of 212,081 pounds valued at 890,180 for distribution to the needy and for our Thrift Store partner in Eastern Europe.The Thrift Store Project Business as Mission was started in 2009 and continues in Moldova and Ukraine. All financial records, receipts and expenditures are accurately processed,…
$226,486 spent15% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,509,905.
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 $1.4M to $1.3M (−7%).
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.
98% of SUMMIT MISSIONS INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (90% 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
Esley Patsch
Exe Chairman of BOD
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 $9k → $41k.
7 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 98% 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 SUMMIT MISSIONS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 8 of 9 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
SUMMIT MISSIONS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 77%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
98% 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 SUMMIT MISSIONS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 94% · 2019 100% · 2020 62% · 2021 51% · 2022 52% · 2023 100% — 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
20% of SUMMIT MISSIONS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% 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
98% of SUMMIT MISSIONS 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 $3k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Ohio, across 1 state.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $172k 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
SUMMIT MISSIONS INC has grown faster than half of the 2,394 religion nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,394 religion nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like SUMMIT MISSIONS 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 Ohio
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
94% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
64%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds SUMMIT MISSIONS INC?
- SUMMIT MISSIONS INC (Ohio) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $175,052 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($70,500). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 98% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does SUMMIT MISSIONS INC have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $175,052 in grants to SUMMIT MISSIONS INC, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SUMMIT MISSIONS INC?
- NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC is the largest funder on record, with $70,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SUMMIT MISSIONS INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. 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 9 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