South Carolina · Nonprofit
The Great Commission Inc
The Great Commission Inc (South Carolina) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $64,850 to it, the largest being Remember NHU Inc ($30,600). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2022
- $138k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $65k
- Net assets
- $313k
What The Great Commission Inc does
Programs
On its FY2022 return the organization reported a significant change in how it conducts a program.
Considering the death of the president, Dan Johnson, and the absence of suitable replacement resources, the organization notified all missionaries that The Great Commission would no longer be able support their missionary activities. The organization also notified all donors that The Great Commission would cease accepting donations for missionaries as of December 31, 2022.In relation to the above the organization decided to sell all real estate previously used for ministerial purposes.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 3).
The greatest portion of funds handled by The Great Commission, Inc. is given directly to missionary ministries. That amount was $408,813 in 2022. It is the policy of The Great Commission, Inc. to give 100% of designated gifts to the individual ministries for which the gifts were designated without any deduction of administrative costs for The Great Commission, Inc.
$408,813 spent$337,835 earned by the program61% of program spendingThe Great Commission, Inc. helped fund several special ministries in 2022. The funds for these ministries were received as undesignated gifts or the sale of properties owned by The Great Commission, Inc. and placed into the general fund. The board of directors of The Great Commission then designated the funds to different ministries and/or projects as they arise. Our medical fund for current and retired missionaries has met special medical needs.In 2022 the Great Commission gave $244,072 to the Evangelical Institute of Greenville for ministry purposes. The total of other miscellaneous projects not mentioned above was $5357.
$264,668 spent$28,662 earned by the program39% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2022 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $673,481.
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.
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 $856k to $313k (−63%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Board chair
Michael Garreau
Chairman
As listed on its FY2022 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $34k → $2k.
2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 39% 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 The Great Commission 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
The Great Commission Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 47% of grant income and the top three 89%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
86% 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 The Great Commission Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 90% · 2019 59% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — 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
The Great Commission Inc draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside South Carolina, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $25k 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.
Organizations like The Great Commission 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 South Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
99% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
92%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for The Great Commission 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 The Great Commission Inc?
- The Great Commission Inc (South Carolina) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $64,850 to it, the largest being Remember NHU Inc ($30,600). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does The Great Commission Inc have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $64,850 in grants to The Great Commission Inc, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of The Great Commission Inc?
- Remember NHU Inc is the largest funder on record, with $30,600 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like The Great Commission Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in South Carolina. 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 FY2022 (financials across 2017–2022), and the filings of 4 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