Missouri · Nonprofit
TORCHBEARER FOUNDATION FOR MISSIONS RECONCILIATION AND DEVELOPMENT DBA Igniting Africa
TORCHBEARER FOUNDATION FOR MISSIONS RECONCILIATION AND DEVELOPMENT DBA Igniting Africa (Missouri) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $66,000 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE OZARKS INC ($66,000). 1 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 FY2025
- $9k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $66k
- Net assets
- $5k
What TORCHBEARER FOUNDATION FOR MISSIONS RECONCILIATION AND DEVELOPMENT DBA Igniting Africa does
Mission
We seek to ensure that poor children all across africa acquire the skills necessary to thrive, experience greater freedom, access to free enterprise, faith, and the love exemplified by jesus christ. We seek to teach them to embrace their responsibility for the transformation of individuals, communities, nations, and all of africa through these principles and practices based upon the gospel of our lord jesus christ. In 2024, we began doing charitable work in the st. Louis, missouri, usa metro area and hope to expand this ministry to other areas as funding allows. The ministry work in the usa involves working with local churches to identify needy families to receive assistance in meeting household needs and christmas gifts for their children.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
$500 was donated to the Bopeya Church orphanage in the Democratic Republic of Congo through a gift to the Deborah Project. The funds were used to provide clothing and tuition for schooling for children served by the ministry.
$0 spentof which $500 as grantsA $500 gift was provided to Eya's Angels, a nonprofit group that provide free basic diagnostic and preventative care, educational support, micro-financing, supplies to orphanages and other nonprofit groups in need in the Republic of Cameroon.
$0 spentof which $500 as grantsA total of $3200 was provided to the Torchbearer Foundation for Missions Reconciliation, and Development of Cameroon to support the development of Farm School property in the Village of Menteh in the NW District of Cameroon.
$0 spentof which $3,200 as grantsA total of $1672 was donated to support Christmas giving projects in cooperation with Advancing Church and First Baptist Church of Chesterfield, two St Louis, Missouri area churches. Funds were used to purchase household items, groceries, and children's Christmas presents for distribution among disadvantaged families in the St Louis metro area.
$0 spentof which $1,642 as grants
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $0.
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 2022 to 2023, from $34k to $6k (−81%).
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.
99% of TORCHBEARER FOUNDATION FOR MISSIONS RECONCILIATION AND DEVELOPMENT DBA Igniting Africa’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 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
Paul Anderson
Board chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $12k → $10k.
1 of 1 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 TORCHBEARER FOUNDATION FOR MISSIONS RECONCILIATION AND DEVELOPMENT DBA Igniting Africa’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.
Where its funders are
100% of TORCHBEARER FOUNDATION FOR MISSIONS RECONCILIATION AND DEVELOPMENT DBA Igniting Africa'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. $66k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
TORCHBEARER FOUNDATION FOR MISSIONS RECONCILIATION AND DEVELOPMENT DBA Igniting Africa's revenue fell 96% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,787 human services nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like TORCHBEARER FOUNDATION FOR MISSIONS RECONCILIATION AND DEVELOPMENT DBA Igniting Africa
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 Missouri
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
60%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds TORCHBEARER FOUNDATION FOR MISSIONS RECONCILIATION AND DEVELOPMENT DBA Igniting Africa?
- TORCHBEARER FOUNDATION FOR MISSIONS RECONCILIATION AND DEVELOPMENT DBA Igniting Africa (Missouri) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $66,000 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE OZARKS INC ($66,000). 1 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 TORCHBEARER FOUNDATION FOR MISSIONS RECONCILIATION AND DEVELOPMENT DBA Igniting Africa have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $66,000 in grants to TORCHBEARER FOUNDATION FOR MISSIONS RECONCILIATION AND DEVELOPMENT DBA Igniting Africa, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of TORCHBEARER FOUNDATION FOR MISSIONS RECONCILIATION AND DEVELOPMENT DBA Igniting Africa?
- COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE OZARKS INC is the largest funder on record, with $66,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TORCHBEARER FOUNDATION FOR MISSIONS RECONCILIATION AND DEVELOPMENT DBA Igniting Africa find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Missouri. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 1 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