Minnesota · Nonprofit
WILBERFORCE INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE
WILBERFORCE INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE (Minnesota) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $349,192 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($175,710). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 83% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $252k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $349k
- Net assets
- $77k
What Wilberforce International Institute does
Mission
Training International Students to be Redemptive Change Agents in Their Home Societies and Workplaces
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
GLOBAL (AFRICA) FLOURISHING PROJECT: Wilberforce International Institute exists "To equip internationals to bring Christ-centered transformation to their societies." To this end we employ a long-term strategy of education and mentoring of internationals as they study in both the USA and abroad. We continue this mentoring process as they develop into Wilberforce Fellows who have developed and implemented their own redemptive projects in their home societies. All Wilberforce Fellows are expected to share and reproduce their redemptive work with other likeminded people in their home communities. In 2024 Wilberforce pioneered a new project, the Global Flourishing Project (GFP). The aim of this project is to work with our existing internationals to build schools teaching basic entrepreneurship that focus on anti-corruption and bringing about redemptive change in local communities. We began the GFP with a pilot project in Zomba, Malawi in June and August 2024. We partnered with the MINTS Seminary in Zomba and their students. We successfully taught basic college level courses in Entrepreneurship and Marketing to nearly 40 students. We also worked to provide MINTS with StarLink internet…
$38,689 spent$1,000 earned by the program27% of program spendingMENTORING AND ASSOCIATED MINISTRY TO STUDENTS: Mentoring more than 50 international students to be redemptive change agents in their home societies and associated ministry services to the broader student population. Provided ministry services to more than 50 other international and American students, former students, academics, and others. The major accomplishment and event this year was the expansion of the Global Flourishing Project.
$33,773 spent23% of program spendingWRITING AND RESEARCH: With a gift from a generous donor, we began a research project on Biblical leadership. The field research phase of this project was completed in 2024 with final writing completed in in early 2026. The book is expected to be published in 2026.
$23,209 spent$15,000 earned by the program16% of program spendingTRAINING AND INSTRUCTION Continuous and ongoing development of training curriculum for college students and the broader community. This included our signature Comparative Worldviews and Anti-Corruption courses with 21 students enrolled, representing five different nations. We further developed the Anti-Corruption course into a credited graduate level online course for The New International University, in which students from around the world were enrolled in 2024. Besides courses, Wilberforce faculty gave over 50 lectures and talks during the year.
$22,270 spent15% of program spendingMINISTRY COLLABORATION Partnered with ministry partners, national/international organizations, churches, and international student leaders in Campus Prayer Meetings, collaborative projects, and program enhancements. Included in this was travel to international ministry conferences to enhance the visibility of Wilberforce International Institute and the work that we are doing. The staff also participated in board leadership of various organizations.
$15,147 spent10% of program spendingINTERNATIONAL TRAVEL/SPEAKING/VISION Wilberforce faculty traveled to Japan, Malawi, Panama, Lesotho, Eswatini, and South Africa in order to consult with and encourage Wilberforce Fellows who are working in their home societies for redemptive change. This included multiple speaking engagements and seminars taught locally in conjunction with Wilberforce Fellows. Multiple communities were served, along with other individuals besides the Wilberforce Fellows. Public lectures on corruption and entrepreneurship in both Asia and Africa were attended by several hundred people. During the 2025 calendar year Wilberforce International Institute continued our partnership with the YouVersion Bible App to provide devotional content in multiple languages. To date we have provided devotions in the following languages: English, Spanish, Japanese, and Indonesian.
$12,420 spent9% of program spending
The 6 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $145,508.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2021 to 2022, from $107k to $35k (−67%).
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 WILBERFORCE INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE’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. 2 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.
Chief executive
Kevin Cooney
President & Executive Director
Board chair
Rinto Dasuki
Director & Board Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $45k → $76k.
5 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 83% 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 WILBERFORCE INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE’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
WILBERFORCE INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% of grant income and the top three 83%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
83% 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 WILBERFORCE INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 89% · 2020 93% · 2021 73% · 2022 54% · 2023 43% — 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.
How long its funders stay
40% of WILBERFORCE INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 88% 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
83% of WILBERFORCE INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE'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 $61k that is directly attributable, 99% of it comes from funders outside Minnesota, across 3 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $289k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
WILBERFORCE INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 7,334 religion nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,334 religion nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like WILBERFORCE INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE
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 Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
63% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
85%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds WILBERFORCE INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE?
- WILBERFORCE INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE (Minnesota) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $349,192 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($175,710). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 83% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does WILBERFORCE INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $349,192 in grants to WILBERFORCE INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WILBERFORCE INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $175,710 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WILBERFORCE INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 8 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