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Advancing Native Missions

Afton, VA · EIN 75-2402759. Reported 65 grants totalling $1,588,522 to 33 organizations across tax years 2021-2025, on Form 990 Schedule I.

33organizations funded
$14,580median reported grant
$1,588,522granted, 2021-2025
57%of grantees funded again the next year
19%of dollars to its largest recipient

Does this grantmaker accept applications?

Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.

Three things in the filing do bear on it:

  1. What kind of organization it is. The IRS has no activity classification on file for this one, so we cannot tell you whether it is a community foundation or a single-institution support fund. The recipient list below is the better guide.
  2. How spread out its giving is. 33 distinct organizations, with 19% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
  3. How much its list changes. 57% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is about the 56% median for grantmaking charities -- lower than the 67% median for private foundations. It describes the organizations it already funds, not whether it would consider a new one.

How big are its grants?

The median reported grant is $14,580. Half of what it reported fell between $8,925 and $29,719; the smallest was $5,000 and the largest $119,246. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.

Schedule I only reports grants over $5,000. Form 990 requires a charity to list recipients it paid more than that and lets it omit the rest, so every grant-size figure on this page describes the grants it reported, not all of them. Its real median is lower and its real recipient count is higher. This is also why these numbers cannot be compared with the private-foundation figures elsewhere on this site -- Form 990-PF has no reporting floor, so the two are different populations rather than two samples of one.
$5,000 - $10,000
20 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
24 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
11 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
9 grants
$100,000 - $250,000
1 grant

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Cornerstone Ministries InternationalTustin, CA$294,944442025
Presbyterian Mission International IncSt Louis, MO$196,202332025
Seedtime & Harvest Ministries IncSan Antonio, TX$127,161332025
Mihret Medical Supply Group IncRuckersville, VA$110,486332025
Reach Initiative InternationalAlpharetta, GA$99,980222024
China Harvest IncWichita, KS$95,573332025
Global Fellowship IncMeadow Vista, CA$72,339332025
Elam Ministries IncAlpharetta, GA$59,785332025
Multimedia Theological TrainingGreenville, SC$46,000332025
Deeper StillKnoxville, TN$42,590332025
Comfort My People IncJupiter, FL$39,957112025
ChinareachWichita, KS$37,391332025
Global FellowshipMeadow Vista, CA$34,700112022
Jerusalem Institute of Justice IncMckinney, TX$34,603222024
Helps International Ministries IncorporatedAsheville, NC$31,476222025
Set Beautiful FreeGeorgetown, TX$31,002222025
Foundation for Advanced Study and TrainingRichmond, VA$30,000222023
CrossworldKansas City, MO$29,329332025
Village to Village Ministries InternationalPhiladelphia, PA$26,702332025
Holy Land MissionsSpringfield, MO$19,589222025
House of Israel International Ministries IncAurora, CO$19,548222024
Big Life International IncBlue Ridge, GA$17,095112023
Alongside Asia IncTyrone, GA$14,580112024
His Love in ActionBradenton, FL$11,544112023
Estrellas Y Arena CorpLehigh Acres, FL$10,689112023
Asia Partners IncFrederick, MD$10,000112024
Awake IsraelLos Angeles, CA$8,925112023
All NeighborsLeesburg, VA$7,500112023
Asia HarvestWinston Salem, NC$6,294112023
Strategic Global Assistance IncElkhart, IN$6,250112023
Grass Roots Development IncCharlottesvle, VA$5,848112022
Kairos Media TrustWoodhaven, NY$5,440112025
Asian Childrens Education Fellowship IncShelbyville, TN$5,000112023

19 of 33 (58%) received money in more than one year over the 5 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.

It also reported 5 groups of grants to individuals -- scholarships, emergency assistance and similar. Schedule I reports these by category with a headcount and never by name, so there is nothing here we could publish about the recipients even if we wanted to.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 27 of 33 recipients we could match to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's, not ours -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.

Religion
14 orgs
International Affairs
7 orgs
Human Services
3 orgs
Employment
1 org
Recreation & Sports
1 org
Philanthropy & Grantmaking
1 org

Giving by year

Tax yearGrants reportedTotalMedian grant
20211$12,000$12,000
20225$70,872$9,300
202323$620,423$15,797
202419$486,210$14,580
202517$399,017$15,000

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.

Where its money goes

26% of its giving went to organizations in California. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.

California
$411K
Missouri
$245K
Texas
$193K
Georgia
$191K
Virginia
$154K
Kansas
$133K
Florida
$62K
Tennessee
$48K

Down to the city

Tustin, CA
$295K
St Louis, MO
$196K
Alpharetta, GA
$160K
Wichita, KS
$133K
San Antonio, TX
$127K
Ruckersville, VA
$110K

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Funders that support the same organizations

These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.

Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc21 shared recipientsFidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund18 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc14 shared recipientsServant Foundation7 shared recipientsVanguard Charitable Endowment Program6 shared recipientsNational Philanthropic Trust6 shared recipients

How to approach this grantmaker

  1. Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
  2. Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $14,580 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
  3. Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in California.
  4. Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.

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Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Advancing Native Missions's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 5 returns (tax years 2021-2025). Grant figures are from its returns. Recipient classifications, the concentration and retention figures and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations from them, described in how we build this.

Address of record on the latest return: Po Box 29, Afton, VA, 22920.

EIN 75-2402759 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

This is history, not an open call. Form 990 is published about a year after the tax year it covers. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this organization has actually funded.

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