Children & familiesFinancial documents reviewed
Sponsorship at the scale of a small government: $1.02bn of programme spending through 9,000 local churches, and your $43 is pooled.
Bangladesh · Bolivia · Brazil · Burkina Faso · +22 more
91× lower cost base than the US (Burkina Faso) · Isaiah 1:17
9 gifts of $50 cover one year of child development for one registered participant. Yours is 12% of one.
$422 per year of child development for one registered participant — 2025 program spending divided by 2,420,924 registered participants at year end.
Justice & anti-traffickingFinancial documents reviewed
Stations trained local monitors at 57 border and bus-station crossings to stop people before they are trafficked.
Nepal · Bangladesh · India · Indonesia · +14 more
370× lower cost base than the US (Burundi) · Proverbs 24:11–12
3 gifts of $50 cover one interception at a transit point. Yours is 38% of one.
$132 per interception at a transit point — 2025 program spending divided by 26,822 people intercepted to prevent them from being trafficked.
Church plantingFinancial documents reviewed
Coaches indigenous church planters in Africa and Asia and counts the churches they start.
Africa · South Asia · Southeast Asia
Matthew 28:18–20
5 gifts of $50 cover one new church planted. Yours is 21% of one.
$241 per new church planted — 2024 program spending divided by 28,873 new churches planted.
Schools & literacyFinancial documents reviewed
Rwandan-founded and Rwandan-staffed: pays the school fees of 12,326 students and publishes the count.
77× lower cost base than the US (Rwanda) · Deuteronomy 6:6–7
22 gifts of $50 cover one year of school for a sponsored student. Yours is 4.6% of one.
$1,091 per year of school for a sponsored student — 2025 program spending divided by 12,326 students sponsored.
Health & surgeryFinancial documents reviewed
Free surgery for children with treatable disabilities, at eight Christian hospitals.
Ethiopia · Kenya · Malawi · Niger · +4 more
148× lower cost base than the US (Malawi) · Matthew 9:35
38 gifts of $50 cover one surgery for a child. Yours is 2.6% of one.
$1,896 per surgery for a child — FY2025 program spending divided by 21,019 surgeries performed.
Schools & literacyFinancial documents reviewed
Trains and lends to the owners of low-fee Christian schools that already exist. Advertises $1.50 a student, a figure that counts children whose fees its own donors do not pay.
Burkina Faso · Ethiopia · Ghana · Kenya · +12 more
107× lower cost base than the US (Liberia) · Deuteronomy 6:6–7
4 gifts of $50 cover one school leader or teacher trained. Yours is 27% of one.
$186 per school leader or teacher trained — 2025 total spending divided by 97,410 school leaders and teachers trained.
Children & familiesFinancial documents reviewed
Publishes the price of both models: $55 a month for a child who sleeps at home, $300 for one who does not.
74× lower cost base than the US (Zambia) · Isaiah 1:17
21 gifts of $50 cover one child supported for nine months. Yours is 5.0% of one.
$1,006 per child supported for nine months — 2025 (nine months to 30 September) program spending divided by 11,300 vulnerable children served.
Work & livelihoodsFinancial documents reviewed
Lends and teaches saving through local churches, and is one of the few ministries that publishes both its repayment rate and its loan losses.
Benin · Burundi · Dominican Republic · Haiti · +8 more
370× lower cost base than the US (Burundi) · Leviticus 19:9–10
4 gifts of $50 cover one new saver or borrower reached in a year. Yours is 26% of one.
$191 per new saver or borrower reached in a year — 2025 program spending divided by 273,209 new savings group members and new microfinance clients served.
Health & surgeryFinancial documents reviewed
Trains African surgeons inside African mission hospitals, on condition that they stay.
Angola · Burundi · Cameroon · Egypt · +8 more
370× lower cost base than the US (Burundi) · 2 Timothy 2:2
527 gifts of $50 cover one year of surgical training for an African resident. Yours is 0.19% of one.
$26,342 per year of surgical training for an African resident — FYE June 2025 program spending divided by 186 residents and fellows in training.
Food & farmingFinancial documents reviewed
Plants ten million trees a year with smallholder farmers, and its audited books put the cost at almost exactly the dollar it advertises.
Burundi · DR Congo · Dominican Republic · Ethiopia · +5 more
370× lower cost base than the US (Burundi) · Isaiah 58:10
$50 covers about 49 trees planted.
$1.01 per tree planted — 2025 program spending divided by 10,227,457 trees planted.
Safe waterFinancial documents reviewed
Christian engineers building safe water systems, handed off to local churches and utilities.
Honduras · Indonesia · Kenya · Malawi · +4 more
148× lower cost base than the US (Malawi) · Matthew 25:35
$50 covers about 2 people served with safe water for a year.
$24.44 per person served with safe water for a year — 2025 program spending divided by 1,750,000 people served in 2025.
Children & familiesFinancial documents reviewed
Publishes a discrete $232m child sponsorship line, so for once the pooling behind a $39 ask is countable.
Isaiah 1:17
6 gifts of $50 cover one year of sponsorship funding for one child. Yours is 19% of one.
$269 per year of sponsorship funding for one child — 2025 program spending divided by 865,000 children who benefited from child sponsorship programmes supported by US donors.
Children & familiesFinancial documents reviewed
Puts orphaned youth into self-governing groups of 60–100 for three years, then stops paying — and says so in writing.
Rwanda · Kenya · Malawi · Mozambique · +8 more
156× lower cost base than the US (Mozambique) · James 1:27
3 gifts of $50 cover one year in the empowerment programme for one young person. Yours is 49% of one.
$103 per year in the empowerment programme for one young person — 2025 program spending divided by 83,908 youth served.
Scripture & discipleshipFinancial documents reviewed
Scripture, Bible studies and church-planter training through local churches in 40+ countries.
Bangladesh · Ethiopia · Ghana · Haiti · +7 more
156× lower cost base than the US (Mozambique) · Romans 10:14, 17
$50 covers about 2 Bibles placed in people’s hands.
$21.22 per Bible placed in someone’s hands — FY2025 program spending divided by 984,197 Bibles shared.
Bible translationFinancial documents reviewed
Records the New Testament as audio in languages that have no written Scripture, then gives the recordings away.
Global · Africa · South Asia · Latin America · +1 more
Romans 10:14, 17
3,194 gifts of $50 cover one new language given a complete audio New Testament. Yours is 0.03% of one.
$159,691 per new language given a complete audio New Testament — FY2026 program spending divided by 293 new languages in which an audio New Testament was completed.
Disaster & displacementFinancial documents reviewed
Emergency food and water in ten countries, delivered almost entirely by staff from those countries.
Bangladesh · Bolivia · Cambodia · Dominican Republic · +7 more
79× lower cost base than the US (Uganda) · Isaiah 58:7
2 gifts of $50 cover one person reached with life-saving assistance in an emergency. Yours is 96% of one.
$52.32 per person reached with life-saving assistance in an emergency — FY2025 (year ended 30 September 2025) program spending divided by 1,754,292 people reached with life-saving assistance through emergency responses in 10 countries.
Children & familiesFinancial documents reviewed
Eight family houses on a Guatemalan mountainside, run by Guatemalans, funded by a four-person office in Illinois.
14× lower cost base than the US (Guatemala) · Psalm 68:5–6
167 gifts of $50 cover one year of family-based residential care for one child, US-donor share. Yours is 0.60% of one.
$8,313 per year of family-based residential care for one child, US-donor share — FY2025 (year ended 30 September 2025) program spending divided by 100 children living at Casa Bernabé.
Aviation & logisticsFinancial documents reviewed
Flies, trains and equips the aviation that Bible translation runs on — and more than half of what it spends is donated labour.
Papua New Guinea · Cameroon · Peru · Brazil · +1 more
48× lower cost base than the US (Cameroon) · Mark 16:15
23 gifts of $50 cover one flight hour. Yours is 4.4% of one.
$1,141 per flight hour — 2025 program spending divided by 6,203 flight hours.
Schools & literacyFinancial documents reviewed
Schools for abused and abandoned children in six countries, with audited accounts and a student count you can divide.
Guatemala · Haiti · Kenya · Lebanon · +2 more
74× lower cost base than the US (Zambia) · Isaiah 1:17
58 gifts of $50 cover one year of school for a student in a Kids Alive school. Yours is 1.7% of one.
$2,885 per year of school for a student in a Kids Alive school — 2024 program spending divided by 3,740 students receiving life-changing education.
DisabilityFinancial documents reviewed
Lifelong homes in Jamaica and four other countries for children and adults with disabilities nobody else will take.
Jamaica · Nicaragua · Dominican Republic · Zimbabwe · +1 more
148× lower cost base than the US (Malawi) · Luke 14:13–14
234 gifts of $50 cover one year of lifelong residential care for one person. Yours is 0.43% of one.
$11,663 per year of lifelong residential care for one person — CY2025 program spending divided by 700 children and adults living in MSC homes.
Gospel mediaFinancial documents reviewed
Four satellite channels made in the Middle East by Middle Eastern Christians — and it counts conversations, not coverage.
Middle East & North Africa · Egypt · Lebanon · Turkey · +1 more
27× lower cost base than the US (Egypt) · Romans 10:14
6 gifts of $50 cover one conversation with a viewer. Yours is 17% of one.
$287 per conversation with a viewer — 2025 total spending divided by 75,100 conversations with viewers.
Bible translationFinancial documents reviewed
Funds national translators to translate Scripture into their own languages, on fixed project budgets.
Global · Mali · Cameroon · Indonesia · +2 more
79× lower cost base than the US (Mali) · Isaiah 55:11
987 gifts of $50 cover one language engagement for a year. Yours is 0.10% of one.
$49,316 per language engagement for a year — FY2025 program spending divided by 1,434 active language engagements.
Children & familiesFinancial documents reviewed
Homes, schooling and vocational training for at-risk girls in Winneba, Ghana.
34× lower cost base than the US (Ghana) · Proverbs 31:8–9
540 gifts of $50 cover one year of care for a girl. Yours is 0.19% of one.
$26,954 per year of care for a girl — 2024 program spending divided by 77 Pearls in residential care.
Safe waterFinancial documents reviewed
Drills wells in the Central African Republic and then keeps paying to maintain them — and publishes the share still working.
Central African Republic · Ethiopia · Tanzania · Uganda · +1 more
159× lower cost base than the US (Central African Republic) · Matthew 25:35
987 gifts of $50 cover one water point installed. Yours is 0.10% of one.
$49,301 per water point installed — 2024 program spending divided by 223 water points installed.
Disaster & displacementFinancial documents reviewed
Ships donated humanitarian aid to refugees and displaced families through partners who were already there.
Uganda · Peru · India · Zambia · +7 more
370× lower cost base than the US (Burundi) · Hebrews 13:3
4 gifts of $50 cover one refugee or displaced person who received aid. Yours is 33% of one.
$151 per refugee or displaced person who received aid — FY2026 (year ended 31 March 2026) program spending divided by 198,990 refugees and displaced people who received aid.
Church-led fundFinancial documents reviewed
Global South archbishops decide which Anglican dioceses get funded; North American Anglicans raise the money and publish the grant on each project’s page.
Angola · Argentina · Brazil · Burundi · +27 more
370× lower cost base than the US (Burundi) · Romans 15:26–27
820 gifts of $50 cover one overseas organisation funded for a year. Yours is 0.12% of one.
$40,982 per overseas organisation funded for a year — FY2025 program spending divided by 51 overseas organisations receiving grants.
Evangelism & sendingFinancial documents reviewed
Sends monthly support to Asian evangelists and prints Bibles in their languages, and takes no cut for fundraising.
China · India · Pakistan · Nepal · +7 more
67× lower cost base than the US (Myanmar) · Romans 10:14–15
17 gifts of $50 cover one supported evangelist-year. Yours is 6.0% of one.
$833 per supported evangelist-year — 2025 program spending divided by 1,963 evangelists supported.
Scripture & discipleshipFinancial documents reviewed
Funds local believers to take printed Scripture to every home in their own country, house by house.
123× lower cost base than the US (DR Congo) · Romans 10:14–15
$50 covers about 6 Bibles and New Testaments put in people’s hands.
$7.68 per Bible or New Testament put in someone’s hands — 2025 program spending divided by 6,314,872 Bibles and New Testaments distributed.
Food & farmingFinancial documents reviewed
Packs 382 million fortified meals a year with American volunteers — and its audit shows a third of the cost is labour nobody paid for.
Matthew 25:35
$50 covers about 215 meals.
$0.23 per meal — 2026 program spending divided by 382,120,176 meals provided.
Work & livelihoodsFinancial documents reviewed
Trains church-based savings groups in ten countries for about $23 a member a year, because the members supply the capital.
Bolivia · Burundi · DR Congo · Kenya · +6 more
370× lower cost base than the US (Burundi) · Matthew 25:20–21
$50 covers about 2 members trained and supported for a year.
$23.33 per member trained and supported for a year — 2025 program spending divided by 59,253 savings group members served in the year.
Church plantingFinancial documents reviewed
A six-person office in Pennsylvania wiring grants to South Asian partners who support missionaries and plant churches.
India · Nepal · Bhutan · Bangladesh · +1 more
67× lower cost base than the US (Myanmar) · Matthew 28:19–20
24 gifts of $50 cover one church or house fellowship planted. Yours is 4.3% of one.
$1,160 per church or house fellowship planted — 2025 program spending divided by 274 churches and house fellowships planted.
Gospel mediaFinancial documents reviewed
Gospel film and video in thousands of languages, distributed by local partners. Its studios finished 99 new translations in 2025.
Matthew 28:19–20
920 gifts of $50 cover one film translated into one new language. Yours is 0.11% of one.
$45,990 per film translated into one new language — 2025 program spending divided by 99 translations of Jesus Film Project media completed.
Pastors & theological trainingFinancial documents reviewed
Three programs for Majority World pastors: preaching seminars, doctoral scholarships, and evangelical books in their own languages.
Global · Madagascar · Liberia · Peru · +1 more
159× lower cost base than the US (Madagascar) · Ephesians 4:11–13
297 gifts of $50 cover one doctoral student supported for a year. Yours is 0.34% of one.
$14,807 per doctoral student supported for a year — 2025 program spending divided by 103 PhD students supported, from 46 countries.
Children & familiesFinancial documents reviewed
Runs a 10,000-student school network and 125,000 meals a day in Haiti, through a country in armed collapse.
Haiti · Dominican Republic
44× lower cost base than the US (Haiti) · Matthew 25:35
42 gifts of $50 cover one year of school for a student. Yours is 2.4% of one.
$2,079 per year of school for a student — FY2025 (year ended 30 June 2025) program spending divided by 10,000 students in the Haiti school network.
Justice & anti-traffickingFinancial documents reviewed
Licenses a seven-week Bible course into 856 prisons in 35 countries and runs it through local volunteers.
Matthew 25:36
2 gifts of $50 cover one prisoner who completed the seven-week course. Yours is 56% of one.
$90.00 per prisoner who completed the seven-week course — 2025 program spending divided by 113,000 graduates of The Prisoner’s Journey.
Disaster & displacementFinancial documents reviewed
Flies field hospitals and food into war and famine zones, and runs the world’s largest shoebox gift programme.
Global · Sudan · Ukraine · Myanmar · +1 more
99× lower cost base than the US (Sudan) · Luke 10:33–35
$50 covers about 1 shoebox gift collected and distributed.
$44.96 per shoebox gift collected and distributed — 2025 program spending divided by 10,900,000 gift boxes collected from individuals.
Safe waterFinancial documents reviewed
Builds for-profit water utilities in West Africa and sells piped water to households living on about $2 a day.
Ghana · Uganda · Zambia · Sierra Leone
107× lower cost base than the US (Sierra Leone) · Matthew 25:35
17 gifts of $50 cover one household water connection. Yours is 6.1% of one.
$826 per household water connection — 2024 program spending divided by 7,766 household connections built.
Evangelism & sendingFinancial documents reviewed
Sends and supports 923 Baptist missionaries in 92 countries, and runs the hospitals some of them staff.
Global · Liberia · Togo · Bangladesh · +2 more
107× lower cost base than the US (Liberia) · Matthew 28:19–20
1,200 gifts of $50 cover one missionary-year on the field. Yours is 0.08% of one.
$59,989 per missionary-year on the field — 2025 program spending divided by 923 missionaries on the field.
Health & surgeryFinancial documents reviewed
Pays Christian mission hospitals in Africa to operate on patients who cannot pay, and buys the equipment they operate with.
Burundi · Cameroon · Ethiopia · Gabon · +7 more
370× lower cost base than the US (Burundi) · Luke 10:34–35
9 gifts of $50 cover one surgery sponsored through the SAFE programme. Yours is 12% of one.
$426 per surgery sponsored through the SAFE programme — 2025 program spending divided by 3,294 surgeries sponsored through SAFE.
Bible translationFinancial documents reviewed
Of more than 350 sign languages, one has a full Bible. This ministry funds and hosts the rest.
Revelation 7:9
No cost per outcome published — there is nothing here to divide.
We will not invent a figure for $50. What is missing is listed on the cause page.
DisabilityFinancial documents reviewed
Designs a $108 wheelchair for unpaved roads and ships it by the container to partners in 31 countries.
Luke 14:13–14
5 gifts of $50 cover one wheelchair delivered. Yours is 21% of one.
$239 per wheelchair delivered — 2025 program spending divided by 64,316 wheelchairs sent to 31 developing countries.
Pastors & theological trainingFinancial documents reviewed
Sends American pastors and professors to run on-site doctrine conferences for pastors in 90 countries. Posts its own 990s and audits; its only annual count of pastors trained is one sentence in a donor newsletter.
2 Timothy 2:2
18 gifts of $50 cover one pastor or church leader trained for a year. Yours is 5.7% of one.
$873 per pastor or church leader trained for a year — 2025 program spending divided by 10,000 indigenous pastors and leaders who received training.
Persecuted churchFinancial documents reviewed
An indigenous field team that screens individual cases of persecution in the Muslim world and pays for what each family needs — a relief kit, a safe house, a business, a funeral.
Middle East & North Africa · Central Asia · Afghanistan · Iran · +3 more
228× lower cost base than the US (Afghanistan) · Hebrews 13:3
7 gifts of $50 cover one Emergency Relief Kit delivered to a persecuted family. Yours is 16% of one.
$322 per Emergency Relief Kit delivered to a persecuted family — year to June 2025 program spending divided by 15,145 Emergency Relief Kits distributed.
Children & familiesFinancial documents reviewed
The ministry that invented international adoption now spends most of its money keeping children out of it.
Bulgaria · Cambodia · China · Colombia · +12 more
80× lower cost base than the US (Ethiopia) · Psalm 68:5–6
23 gifts of $50 cover one year of sponsorship for one child. Yours is 4.5% of one.
$1,120 per year of sponsorship for one child — 2025 program spending divided by 15,974 children who benefitted from the sponsorship programme.
Health & surgeryFinancial documents reviewed
Finds and treats leprosy and other neglected tropical diseases, and repairs the damage they have already done.
Benin · Bolivia · Cameroon · Côte d'Ivoire · +8 more
123× lower cost base than the US (DR Congo) · Matthew 8:2–3
27 gifts of $50 cover one patient given care for a neglected tropical disease. Yours is 3.8% of one.
$1,302 per patient given care for a neglected tropical disease — FYE June 2025 program spending divided by 9,963 patients admitted, leprosy consults, and/or people receiving care for neglected tropical diseases.
Children & familiesFinancial documents reviewed
Underwrites its own overhead from business profits so donations pass through whole — and the Form 990 still shows $1.98m of it.
Bolivia · Cambodia · Ethiopia · Guatemala · +13 more
107× lower cost base than the US (Liberia) · James 1:27
35 gifts of $50 cover one individual reached by the orphan care programme. Yours is 2.9% of one.
$1,717 per individual reached by the orphan care programme — 2024 program spending divided by 11,414 individuals reached, summed across seven regions.
Health & surgeryFinancial documents reviewed
Two hospital ships that dock in West and East Africa and operate for free.
Madagascar · Sierra Leone
159× lower cost base than the US (Madagascar) · Matthew 9:35–36
863 gifts of $50 cover one surgery. Yours is 0.12% of one.
$43,141 per surgery — 2025 program spending divided by 5,019 total surgeries.
Aviation & logisticsFinancial documents reviewed
Forty-two aircraft flying missionaries, doctors and Bible translators into places with no roads — and it counts every flight.
DR Congo · Ecuador · Haiti · Indonesia · +3 more
156× lower cost base than the US (Mozambique) · Romans 10:14–15
53 gifts of $50 cover one flight. Yours is 1.9% of one.
$2,637 per flight — 2024 program spending divided by 16,477 flights.
Church plantingFinancial documents reviewed
Grants to local church leaders in Eastern Europe and Southeast Asia to start churches in villages that have none.
Southeast Asia · East Asia · Eurasia · Europe · +1 more
Matthew 28:19–20
10 gifts of $50 cover one church started. Yours is 11% of one.
$454 per church started — FY2025 (1 Sep 2024 – 31 Aug 2025) program spending divided by 4,949 churches started.
Evangelism & sendingFinancial documents reviewed
Reformed sending agency placing 330 missionaries — doctors, church planters, teachers — into teams that mostly join work already running.
Burundi · DR Congo · Rwanda · Malawi · +13 more
370× lower cost base than the US (Burundi) · Acts 13:2–3
1,483 gifts of $50 cover one missionary-year on the field. Yours is 0.07% of one.
$74,129 per missionary-year on the field — FYE May 2025 program spending divided by 330 missionaries.
Bible translationFinancial documents reviewed
Publishes open-licensed translation resources so a local church can translate its own Bible without asking permission.
99× lower cost base than the US (Sudan) · Acts 8:30–31
No cost per outcome published — there is nothing here to divide.
We will not invent a figure for $50. What is missing is listed on the cause page.
Bible translationFinancial documents reviewed
The largest Bible translation funder in the United States, now mostly granting money to local churches doing the work.
Romans 10:14, 17
1,421 gifts of $50 cover one language engagement for a year. Yours is 0.07% of one.
$71,028 per language engagement for a year — FY2025 program spending divided by 2,918 total active language engagements.
Schools & literacyFinancial documents reviewed
Bible Clubs in 551 African public schools, child development centres in 11 countries — and an audit that carries a qualified opinion two years running.
Ghana · Togo · Benin · Nigeria · +6 more
107× lower cost base than the US (Sierra Leone) · Proverbs 22:6
2 gifts of $50 cover one child attending a weekly AMG Bible Club for a year. Yours is 69% of one.
$72.10 per child attending a weekly AMG Bible Club for a year — 2025 total spending divided by 143,000 students in 551 Bible Clubs across Africa.
Children & familiesFinancial documents reviewed
Raises abandoned children in Eswatini on a 2,500-acre farm that grows much of their food.
24× lower cost base than the US (Eswatini) · James 1:27
224 gifts of $50 cover one year of care for a child. Yours is 0.45% of one.
$11,170 per year of care for a child — 2024 program spending divided by 434 children in care.
Children & familiesFinancial documents reviewed
Residential care, therapy and clinics for children with severe disabilities in Jinja, Uganda.
79× lower cost base than the US (Uganda) · Psalm 68:5–6
19 gifts of $50 cover one year of care for a child. Yours is 5.5% of one.
$904 per year of care for a child — 2024 total spending divided by 100 children in residential care.
Disaster & displacementFinancial documents reviewed
Primary health care for refugees and displaced families in five countries, run by country teams.
Ethiopia · Sudan · Tanzania · Uganda · +2 more
99× lower cost base than the US (Sudan) · Luke 10:33–35
15 gifts of $50 cover one child under five treated for acute malnutrition. Yours is 7.1% of one.
$703 per child under five treated for acute malnutrition — 2025 program spending divided by 100,000 children under five treated for moderate or severe acute malnutrition.
Children & familiesFinancial documents reviewed
The US fundraising arm for Father Wasson’s nine-country network of children’s homes — 1,008 children living with NPH, and 242 sent home to family.
Bolivia · Dominican Republic · El Salvador · Guatemala · +5 more
44× lower cost base than the US (Haiti) · Matthew 18:5
168 gifts of $50 cover one year of residential care for one child, US-donor share. Yours is 0.60% of one.
$8,369 per year of residential care for one child, US-donor share — FY2025 (year ended 30 June 2025) program spending divided by 1,008 beneficiaries living with NPH.
Work & livelihoodsFinancial documents reviewed
Writes the savings-group and money-management curricula that other ministries deliver — and most of its own programmes are in the United States.
Nigeria · Philippines · Togo · United States
66× lower cost base than the US (Togo) · Genesis 2:15
48 gifts of $50 cover one person trained to run the material. Yours is 2.1% of one.
$2,392 per person trained to run the material — 2025 program spending divided by 1,000 people trained in the year.
Pastors & theological trainingFinancial documents reviewed
Sends theologically trained teachers to 37 training sites in 24 countries. Spends $7 million a year and publishes no financial document of its own.
Global · Uganda · Kenya · Ethiopia · +2 more
80× lower cost base than the US (Ethiopia) · Ephesians 4:11–13
1,316 gifts of $50 cover one training session held. Yours is 0.08% of one.
$65,752 per training session held — 2024 program spending divided by 98 training sessions held at 35 sites, foreign and domestic.
Health & surgeryFinancial documents reviewed
Sends doctors and nurses to mission hospitals for at least three years, and is starting to hire African surgeons instead.
Angola · Bangladesh · Cambodia · Chad · +16 more
148× lower cost base than the US (Malawi) · Luke 10:1–2
82 gifts of $50 cover one surgery performed by a surgeon Christian Health Service Corps employs. Yours is 1.2% of one.
$4,098 per surgery performed by a surgeon Christian Health Service Corps employs — FYE September 2025 program spending divided by 1,131 patient surgeries performed by CHSC national physicians.
Evangelism & sendingFinancial documents reviewed
Recruits, trains and sends American workers to Muslim peoples — the expensive model, and the one that goes where nobody local can be supported.
Middle East & North Africa · Africa · Eurasia · Europe · +2 more
Romans 10:14–15
1,285 gifts of $50 cover one US-sent worker-year on the field. Yours is 0.08% of one.
$64,228 per US-sent worker-year on the field — FYE June 2025 program spending divided by 575 long-term US-sent workers on the field.
Persecuted churchFinancial documents reviewed
Thirty years of direct aid to persecuted Christians through local partners, plus a newsroom and a lobbying operation — funded from a reserve that has fallen by two thirds in three years.
Africa · Middle East & North Africa · South Asia · Southeast Asia · +6 more
123× lower cost base than the US (Syria) · Hebrews 13:3
8 gifts of $50 cover one persecuted Christian given direct aid. Yours is 14% of one.
$359 per persecuted Christian given direct aid — 2025 total spending divided by 11,380 Christians given direct aid.
Schools & literacyFinancial documents reviewed
Writes reading primers out of Bible text, gives them away, and trains the volunteers who teach from them. A $808,483 ministry reporting 71,112 new readers.
Benin · Burkina Faso · Republic of Congo · DR Congo · +13 more
148× lower cost base than the US (Malawi) · Deuteronomy 6:6–7
17 gifts of $50 cover one teacher trained to run a literacy class. Yours is 6.2% of one.
$813 per teacher trained to run a literacy class — 2025 total spending divided by 995 teachers trained.
Health & surgeryFinancial documents reviewed
Funds 40 clinics run by local Christian doctors in their own countries, and deliberately sends no Americans to work in them.
Benin · Bolivia · Cameroon · Chad · +24 more
118× lower cost base than the US (Niger) · Colossians 4:14
1,180 gifts of $50 cover one indigenous health ministry supported for a year. Yours is 0.08% of one.
$58,974 per indigenous health ministry supported for a year — 2025 program spending divided by 40 foreign ministries supported.
Pastors & theological trainingFinancial documents reviewed
A seminary with no campus: national coordinators run self-financing study centres on free Reformed curriculum in thirteen languages, on a head-office budget of $377,426.
6.5× lower cost base than the US (Mexico) · 2 Timothy 2:15
22 gifts of $50 cover one degree or certificate earned. Yours is 4.6% of one.
$1,079 per degree or certificate earned — 2025 program spending divided by 300 people who earned certificates or theological degrees, English- and Spanish-language programmes.
Pastors & theological trainingFinancial documents reviewed
Gives away a full seminary curriculum in 28 languages, taught by local leaders through 651 partner organisations.
Global · Mongolia · Zambia
74× lower cost base than the US (Zambia) · 2 Timothy 2:2
27 gifts of $50 cover one student enrolled in the Thirdmill Institute. Yours is 3.7% of one.
$1,341 per student enrolled in the Thirdmill Institute — two years to June 2023 total spending divided by 9,034 students served by the Thirdmill Institute in its first two years.
Church-led fundFinancial documents reviewed
An Atlanta church network’s annual offering, given away whole to 83 vetted nonprofits as 242 named projects.
United States · Costa Rica · Dominican Republic · El Salvador · +9 more
79× lower cost base than the US (Uganda) · 1 Timothy 6:18–19
806 gifts of $50 cover one project funded at a vetted nonprofit partner. Yours is 0.12% of one.
$40,272 per project funded at a vetted nonprofit partner — 2024 program spending divided by 242 projects funded at vetted nonprofit partners.
Food & farmingFinancial documents reviewed
American farmers grow a crop, sell it, and send the proceeds to teach smallholders overseas — a model it adopted after concluding that shipping the grain itself would ruin local markets.
Bolivia · Guatemala · Kenya · Malawi · +2 more
148× lower cost base than the US (Malawi) · Isaiah 58:10
1,041 gifts of $50 cover one agricultural development programme funded for a year. Yours is 0.10% of one.
$52,009 per agricultural development programme funded for a year — 2026 program spending divided by 51 agricultural development programmes funded in 30 countries.
Persecuted churchFinancial documents reviewed
A $19 million relief and Bible-distribution ministry that counts 2.2 million lives touched and publishes no way to divide a dollar into any of them.
Africa · Central Asia · East Asia · Latin America · +15 more
228× lower cost base than the US (Afghanistan) · 1 Corinthians 12:26
No cost per outcome published — there is nothing here to divide.
We will not invent a figure for $50. What is missing is listed on the cause page.
Food & farmingMinistry figures only
Feeds more than three million children a daily school meal, and publishes what a year of it actually cost — in pounds, not the dollars you give.
Malawi · Zambia · Zimbabwe · Ethiopia · +3 more
156× lower cost base than the US (Mozambique) · Matthew 25:35
No cost per outcome published — there is nothing here to divide.
We will not invent a figure for $50. What is missing is listed on the cause page.
Justice & anti-traffickingMinistry figures only
Sends undercover agents into brothels and border crossings to get children out, then funds their aftercare.
Cambodia · Dominican Republic · Kenya · Nepal · +5 more
79× lower cost base than the US (Uganda) · Psalm 82:3–4
No cost per outcome published — there is nothing here to divide.
We will not invent a figure for $50. What is missing is listed on the cause page.
Disaster & displacementMinistry figures only
Funds the Nazarene congregation that is already in the village when the disaster hits.
DR Congo · Myanmar · Ukraine · Liberia · +6 more
148× lower cost base than the US (Malawi) · Matthew 25:35–36
No cost per outcome published — there is nothing here to divide.
We will not invent a figure for $50. What is missing is listed on the cause page.
Work & livelihoodsMinistry figures only
Backs locally governed business-training institutions in 30-odd countries. Publishes big numbers and never says what period they cover.
Africa · Latin America · South Asia · Southeast Asia · +1 more
1 Thessalonians 4:11–12
No cost per outcome published — there is nothing here to divide.
We will not invent a figure for $50. What is missing is listed on the cause page.
Work & livelihoodsMinistry figures only
Savings groups and discipleship in northern Uganda and South Sudan. Members have saved $14.6 million of their own money; every count published is a lifetime total.
85× lower cost base than the US (South Sudan) · Proverbs 6:6–8
No cost per outcome published — there is nothing here to divide.
We will not invent a figure for $50. What is missing is listed on the cause page.
Justice & anti-traffickingMinistry figures only
Runs a 35-acre children’s home in Thailand and rides along with Los Angeles police as victim advocates.
Thailand · United States · Mexico · Japan · +1 more
12× lower cost base than the US (Thailand) · Psalm 82:3–4
No cost per outcome published — there is nothing here to divide.
We will not invent a figure for $50. What is missing is listed on the cause page.
Church plantingMinistry figures only
Funds indigenous ministries in their own countries instead of sending missionaries.
Africa · East Asia · Eurasia · Europe · +4 more
Matthew 9:37–38
No cost per outcome published — there is nothing here to divide.
We will not invent a figure for $50. What is missing is listed on the cause page.
Gospel mediaMinistry figures only
Grants most of its budget to 19 nationally run broadcasting offices across Asia, and publishes what each one received.
Cambodia · China · India · Indonesia · +12 more
67× lower cost base than the US (Myanmar) · Mark 16:15
No cost per outcome published — there is nothing here to divide.
We will not invent a figure for $50. What is missing is listed on the cause page.
Evangelism & sendingMinistry figures only
Supports African and Cuban evangelists instead of sending Americans, and publishes enormous numbers with no dollar figures beside them.
Kenya · Malawi · Uganda · Rwanda · +6 more
370× lower cost base than the US (Burundi) · Romans 10:14–15
No cost per outcome published — there is nothing here to divide.
We will not invent a figure for $50. What is missing is listed on the cause page.
Work & livelihoodsMinistry figures only
East African business accelerator with the best outcome survey in this category and no published financial statements at all.
79× lower cost base than the US (Uganda) · Mark 4:30–32
No cost per outcome published — there is nothing here to divide.
We will not invent a figure for $50. What is missing is listed on the cause page.
Church-led fundMinistry figures only
A San Francisco church’s annual fund for 23 vetted local and global partners.
United States · Australia · England · Eswatini · +6 more
34× lower cost base than the US (Ghana) · Acts 13:2–3
No cost per outcome published — there is nothing here to divide.
We will not invent a figure for $50. What is missing is listed on the cause page.
Schools & literacyMinistry figures only
One boarding school in Jinja, Uganda, with an $8.2 million budget — and not one dated student count in any document it publishes.
79× lower cost base than the US (Uganda) · Deuteronomy 6:6–7
No cost per outcome published — there is nothing here to divide.
We will not invent a figure for $50. What is missing is listed on the cause page.
Evangelism & sendingMinistry figures only
Sends workers to 26 European nations on the argument that Europe is now unreached. Publishes a full audit and no count of anything.
Albania · Austria · Belgium · Bulgaria · +22 more
11× lower cost base than the US (Kosovo) · Acts 16:9–10
No cost per outcome published — there is nothing here to divide.
We will not invent a figure for $50. What is missing is listed on the cause page.
Health & surgeryMinistry figures only
Twenty programmes on one campus in eastern Guatemala, and no single unit you can put a price on.
14× lower cost base than the US (Guatemala) · Luke 10:33–34
No cost per outcome published — there is nothing here to divide.
We will not invent a figure for $50. What is missing is listed on the cause page.
DisabilityMinistry figures only
Collects used wheelchairs, has prisoners restore them, and sends volunteer teams to fit them overseas.
Luke 14:13–14
No cost per outcome published — there is nothing here to divide.
We will not invent a figure for $50. What is missing is listed on the cause page.
Children & familiesMinistry figures only
A small North Carolina office funding Guatemalan leaders in Guatemala City’s poorest neighbourhoods — and ending one-to-one child sponsorship on purpose.
14× lower cost base than the US (Guatemala) · Jeremiah 29:7
No cost per outcome published — there is nothing here to divide.
We will not invent a figure for $50. What is missing is listed on the cause page.
Persecuted churchMinistry figures only
Seventy years of Bibles, training and relief for persecuted Christians — and no consolidated accounts anywhere.
Hebrews 13:3
No cost per outcome published — there is nothing here to divide.
We will not invent a figure for $50. What is missing is listed on the cause page.
Evangelism & sendingMinistry figures only
A 135-year-old sending agency that places workers inside existing national churches — and publishes no financial statement of its own.
Africa · Latin America · East Asia · South Asia · +3 more
Acts 13:2–3
No cost per outcome published — there is nothing here to divide.
We will not invent a figure for $50. What is missing is listed on the cause page.
Evangelism & sendingMinistry figures only
Sends its entire budget as a single annual grant to a British sister charity, which pays unnamed Indian partners to send village church planters at $80 a month.
32× lower cost base than the US (India) · Romans 10:14–15
No cost per outcome published — there is nothing here to divide.
We will not invent a figure for $50. What is missing is listed on the cause page.
Church plantingMinistry figures only
Trains local disciple-makers to plant churches that plant churches.
Ethiopia · Kenya · Mexico · South Asia
80× lower cost base than the US (Ethiopia) · 2 Timothy 2:2
No cost per outcome published — there is nothing here to divide.
We will not invent a figure for $50. What is missing is listed on the cause page.
Persecuted churchMinistry figures only
Bibles, aid and front-line worker support for Christians under persecution in 50+ nations.
Ethiopia · Iran · Nigeria · Syria
123× lower cost base than the US (Syria) · Hebrews 13:3
No cost per outcome published — there is nothing here to divide.
We will not invent a figure for $50. What is missing is listed on the cause page.
Gospel mediaMinistry figures only
Seventy years of shortwave and satellite broadcasting into closed countries — and a donation page that prices a soul at a penny.
Mark 16:15
No cost per outcome published — there is nothing here to divide.
We will not invent a figure for $50. What is missing is listed on the cause page.
Evangelism & sendingMinistry figures only
Plants churches among least-reached Buddhists, Hindus and Muslims. Its worker count has fallen by more than a third since its last published annual report.
Central Asia · South Asia · Southeast Asia · East Asia · +2 more
Romans 15:20–21
No cost per outcome published — there is nothing here to divide.
We will not invent a figure for $50. What is missing is listed on the cause page.
Disaster & displacementMinistry figures only
Volunteers in Nebraska pack shipping containers of food, clothing and medical equipment for 23 countries.
Ethiopia · Ghana · Guatemala · Georgia · +13 more
159× lower cost base than the US (Madagascar) · Isaiah 58:7
No cost per outcome published — there is nothing here to divide.
We will not invent a figure for $50. What is missing is listed on the cause page.
Pastors & theological trainingMinistry figures only
Gives away a twenty-course theological curriculum in dozens of languages and asks local churches to teach it themselves. Counts downloads, not students.
2 Timothy 2:2
No cost per outcome published — there is nothing here to divide.
We will not invent a figure for $50. What is missing is listed on the cause page.