Form 990 for tax year 2024

Totals

Total revenue

$4,853,288

Total expenses

$4,927,374

Contributions and grants received

$1,511,146

Grants paid

$285,545

Program service revenue

$2,855,165

Investment income

$397,494

Other revenue

$89,483

Total assets, end of year

$15,000,629

Total liabilities, end of year

$1,943,667

Net assets or fund balances, end of year

$13,056,962

Program services expenses (Part IX)

$4,085,864

Management and general expenses

$841,510

Fundraising expenses

$0

Program service expenses (Part III)

$4,085,864

Program services were 82.9% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

Line items

Every line the filer filed in Parts VIII, IX and X, as filed and in filed order. Blank columns are left out, and the lines are not forced to add up to the totals above.

Mission and programs · 2024

• Christian Religious Program: The purpose of Woman's Missionary Union (WMU) is making disciples of Jesus who live on mission. WMU seeks to cultivate the characteristics of a missional person-one who learns about missions, prays for missions, supports missions, does missions and tells others about Jesus. Avenues for missions involvement include missions discipleship, compassion ministries and leadership development. Missions Discipleship-From preschoolers through adults, WMU helps inform, inspire, and involve members of WMU age-level groups in missions. In 2024-25, WMU created and distributed 8 subscription items, including periodicals and resources kits, with an average circulation of approximately 89,068. WMU encourages greater missions involvement and nurtures all ages in missions discipleship through channels such as publications, products, resources, videos, blog posts, and more. In 2025, we built and launched a new wmu.com and overhauled our fulfillment system to better serve customers and increase engagement. Ongoing missions discipleship through WMU develops believers who understand God's mission in the world, leading to devoted Christians who are passionate about sharing the love of Christ with others. Lottie Moon Christmas Offering for International Missions-In 2024, WMU helped raise $207.2 million-the highest total in the offering's 136-year history-for the Lottie Moon Christmas Offering for International Missions. Since initiating the first offering in 1888, WMU has helped raise more than $5.8 billion through this effort. The offering represents more than half of IMB's total annual support. Every penny given to the offering goes directly to support missionaries, including housing, training, education, and healthcare. Annie Armstrong Easter Offering for North American Missions - In 2025, WMU helped raise $71.2 million-the second-highest amount given-for missions work in North America through the Annie Armstrong Easter Offering. Since 1907, when official reporting began for the home missions offering started by WMU, receipts total more than $2.3 billion through 2025. All of the funds raised through this offering go directly to NAMB to support field personnel and supplies nearly half of their total annual revenue. Compassion Ministries-WMU offers a variety of ways to be involved in hands-on missions efforts through ministries such as Pure Water, Pure Love; Christian Job Corps; World Crafts; and Project HELPSM: Mental Health. Both our domestic and international reach continue to grow through these ministries as lives are transformed. We have more than 90 Christian Women's Job Corps/Christian Men's Job Corps sites across the US, as well as CWJC sites in South Africa, Uganda, and Mexico. Christian Job Corps sites offer classes, resources, mentoring, Bible study, and more as participants gain self-confidence, purpose, direction, and hope for the future. World Crafts helps develop sustainable, fair-trade businesses by partnering with artisan groups worldwide and bringing their handcrafted products to market. These partnerships empower artisans to meet the physical, emotional, and spiritual needs of their communities, often providing safe, dignified employment for women at risk of exploitation, including those who have escaped human trafficking. With renewed leadership in product development, World Crafts is entering a season of growth-expanding artisan partnerships, field testing new designs, and preparing to launch new products from new and existing groups. This strategy advances our mission to create sustainable income opportunities and connect more customers to products with purpose. Project HELP is an initiative of WMU that identifies a critical issue, seeks to raise the level of awareness of that issue, and provides practical approaches anyone can implement to open the door for meeting needs and sharing the gospel. Since 2022, WMU has provided resources to address the issue of mental health, including an online course entitled Mental Health: The Church's Response, training in Mental Health First Aid, a book entitled Joyful Sorrow, articles, blogs posts and more. Missionary housing is an additional ministry of WMU in which we administer housing for Southern Baptist missionaries while they are on stateside assignment. We maintain a database of nearly 700 houses made available by churches, associations, and individuals and make this information available to missionaries on a secure website. Leadership Development-WMU offers a variety of opportunities for discovering and expanding one's leadership skills and spiritual gifts through online courses, print and digital resources, and in-person trainings. WMU's Christian Women's Leadership Center (CWLC) is one approach to leadership development in which online courses are self-paced and on demand. Joining the line-up of CWLC courses related to missional foundations, this year we introduced two new courses: The Story of Missions and Spiritual Disciplines. We also revised a course related to CWLC leadership foundations entitled Women Leaders of the Past. Two new courses were launched to further engage leaders in missions discipleship. They are RA: An Overview and Counter-Culture for Students. In addition, two online courses were created exclusively for our board members to help them understand their role and responsibilities.

  Expenses $3,654,959 · Grants $7,500 · Revenue $2,795,893

• 2) Water Works: Pure Water, Pure Love-During the 2024-25 fiscal year, WMU provided more than 1,700 water filters and replacement parts to Southern Baptist missionaries and missions teams. WMU awarded 10 grants totaling $280,976 to supply clean water resources in Southeast Asia, Liberia, Malawi, South Sudan, and Uganda; and to meet emergency water needs including providing three water tanker trucks for Send Relief, bottled water in North Carolina and South Carolina following Hurricane Helene, and bottled water in Texas due to severe drought.

  Expenses $430,905 · Grants $278,045 · Revenue $252,409

As filed on the 2024 return.

Listed in Part VII

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those.

Grants on this return

• Send Relief

  $80,000

  Purchase of two water tank trailers

• First Baptist Church Trussville AL

  $57,045

  Partial funding for drilling two wells in South Sudan

• Send Relief

  $40,000

  Purchase of one water tank trailer

• Brewster Road Community Church

  $30,000

  Funding for water well, two tanks and a water tower in Liberia

• The Orchard Church

  $23,000

  Funding to drill a water well at school in Uganda

• IMB Resources

  $18,000

  Ceramic water filters for distribution to homes in Indonesia

• Live Love Ministries

  $15,000

  Funding to drill a water well at school in Malawi

• Baptists on Mission

  $10,000

  Bottled water - Hurricane Helene Disaster Relief

Related organizations on this return

Schedule R Part II: tax-exempt organizations related to the filer by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

• WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION FOUNDATION

  501(c)(3) · TO FACILITATE THE MAKING OF GIFTS AND DONATIONS. · AL

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Provenance

Return type

form_990

Tax year

2024

Filed

4 June 2026

IRS schema version

2024v5.1

Source object

202631559349300643

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