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GLOBAL ACTION

EIN 84-1471157 WHEATON, IL

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Revenue 2023
$1,050,186
Expenses 2023
$1,069,222

Program services were 74.2% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
X21
Classification
7000
Street
PO BOX 117

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2023

Mission

GLOBAL ACTION IS A NONPROFIT RELIGIOUS ORGANIZATION, INCORPORATED IN 1998, WHOSE PURPOSE IS TO PROCLAIM THE KINGDOM OF GOD IN WORD AND DEED TO PEOPLE AROUND THE WORLD AND SERVE THE CHURCH BY EMPOWERING, TRAINING, MOTIVATING, AND MOBILIZING ITS PEOPLE SO THAT THEY BECOME FULLY DEVOTED FOLLOWERS OF CHRIST.

  • GLOBAL ACTION'S TRAINING PROGRAM IS CALLED "FOUNDATIONS". THE PROGRAM EQUIPS PASTORS AND LEADERS, THE VAST MAJORITY OF WHOM HAVE HAD NO FORMAL BIBLICAL TRAINING. IT IS A 9-MONTH COURSE THAT TEACHES BIBLICAL FOUNDATIONS AND LEADERSHIP, THROUGH A NON-DENOMINATIONAL FRAMEWORK. THE GOAL IS MULTIPLACTION AND COMMUNITY TRANSFORMATION IN THAT THESE PASTORS AND LEADERS THEN TRAIN OTHERS IN THEIR TOWNS AND VILLAGES. COURSE ARE TAUGHT IN LATIN AMERICA, EASTERN EUROPE, AFRICA AND CENTRAL ASIA.

    Expenses $351,095 · Grants $541,061

  • GLOBAL ACTION PARTNERS WITH ORGANIZATIONS OR INDIVIDUALS IN FOUR REGIONAL LOCATIONS. GLOBAL ACTION PROVIDES MINISTRY AND PROJECT SUPPORT FOR EACH PARTNER AS PART OF IT'S PROGRAM SERVICES, THIS SUPPORT ALLOWS THE PARTNER TO HIRE LOCALLY THEREBY SUPPORTING THE LOCAL COMMUNITY (VARIOUS PROJECT AREA) AS PART OF ITS OUTREACH.

    Expenses $442,171

As filed on the 2023 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2023

As listed in Part VII of the 2023 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Robert Smith

    BOARD CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Brian Banks

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Paul Knier

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Steve Dewitt

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Scott Dickson

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Barry Fluth

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Nikki Green

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Jw Oliver

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Jeff Peterson

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Jp Wilson

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Tom McAdam

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Dr Lionel Young

    EVP & CHIEF DEV. OFFICER

    Total calculated
    $87,969
    From this org
    $83,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $4,969
    Hours/week
    40
  • Richard Thompson

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $16,000
    From this org
    $16,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    10
  • Rich Smith

    CFO

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    20

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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,050,186
    Expenses
    $1,069,222
    Contributions
    $1,078,569
    Grants paid
    $541,061
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $963,752
    Expenses
    $1,064,114
    Contributions
    $976,567
    Grants paid
    $230,133

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2023 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported
  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,134,157
    Expenses
    $832,184
    Assets (EOY)
    $485,550
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $769,084
    Expenses
    $730,388
    Assets (EOY)
    $195,178
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $679,383
    Expenses
    $651,647
    Assets (EOY)
    $201,822
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $717,485
    Expenses
    $738,672
    Assets (EOY)
    $127,879
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $594,356
    Expenses
    $512,868
    Assets (EOY)
    $140,520
  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $502,959
    Expenses
    $440,176
    Assets (EOY)
    $164,542
  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $633,672
    Expenses
    $461,996
    Assets (EOY)
    $122,901
  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $716,439
    Expenses
    $490,104
    Assets (EOY)
    $133,172
  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $671,029
    Expenses
    $615,101
    Assets (EOY)
    $100,714

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Taxable family

From Schedule R Parts I, III and IV: entities that legally are the filer, and taxable partnerships, corporations and trusts it is related to. These record ownership and control, not shared board members or money.

Disregarded entities on its 2023 return

  • GLOBAL ACTION FOUNDATION COSTA RICA

    TO PROCLAIM AND PROMOTE THE WORD OF GOD, TO EMPOWER THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH · CS · income $0 · assets $250

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2023, the newest we have parsed for this organization.