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GLOBAL HEALTH MINISTRIES

EIN 36-3532234 MINNEAPOLIS, MN

Largest nonprofits in Minnesota

Revenue 2025
$9,877,637
Expenses 2025
$11,248,530

Program services were 93.4% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
Q300
Classification
1000
Street
7831 HICKORY ST NE

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 · 2025

Mission

GLOBAL HEALTH MINISTRIES BUILDS PARTNERSHIPS TO BENEFIT LUTHERAN EFFORTS IN HEALTH CARE FOR SOME OF THE WORLD'S MOST VULNERABLE PEOPLE. GHM ACCOMPLISHES THIS MISSION WITH THREE BROAD STRATEGIES: SHIPPING OF MEDICAL SUPPLIES, GRASSROOTS EFFORTS AND LEADERSHIP TRAINING.

  • SHIPPING MEDICAL SUPPLIES AND EQUIPMENT: MOST MISSION HOSPITALS LACK IMPORTANT MEDICAL EQUIPMENT AND EVEN BASIC SUPPLIES. GLOBAL HEALTH MINISTRIES (GHM) GATHERS DONATED MEDICAL ITEMS, FROM EXAM GLOVES TO ULTRASOUNDS, AND MATCHES THEM TO REQUESTS FROM PARTNERS IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES. WE PURCHASE AND SHIP NEW EQUIPMENT AS WELL, MAKING QUALITY HEALTH CARE ACCESSIBLE FOR SOME OF THE WORLD'S MOST VULNERABLE PEOPLE. IN 2025 GHM SHIPPED 16 SEA CONTAINERS IN SUPPORT OF HOSPITALS AND CLINICS IN FOUR COUNTRIES. FIFTEEN TRAVELERS HAND CARRIED MEDICAL SUPPLIES AND EQUIPMENT IN TWENTY FOUR SUITCASES TO NINE DIFFERENT COUNTRIES.

    Expenses $7,585,324 · Grants $7,136,475 · Revenue $83,220

  • GRASSROOTS EFFORTS: GHM SUPPORTS EFFORTS TO TRAIN AND SUSTAIN COMMUNITY HEALTH WORKERS (CHW) TO BUILD CAPACITY IN LOWER & MIDDLE INCOME COUNTRIES TO IMPROVE HEALTH AND EFFECT SUSTAINABLE AND ENDURING CHANGE. IN 2025, GHM SUPPORTED CHW PROGRAMS IN EL SALVADOR, MADAGASCAR, NICARAGUA, NIGERIA, AND TANZANIA.

    Expenses $2,162,847 · Grants $2,032,242

  • LEADERSHIP TRAINING: UPON REQUEST, GHM OFFERS CONSULTANTS IN GOVERNANCE, MANAGEMENT, AND LEADERSHIP FOR HEALTH LEADERS IN THE DEVELOPING WORLD, THROUGH OUR CONSULTING DEPARTMENT. IN 2025, GHM CONDUCTED 14 CONSULTATIONS IN 8 COUNTRIES AND IS ENHANCING LONG-TERM RELATIONSHIPS IN SEVERAL PARTNER COUNTRIES. GHM FUNDED TRAINING & SCHOLARSHIPS FOR 1,451 PEOPLE IN FIVE COUNTRIES.

    Expenses $760,605 · Grants $714,851

As filed on the 2025 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Rev Douglas Cox

    FORMER E.D.

    Total calculated
    $135,434
    From this org
    $72,201
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $63,233
    Hours/week
    40

  • Bart Oothoudt

    DIRECTOR OF

    Total calculated
    $119,220
    From this org
    $94,656
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $24,564
    Hours/week
    40

  • Diane Campeau

    INTERIM E.D.

    Total calculated
    $47,520
    From this org
    $47,520
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    8

  • Arndt Braaten

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Peter Getts

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Glen Holt

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Sarah Iverson

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Lon Kightlinger

    VICE PRESIDE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Allen Klingsporn

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Rev Haemin Lee

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Eliah Madukull

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Mary Mertens

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Lilly Mukoka

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Karen Plager

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Fehy Rabemahefa

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Gina Raderalazasoa

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Tim Rietz

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • John Toso

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Michael Toso

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Brooke Vrieze

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Rev David Zellmer

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Heather Robinson

    EXECUTIVE DI

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

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

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $9,877,637
    Expenses
    $11,248,530
    Contributions
    $9,571,771
    Grants paid
    $9,884,079
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $9,126,019
    Expenses
    $7,986,180
    Contributions
    $8,682,222
    Grants paid
    $6,688,024
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $8,571,834
    Expenses
    $7,370,996
    Contributions
    $8,158,541
    Grants paid
    $6,168,060
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $6,803,629
    Expenses
    $7,519,790
    Contributions
    $7,131,202
    Grants paid
    $6,305,425

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

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $5,877,190
    Expenses
    $5,408,303
    Assets (EOY)
    $6,370,809

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $5,592,645
    Expenses
    $4,514,253
    Assets (EOY)
    $5,903,335

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,973,954
    Expenses
    $4,595,189
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,856,121

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.

Grants made

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Grants received

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

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 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.