Reliant Mission

What Reliant Mission does

Reliant Mission, Inc. (publicly branded as "Reliant") is a US-based, independent Christian non-profit organization founded in 1989 and headquartered in Orlando, Florida. The organization partners with missional churches and Gospel-centered ministries to mobilize and support workers for the Great Commission. Its core product is the "Go Process," a structured five-step program (Prepare, Application & Assessment, Fundraising Training, Build Your Team, and Live Your Calling) that takes individuals from initial calling through to active ministry deployment.

Reliant functions as a financial and operational intermediary between donors, local churches, and the 800+ support-based ministry workers it serves. Missionaries are responsible for raising 100% of their personal support goal via donations, with Reliant administering payroll, benefits, donor management, and cross-cultural readiness assessment (the latter through its partnership with International Personnel Consultants). The platform surface includes a Giving Dashboard for donors, a LifeLink automatic giving service, and multiple giving modalities (check, card, ACH, stocks/securities via Charles Schwab, and cryptocurrency). Infrastructure dependencies are limited to payment processing (IATS Payments), brokerage (Charles Schwab), and SSL security (GeoTrust).

Commercially, Reliant is a donation-funded non-profit governed by an independent board and ECFA-accredited since 1992. It does not charge missionaries direct fees; rather, approximately 10% of each missionary's support goal flows to Reliant's central operations. Its go-to-market is almost entirely channel-driven: a network of 100+ partner churches and ministry organizations across four verticals (US Churches, Collegiate Church Networks, International Partners, and Residencies/Internships) commissions workers who then onboard through Reliant. The New York-listed competitive set includes other evangelical mission agencies, but Reliant's distinguishing structural choice is its "third category" positioning — neither a traditional para-church nor a sending church — anchored by multi-decade institutional trust signals and formalized assessment infrastructure.

Name

Reliant Mission

Legal name

Reliant Mission, Inc.

Website

https://reliant.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

1989

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

501–1,000 employees

Short description

Reliant Mission is a non-profit ministry support organization that partners with churches and ministries to mobilize and employ 800+ support-based missionaries via a five-step process, administering payroll, benefits, and donor management funded by charitable donations.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Missionary Support Services

NAICS

Religious Organizations (8131), Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations (813), Civic and Social Organizations (813410)

SIC

Services-Social Services (8300), Services-Membership Organizations (8600)

akta.pro primary industry

Faith-Based Missions & Evangelism Organizations (Domestic & International) (BPAGAJAE)

akta.pro secondary industry

Faith-Based Humanitarian Aid & Relief Ministries (BPAGAJAF)

Keywords

• Missionary mobilization services
• Donor management platform
• Ministry support agency
• Fundraising training services
• Church planting partnerships

Headquarters

HQ city

Orlando

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Charitable Giving/Donations: Reliant serves as a hub between local churches, financial partners, and missionaries. Missionaries are responsible to raise 100% of their support goal through donations from individuals and churches. The support goal covers approved missionary salary, medical/dental insurances, ministry travel expenses, approved ministry-related tools and materials, educational expenses, and a buffer for gifts that may not materialize.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels2 records

Core offering

Reliant Mission partners with churches and ministries to mobilize and support missionaries and church planters through a structured 5-step Go Process. The organization provides back-office services including donor management, payroll processing, benefits administration, and fundraising training for support-based workers who raise their own financial support. Approximately 10% of all funds raised goes to Reliant's operational costs.

Product overview

Reliant Mission offers a comprehensive ministry support mobilization platform designed to help churches and Gospel-centered ministries recruit, assess, train, and support missionaries who raise their own financial support. The core offering consists of the 'Go Process' - a structured five-step program covering Prepare, Application and Assessment, Fundraising Training, Build Your Team, and Live Your Calling. Supporting this are donor management tools including a Giving Dashboard, LifeLink automatic giving service, and multiple giving options (check, credit card, direct debit, stocks/securities, and cryptocurrency). The organization works with over 800 ministry workers and partners with various church and ministry types including US churches, collegiate networks, international ministries, and residency programs.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Go Process Support-Based Worker Mobilization

Named customers1 record

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration3 records

Partnerships

Five partnerships are on record, tiered core, minor and supporting.

• US Churches and MinistriescoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorLocal churches that partner with Reliant to commission and spiritually oversee ministry workers. Churches must be enthusiastically ready and willing to support the ministry work. The church partnership is the first assessment in Reliant's process.
• Collegiate Church Network and Campus ChurchescoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorChurch networks focused on major university campuses where traditional funding models do not produce sufficient funds to support ministers, relying on generous gifts of the wider Body of Christ.
• International PartnerscoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorInternational ministry partners working outside the US who require additional assessment on cross-cultural flexibility and mental health through International Personnel Consultants.
• Residencies and Internships ProgramsminorChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorShort-term ministry programs with abbreviated assessment processes for terms less than nine months.
• International Personnel ConsultantssupportingStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartner organization providing cross-cultural flexibility and mental health assessment for international missionaries through an additional 4-6 week process.

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• Cru (Campus Crusade for Christ): One of the largest U.S.-based interdenominational evangelical mission organizations, mobilizing and supporting missionaries and campus ministers globally. Directly comparable to Reliant in mission mobilization model and donor-supported worker structure.
• Pioneers: Mission-sending agency mobilizing church-planting teams among unreached people groups. Directly comparable to Reliant in mobilizing support-based missionaries and partnering with sending churches.
• SEND International: Interdenominational evangelical mission agency mobilizing church-planting teams globally through donor-supported missionaries. Comparable to Reliant in mobilizing support-based workers through sending churches.
• YWAM (Youth With A Mission): Large interdenominational evangelical mission movement mobilizing missionaries through training schools and DTS programs. Comparable to Reliant in mobilizing support-based workers, though with broader volunteer/discipleship emphasis.
• The Navigators: Faith-based mission organization that trains and supports missionaries and disciple-makers globally. Comparable to Reliant in mobilizing support-based workers via church partnerships and donor networks.
• Mission Aviation Fellowship (MAF): Faith-based organization that recruits, trains, and supports missionary pilots and support staff via donor-funded model. Comparable in mobilizing support-raised missionaries with specialized functions.
• Wycliffe Bible Translators: Faith-based mission organization mobilizing support-raised personnel for Bible translation work globally. Comparable to Reliant in donor-funded missionary deployment and church partnership model.
• SIM (Serving In Mission): Global evangelical mission organization with extensive international field infrastructure and member-supported missionaries. Comparable to Reliant in mobilizing support-raised workers for cross-cultural ministry.
• ABWE (Association of Baptists for World Evangelism): Faith-based mission agency sending support-raised missionaries focused on church planting globally. Comparable to Reliant in missionary mobilization and church partnership structures.

Others

• ECFA (Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability): Accrediting body for evangelical nonprofits, of which Reliant has been a member since 1992. Not a competitor but a relevant industry context for Reliant's accountability positioning.

Market position

Strengths1 record

Weaknesses1 record

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Compliance1 record

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Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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