How much does Damon Thompson Ministries Inc give?

Damon Thompson Ministries Inc reported 10 itemized grants totaling $280,631, out of $306,110 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 13 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does Damon Thompson Ministries Inc fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Religion (54%), Arts & Culture (24%), Human Services (6%).

Who are Damon Thompson Ministries Inc's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: The Homestead Mobile ($320k), Dutch Sheets Ministries Inc ($231k), The Homestead Church ($106k).

Does Damon Thompson Ministries Inc fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 73% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Damon Thompson Ministries Inc?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc, American Endowment Foundation, National Philanthropic Trust.

Where is Damon Thompson Ministries Inc based?

Damon Thompson Ministries Inc is based in AL.

Damon Thompson Ministries Inc

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· Public charity

Damon Thompson Ministries Inc

Advancing the kingdom of god and spreading the gospel through preaching, teaching, and evanelizing.

$306k

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$58k

Largest

01What it funds

0188% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Religion$773kArts & Culture$337kHuman Services$83kEducation$74kFood & Nutrition$30kOther$0

02FY2024 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured

The 10 grants below total $280,631, the rows itemized in this filing. The $306,110 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $25,479 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k3 grants · $26k
$10k–50k5 grants · $145k
$50k–250k2 grants · $110k

$32,859

Median grant

States reached

$5.6M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
THE HOMESTEAD CHURCH	$57,600
NORTH GATE CHURCH	$52,300
PERIOCHORESIS MINISTRIES	$34,000
DUTCH SHEETS MINISTRIES	$34,000
Individual grant recipient	$32,859
THE RESTING PLACE	$24,000
Individual grant recipient	$20,000
Individual grant recipient	$9,272
JEFF GORE MINISTRIES	$9,000
LEGACY ACADEMY	$7,600

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY21–21, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

70%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$996k · 12 repeat orgs$437k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +43% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

12 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$996k

$340k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%

Still filing today

25%

14%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $96k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

ReligionEducationFood & NutritionHuman ServicesOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

TH
THE HOMESTEAD MOBILE
5× · 2017–2021 · $320k
DS
DUTCH SHEETS MINISTRIES INC
7× · 2017–2024 · $231k · revenue +691%
TH
THE HOMESTEAD CHURCH
5× · 2018–2024 · $106k

Funded once

HC
HOPE CHAPEL OF CAROLINA
2× · 2018–2023 · $48k
TH
THE HOMESTEAD MOBILE
one grant, 2022 · $40k
GH
GOLDEN HARVEST FOOD BANK INC
one grant, 2021 · $30k · revenue +8%

How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

Harvest Ministries Inc

Evangelizing through the gospel of jesus christ

—

Ron Wells Discipleship Ministries dba Centrepoint Ministries

Christian ministry and training

Religion

Harvest International Ministries

Preaching the gospel of jesus christ

Religion

Tony Cooke Ministries Inc

Proclaim the gospel of jesus christ

Religion

Granted Ministries

Christian Books and other materials publiched and given away

Religion

Ken Blount Ministries Inc

To spread the word of god throughout the country

Religion

Hal Lindsey Website Ministries

Teaching and Spreading the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

Religion

Dwain Miller Ministries Inc

To reach as many as possible with the gospel message of gods word

—

Paul White Ministries

Present the gospel

Religion

Harvest Ministries Inc

Spreading the Gospel of Jesus Christ by any available means, including building and funding churches worldwide, funding foreign missionaries, funding for Bible Colleges, and for other similar ministries.

Religion

Bible Teaching Ministries Inc

Religious teaching and counseling

—

Jim King Ministries Inc

Proclaim the gospel of jesus christ

Religion

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Partners in Revival Inc; the most unlike its peers is Worldcast Ministries. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

13 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 37 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

10/13

Grantees still filing

5/13

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$1,077,352Religion$257,000Education$58,299Food & Nutrition$29,518Human Services$10,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Natl Christian Charitable Fdn IncGA6.4× affinity8 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Damon Thompson Ministries Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Damon Thompson Ministries Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

How this is measured

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

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