Florida · Nonprofit
21ST CENTURY MINISTRIES INC
21ST CENTURY MINISTRIES INC (Florida) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $695,594 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ($504,623). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 96% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.3M
- Funders on record
- 14
- Grants received
- $696k
- Net assets
- $193k
What 21st Century Ministries Inc does
Mission
21st century ministries dba inspiration academy mission is to cultivate, nourish and inspire students, using a mentorship model to develop an intergrated life of faith from the inside out, in an environment of family, care and love. We do this through creating (see attached stmt
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The school grew its enrollment in the past two years in its goal to serve more families in the community. Additionally, the academy continued to grow the newer sports to provide more opportunities for students to be part of teams and to be stretched beyond what they think is possible. The school expanded its drama offering providing students opportunties for students to participate in two plays and in a musical in the past year.
$4,968,597 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $4,968,597.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $806k to $1.5M (+89%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
44% of 21ST CENTURY MINISTRIES INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (90% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Board chair
Eddie Speir
Director and chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base held at 4 funders, grant income rose $34k → $536k.
8 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 96% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of 21ST CENTURY MINISTRIES INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 13 of 14 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
21ST CENTURY MINISTRIES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 73% of grant income and the top three 92%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
99% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund 21ST CENTURY MINISTRIES INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 65% · 2019 85% · 2020 66% · 2021 95% · 2022 78% · 2023 94% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
11% of 21ST CENTURY MINISTRIES INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 36% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
96% of 21ST CENTURY MINISTRIES INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $25k that is directly attributable, 70% of it comes from Florida funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $671k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
21ST CENTURY MINISTRIES INC's revenue grew 72% between 2018 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,211 religion nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding 21ST CENTURY MINISTRIES INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $15 on record.
- REFUNDS - GENERAL $15
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like 21ST CENTURY MINISTRIES INC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Florida
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
96% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for 21ST CENTURY MINISTRIES INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds 21ST CENTURY MINISTRIES INC?
- 21ST CENTURY MINISTRIES INC (Florida) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $695,594 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ($504,623). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 96% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does 21ST CENTURY MINISTRIES INC have?
- IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $695,594 in grants to 21ST CENTURY MINISTRIES INC, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of 21ST CENTURY MINISTRIES INC?
- AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $504,623 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like 21ST CENTURY MINISTRIES INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Florida. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2018–2025), and the filings of 14 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing