Virginia · Nonprofit
ALPHA MINISTRIES INC
ALPHA MINISTRIES INC (Virginia) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,166,410 to it, the largest being THE HAROLD C SMITH FOUNDATION TO PROMOTE CHRISTIANITY ($550,000). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2019
- $1.7M
- Funders on record
- 14
- Grants received
- $1.2M
- Net assets
- $1.6M
What Alpha Ministries Inc does
Mission
The mission of alpha ministries is to express to the world the love of the lord jesus christ. As followers of jesus christ we serve all people, regardless of religion, race, ethnicity, gender or nationality with the attitude of christ.
As stated on its FY2019 Form 990.
Program
Alpha ministries serves the physical and spiritual needs of people in communities around the world by: providing spiritual and physical aid, building community centers, old age home and elderly center, organizing community development programs, adult literacy education, and other assistance as needed. We are on the forefront of saving women and children from human trafficking. We believe every child deserves a future and we give children a healthy start in life by providing aid for those in need, literacy programs, housing for needy and clean water projects. We mentor, provide leadership and discipleship training, support m:28 training centers, literature distribution, humanitarian aid distribution, disaster relief, releasing children and adults from poverty as well as making a measurable difference in the lives of children, women and families in need. Alpha ministries is also serving the persecuted believers through practical and spiritual assistance while leading believers in the free world into fellowship with them. Alpha ministries directly assists frontline messengers, workers and believers who carry out their god given call in the face of hostility and persecution.…
The first program described on its most recent Form 990, which lists programs largest first by expense.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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 2018 to 2019, from $1.4M to $1.6M (+12%).
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.
99% of ALPHA MINISTRIES INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (90% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 3 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.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2018 and FY2019 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $25k → $89k.
6 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 32% 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 ALPHA MINISTRIES INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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
ALPHA MINISTRIES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 47% of grant income and the top three 75%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
42% 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 ALPHA MINISTRIES INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 39% · 2018 40% · 2019 45% · 2020 35% · 2021 77% · 2022 41% · 2023 44% — 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
71% of ALPHA MINISTRIES INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 79% 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
ALPHA MINISTRIES INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Virginia, across 7 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $371k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
ALPHA MINISTRIES INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 1,441 religion nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,441 religion nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2019
Organizations like ALPHA 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 Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
81%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ALPHA 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 ALPHA MINISTRIES INC?
- ALPHA MINISTRIES INC (Virginia) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,166,410 to it, the largest being THE HAROLD C SMITH FOUNDATION TO PROMOTE CHRISTIANITY ($550,000). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ALPHA MINISTRIES INC have?
- IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $1,166,410 in grants to ALPHA MINISTRIES INC, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ALPHA MINISTRIES INC?
- THE HAROLD C SMITH FOUNDATION TO PROMOTE CHRISTIANITY is the largest funder on record, with $550,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ALPHA MINISTRIES INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2019 (financials across 2017–2019), 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