Indiana · Nonprofit
Ancient Faith Ministries Formerly Conciliar Media Ministries
Ancient Faith Ministries Formerly Conciliar Media Ministries (Indiana) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $708,135 to it, the largest being ORTHODOX VISION FOUNDATION ($205,620). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $3.8M
- Funders on record
- 18
- Grants received
- $708k
- Net assets
- $1.9M
What Ancient Faith Ministries Formerly Conciliar Media Ministries does
Mission
The organization publishes Orthodox Christian books and literature and operates three internet religious radio stations for the purpose of introducing and teaching about Orthodox Christianity to the United States and the rest of the world.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Ancient Faith Publishing publishes a large number of books, booklets and brochures with regard to various aspects of Orthodox Christianity. It also sells religious icons, religious jewelery and liturgical items for the home. It also sells books from other publishers regarding Orthodox Christianity. Presently, Ancient Faith Publishing has approximately 240 active book titles in print in addition to E-books, audio-books and an array of literature in booklet/brochure format. Approximately 50% of its sales are to Orthodox and other Christian bookstores, churches and church bookstores. The other 50% of its sales are to individuals. It distributes Orthodox books and literature to approximately 2,000 wholesale customers (bookstores and church bookstores) as well as a number of individuals. The purpose of this distribution is to introduce Orthodox Christianity to non-ORthodox Christians and to enlighten and teach Orthodox Christians about their faith.
$1,839,891 spent$2,320,158 earned by the program65% of program spendingAncient Faith Radio operates three internet religious radio stations, two of which primarily provide music (English language and global) and the other of which primarily focuses on conversation, lectures and presentations about Orthodox Christianity. The radio stations' reach is primarily in the United States, but there are regular listeners in various other countries world-wide. At the present time, with regard to its podcasts, which feature a large number of speakers on a variety of religious topics, there are over 375,000 downloads of the content every month as well as nearly 46,000 episodes of podcasts and 8 live shows. The purpose of the content for these three radio stations and all the podcasts is to introduce Orthodox Christianity to non-Orthodox Christians and to enlighten and teach Orthodox Christians about their faith.
$997,864 spent35% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,837,755.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2020 to 2021, from $1.3M to $2.1M (+62%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
32% of Ancient Faith Ministries Formerly Conciliar Media Ministries’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (90% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 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.
Chief executive
Melinda Johnson
President & CEO
Board chair
Deacon Tom Braun
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $46k → $116k.
8 of 18 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 39% 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 Ancient Faith Ministries Formerly Conciliar Media Ministries’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
Ancient Faith Ministries Formerly Conciliar Media Ministries leans on a few funders — its largest provides 29% of grant income and the top three 71%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
40% 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 Ancient Faith Ministries Formerly Conciliar Media Ministries.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 64% · 2018 50% · 2019 43% · 2020 65% · 2021 28% · 2022 34% · 2023 43% — diversifying over time.
“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
50% of Ancient Faith Ministries Formerly Conciliar Media Ministries's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 44% 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
Ancient Faith Ministries Formerly Conciliar Media Ministries draws 99% of its grant income from funders outside Indiana, across 9 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $277k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
Ancient Faith Ministries Formerly Conciliar Media Ministries has grown faster than half of the 2,394 religion nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,394 religion nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like Ancient Faith Ministries Formerly Conciliar Media Ministries
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 Indiana
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
93%
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 Ancient Faith Ministries Formerly Conciliar Media Ministries: 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 Ancient Faith Ministries Formerly Conciliar Media Ministries?
- Ancient Faith Ministries Formerly Conciliar Media Ministries (Indiana) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $708,135 to it, the largest being ORTHODOX VISION FOUNDATION ($205,620). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Ancient Faith Ministries Formerly Conciliar Media Ministries have?
- IRS filings report 18 organizations giving $708,135 in grants to Ancient Faith Ministries Formerly Conciliar Media Ministries, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Ancient Faith Ministries Formerly Conciliar Media Ministries?
- ORTHODOX VISION FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $205,620 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Ancient Faith Ministries Formerly Conciliar Media Ministries find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Indiana. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 18 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