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AskDrBrown Ministries Inc

AskDrBrown Ministries Inc (North Carolina) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $357,350 to it, the largest being JEWISH VOICE MINISTRIES INTL ($132,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$1.3M
Funders on record
10
Grants received
$357k
Net assets
$188k
8/10 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 10%
01What it does

What AskDrBrown Ministries Inc does

Mission

Non-Profit religious to teach the Gospel of Jesus Christ

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. During the year, Dr Brown traveled to various locations and held leadership training meetings for local pastors, conducted various outreach events, debates, and seminars in the United States, and distributed books and other materials for free both overseas and domestically. Dr. Brown also pays a staff to assist in the larger ministry work, from responding to individual callers and emailers, processing orders, updating websites, and other day to day tasks.

    $1,066,812 spent
    75% of program spending
  2. Dr. Brown hosts (and pays for) a radio program on The Truth radio network called the Line of Fire. It currently airs one hour a day, five days a week. Included in these expenses are also production and staff costs.

    $362,066 spent
    25% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,428,878.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($1.0M) Expenses 100 ($788k) Net assets -340 ($-682846)2018 Revenue 101 ($1.0M) Expenses 111 ($873k) Net assets -263 ($-528338)2020 Revenue 116 ($1.2M) Expenses 114 ($901k) Net assets -67 ($-134148)2021 Revenue 107 ($1.1M) Expenses 124 ($974k) Net assets -8 ($-15097)2022 Revenue 124 ($1.3M) Expenses 133 ($1.0M) Net assets 100 ($201k)2023 Revenue 152 ($1.6M) Expenses 178 ($1.4M) Net assets 176 ($354k)2024 Revenue 126 ($1.3M) Expenses 185 ($1.5M) Net assets 93 ($188k)
2017201820202021202220232024
Revenue (126)Expenses (185)Net assets (93)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $465k to $291k (−37%).

$98k
$121k
$271k
$218k
$329k
$465k
$291k
2017201820202021202220232024
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

87% of AskDrBrown Ministries Inc’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (90% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 2,735 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

$231k
’17
$155k
’18
$284k
’20
$119k
’21
$216k
’22
$153k
’23
−$166k
’24
1.0
months of
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.

2017201820202021202220232024
Listed5556555
Joined·+0·+1+0+0+0
No longer listed·0·0100
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 3 funders, grant income fell $48k → $15k.

5 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 34% 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 AskDrBrown 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

AskDrBrown Ministries Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 37% of grant income and the top three 69%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

77% 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 AskDrBrown Ministries Inc.

37%
largest funder
69%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 75% · 2018 51% · 2019 75% · 2020 43% · 2021 47% · 2022 40% · 2023 60% — 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

44% of AskDrBrown Ministries Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 80% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

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

AskDrBrown Ministries Inc draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside North Carolina, across 5 states in all.

WA
IN
CA
AZ
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’17
’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
North Carolina out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $123k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

AskDrBrown Ministries Inc's revenue grew 26% between 2017 and 2024.

Operating margin−13% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve1.0mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)3% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,394 religion nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Organizations like AskDrBrown 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 North Carolina

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

98% of spending goes to programs.

Program 98%Management 2%Fundraising 0%

Governance

5
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

94%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds AskDrBrown Ministries Inc?
AskDrBrown Ministries Inc (North Carolina) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $357,350 to it, the largest being JEWISH VOICE MINISTRIES INTL ($132,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does AskDrBrown Ministries Inc have?
IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $357,350 in grants to AskDrBrown Ministries Inc, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of AskDrBrown Ministries Inc?
JEWISH VOICE MINISTRIES INTL is the largest funder on record, with $132,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like AskDrBrown Ministries Inc find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 10 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