California · Nonprofit
BARNABAS INC
BARNABAS INC (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $104,700 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($84,300). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $81k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $105k
- Net assets
- $59k
What Barnabas Inc does
Mission
Barnabus Inc. is dedicated to advancing religious charitable and educational causes by fostering church growth and renewal while supporting ministries domestically and internationally. Through the provision of training support and ministry materials the organization equips individuals for effective service in their communities. The ministry led by President Fred Carpenter and Trustee Mary Catherine Miller focuses on creating and disseminating Christian literature that serves an educational purpose empowering individuals for a life dedicated to ministry. The materials authored and published by ministry founder Charles Miller and Mary Catherine Miller aim to enrich and enhance the spiritual journeys of readers enabling them to fulfill their callings in service to the church and the body of Christ.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
We finished two books in 2025: Getting to Know the Book of the Christian and Walking with Abraham. We aim to finish 2 or 3 more in 2026 including the toolbox and now that I am a Christian. We will continue counseling coaching and speaking with partners and new contacts to share about the ministry.
$0 spentThe series titled Walking With Abraham proved so successful that they plan to offer it again in 2026. As always Fred invests considerable time and skill into collecting editing formatting typing and organizing these materials which play a practical role in shaping the inner lives of students and enabling them to influence and lead others!
$0 spentTrustee Mary Catherine Miller focuses on creating and disseminating Christian literature that serves an educational purpose authored and published founder Charles Miller and Mary Catherine Miller the aim to enrich and enhance the spiritual journeys of readers enabling them to help them in service to the church!
$0 spent
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $46k to $65k (+43%).
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.
100% of BARNABAS INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income rose $15k → $25k.
2 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 BARNABAS 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
BARNABAS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 81% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 BARNABAS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 54% · 2018 52% · 2019 61% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
100% of BARNABAS 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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $105k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
BARNABAS INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 6,869 religion nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,869 religion nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like BARNABAS 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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BARNABAS 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 BARNABAS INC?
- BARNABAS INC (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $104,700 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($84,300). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does BARNABAS INC have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $104,700 in grants to BARNABAS INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BARNABAS INC?
- NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC is the largest funder on record, with $84,300 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BARNABAS INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 2022–2025), and the filings of 2 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