California · Nonprofit
BARTIMAEUS MINISTRIES INC
BARTIMAEUS MINISTRIES INC (California) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $99,761 to it, the largest being IMPACTASSETSINC ($51,660). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 73% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $165k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $100k
- Net assets
- $56k
What Bartimaeus Ministries Inc does
Mission
To promote the renewal of gospel work and life among communities of faith in the world.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Theological Animation:Ministry of teaching, writing and organizing, helping to build a faith-based movement for peace, justice, and discipleship via speaking, teaching online courses, webinar broadcasts, and lecture video-conferencing on a diverse range of themes. Staff posted weekly on BCM blog, and almost daily on BCM's Facebook page.
$31,438 spent24% of program spendingMinistry Outreach:Ministry to support pastors, educators, students and activists to build capacity for change in churches and faith communities. Strategically amplifies and broadly disseminates our perspective on the theology and practices of contemporary discipleship.
$45,079 spent34% of program spendingRestorative Justice:Ministry of education, writing and organizing, seeking to teach about alternatives to violence, truth and reconciliation projects, impact of intergenerational trauma, and processes of decolonization. The staff speaks at various venues around the U.S. and Canada, publishes articles, teaches online courses and curates webinars.
$56,766 spent43% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $133,283.
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 2020 to 2021, from $105k to $148k (+41%).
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.
83% of BARTIMAEUS MINISTRIES INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 9 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $9k → $10k.
4 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 73% 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 BARTIMAEUS 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
BARTIMAEUS MINISTRIES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 52% of grant income and the top three 79%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
95% 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 BARTIMAEUS MINISTRIES INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 45% · 2019 60% · 2020 94% · 2021 93% · 2022 100% · 2023 90% — 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.
Where its funders are
73% of BARTIMAEUS 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 $27k that is directly attributable, 62% of it comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $73k 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.
Against its field
BARTIMAEUS MINISTRIES INC's revenue fell 26% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,334 religion nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like BARTIMAEUS 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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
83%
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 BARTIMAEUS 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 BARTIMAEUS MINISTRIES INC?
- BARTIMAEUS MINISTRIES INC (California) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $99,761 to it, the largest being IMPACTASSETSINC ($51,660). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 73% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does BARTIMAEUS MINISTRIES INC have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $99,761 in grants to BARTIMAEUS MINISTRIES INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BARTIMAEUS MINISTRIES INC?
- IMPACTASSETSINC is the largest funder on record, with $51,660 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BARTIMAEUS MINISTRIES 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 7 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