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BAY AREA MINISTRIES INC

BAY AREA MINISTRIES INC (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $42,500 to it, the largest being Silicon Valley Community Foundation ($25,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 67% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$52k
Funders on record
3
Grants received
$43k
Net assets
$22k
0/3 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 26%
01What it does

What Bay Area Ministries Inc does

Mission

Establishing christian education/assistance

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Programs

  1. Researching models for christian education and establishing christian education for children with parent assistance and training-lead out education

    $23,205 spent
    39% of program spending
  2. Benevolence projects, missionary action and social assistance-feast program

    $32,065 spent
    54% of program spending
  3. Outreach and administration for program services

    $4,308 spent
    7% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $59,578.

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 ($120k) Expenses 100 ($77k) Net assets 100 ($67k)2018 Revenue 82 ($99k) Expenses 109 ($84k) Net assets 122 ($82k)2019 Revenue 82 ($98k) Expenses 101 ($78k) Net assets 152 ($101k)2020 Revenue 112 ($134k) Expenses 216 ($167k) Net assets 103 ($69k)2021 Revenue 135 ($163k) Expenses 242 ($187k) Net assets 66 ($44k)2022 Revenue 85 ($102k) Expenses 144 ($111k) Net assets 56 ($38k)2023 Revenue 67 ($81k) Expenses 112 ($87k) Net assets 48 ($32k)2024 Revenue 56 ($68k) Expenses 91 ($71k) Net assets 43 ($29k)2025 Revenue 44 ($52k) Expenses 77 ($60k) Net assets 33 ($22k)
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Revenue (44)Expenses (77)Net assets (33)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $101k to $69k (−32%).

$67k
$82k
$101k
$69k
$44k
$38k
$32k
$29k
$22k
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Total assets

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
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

77% of BAY AREA MINISTRIES INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (87% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 1,273 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$43k
’17
$15k
’18
$20k
’19
−$32k
’20
−$25k
’21
−$9k
’22
−$6k
’23
−$3k
’24
−$7k
’25
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2019: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $4k → $25k.

2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 67% 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 BAY AREA 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

BAY AREA MINISTRIES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 59% 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 BAY AREA MINISTRIES INC.

59%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 100% — broadly stable.

“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

67% of BAY AREA 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 $14k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside California, across 1 state.

OR

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $29k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

BAY AREA MINISTRIES INC's revenue fell 56% between 2017 and 2025.

Operating margin−14% · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−10% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 663 unclassified nonprofits under $100k, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

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

Public support

100%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

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Questions and answers

Who funds BAY AREA MINISTRIES INC?
BAY AREA MINISTRIES INC (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $42,500 to it, the largest being Silicon Valley Community Foundation ($25,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 67% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does BAY AREA MINISTRIES INC have?
IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $42,500 in grants to BAY AREA MINISTRIES INC.
Who is the largest funder of BAY AREA MINISTRIES INC?
Silicon Valley Community Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $25,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like BAY AREA 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 3 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