Kentucky · Nonprofit
BIG CREEK MISSIONS
BIG CREEK MISSIONS (Kentucky) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $267,392 to it, the largest being WHITAKER FOUNDATION INC ($70,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.7M
- Funders on record
- 14
- Grants received
- $267k
- Net assets
- $2.4M
What Big Creek Missions does
Mission
Big Creek Missions is a christian ministry center in bear branch, kentucky that works to connect churches and volunteer groups from across the country with needs that exist in the leslie, clay and perry county areas. Our primary task is to locate ministry opportunities for churches who travel to our area, in addition to providing accomodations for those groups. By connecting these churches with needs, we are able to reach out to our community in several ways. We offer: free home repairs (major and minor projects); community programs (providing volunteers and goods for multiple ministris); children's programs (tutoring, daycamps, clothing, hygiene kits); food distribution; and teen outreach. Our services are offered without regard to the person's race, religion or social standing. By providing these services, and connecting churches with needs here in our community, we hope to nurture positive relationships that will continue to benefit the community here at big creek, in addition to pr
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Home repairs: Big Creek Missions was able to provide extensive home repairs for over 50 homes in our community. We were able to accomplish these repairs by recruiting and mobilizing a volunteer base of over 700 dedicated solely to construction work. Most of the residents of these homes were low-income or disabled residents who could not afford the supplies or complete the project on their own. Services included roof replacement, wheelchair ramps, weatherization and interior home repairs.
$220,468 spent18% of program spendingCommunity service programs and missionary support: Big Creek Missions recruited and mobilized over 800 volunteers who were dedicated to community service work. We offered monthly food distributions, clothing distributions, home good distributions, and other items as needed. Our volunteers provided assistance to multiple senior care centers, visited elderly and sick, and offered services to government organizations, schools and other ministries and programs.
$646,743 spent$398,985 earned by the program54% of program spendingChildren's ministries: Big Creek Missions recruited and mobilized over 800 volunteers who were dedicated to children's ministry work. We offered summer programs for children. Our four hour day camp program offered physical fitness activities, crafts, games, skills enhancements, and free lunches. These programs were offered for ten weeks during the summer months, and at various times throughout the year. All our services were offered free of charge to any local student.
$313,839 spent$398,985 earned by the program26% of program spendingDepreciation of equipment used for program services.
$15,914 spent1% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,196,964.
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 2019 to 2020, from $702k to $1.4M (+94%).
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: 2017 5% · 2019 7% · 2020 59% · 2023 45% · 2024 51%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
51% of BIG CREEK MISSIONS’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 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 3 funders, grant income rose $10k → $49k.
3 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 14% 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 BIG CREEK MISSIONS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 13 of 14 funders by total. 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
BIG CREEK MISSIONS has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 26% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
41% 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 BIG CREEK MISSIONS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 67% · 2020 41% · 2021 41% · 2022 33% · 2023 81% — 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
40% of BIG CREEK MISSIONS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 43% 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
BIG CREEK MISSIONS draws 69% of its grant income from funders outside Kentucky, across 10 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $38k 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
BIG CREEK MISSIONS runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 11,263 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,263 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like BIG CREEK MISSIONS
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 Kentucky
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
95% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BIG CREEK MISSIONS?
- BIG CREEK MISSIONS (Kentucky) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $267,392 to it, the largest being WHITAKER FOUNDATION INC ($70,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BIG CREEK MISSIONS have?
- IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $267,392 in grants to BIG CREEK MISSIONS, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BIG CREEK MISSIONS?
- WHITAKER FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $70,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BIG CREEK MISSIONS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Kentucky. 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 14 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