Colorado · Nonprofit
BIG HORN MINISTRIES
BIG HORN MINISTRIES (Colorado) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $241,150 to it, the largest being NEW EAGLE FOUNDATION ($125,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $153k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $241k
- Net assets
- $192k
What Big Horn Ministries does
Mission
Religious and Educational Retreats
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
3 Retreats for Women total of participants Refreshing Global Workers74
$12,950 spent70% of program spending6 retreats for Christian Workers total of 15 Participants Equipping and Refreshing Leaders
$4,350 spent24% of program spending2 Mens Retreats total of 6 Participants Recreation in His Creation
$1,140 spent6% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $18,440.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2021 to 2022, from $149k to $180k (+21%).
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 BIG HORN MINISTRIES’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. 2 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Spencer D Nicholl
CEO and Chairman of Board
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $12k → $40k.
2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 38% 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 HORN MINISTRIES’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
BIG HORN MINISTRIES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 52% of grant income and the top three 89%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
38% 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 HORN MINISTRIES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 50% · 2018 53% · 2019 80% · 2020 75% · 2021 56% · 2022 53% · 2023 62% — 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
BIG HORN MINISTRIES draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Colorado, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $91k 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 HORN MINISTRIES runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 7,334 religion nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,334 religion nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like BIG HORN MINISTRIES
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 Colorado
Nationally
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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BIG HORN MINISTRIES: 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 BIG HORN MINISTRIES?
- BIG HORN MINISTRIES (Colorado) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $241,150 to it, the largest being NEW EAGLE FOUNDATION ($125,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BIG HORN MINISTRIES have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $241,150 in grants to BIG HORN MINISTRIES, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BIG HORN MINISTRIES?
- NEW EAGLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $125,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BIG HORN MINISTRIES find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Colorado. 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 5 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