Ohio · Nonprofit
BLOC MINISTRIES INC
BLOC MINISTRIES INC (Ohio) receives grants from 76 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,240,707 to it, the largest being THE MAAS FAMILY FOUNDATION ($857,000). 46 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $5.3M
- Funders on record
- 76
- Grants received
- $7.2M
- Net assets
- $10.0M
What Bloc Ministries Inc does
Mission
Bloc's mission is building relationships with our neighbors and sharing hope in brokenness. We do this through a variety of free activities and programs for youth and adults.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
BLOC Industries offers paid job training to hard-to-employ men and women ex-felons recovering addicts etc. Focus on both general job skills as well as trade skills in food and printing. These small businesses also aspire to grow social enterprises in an economically challenged neighborhood.
$1,658,210 spent56% of program spendingBLOC offers two programs specifically to urban women who struggle to overcome drug addiction and to leave the sex trafficking trade. 1 Weightless Anchor day shelters for homeless women in Price Hill area who are still involved in drugs and prostitution being trafficked. Goal: to offer practical support and resources for change. 2Redeemed residential homes for women in recovery. Goal: offer mentoring practical support and life job training to move them into a pathway of self-sufficiency. All programs are offered at no cost.
$351,176 spent12% of program spendingBLOC offers programs and mentoring for urban students and families to foster holistic success in life. These include afterschool programs arts sports training and residential program for teens whose families are experiencing issues like homelessness or parental absence due to incarceration or illness emergency food pantries and community meals large neighborhood events like grill outs and seasonal festivals.
$953,029 spent32% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,962,415.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 $4.9M to $6.6M (+34%).
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: 2020 12% · 2021 7% · 2022 4% · 2023 5% · 2024 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
93% of BLOC MINISTRIES INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (90% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 5 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 12 funders to 35 funders, grant income rose $356k → $1.3M.
16 of 76 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 36% 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 BLOC MINISTRIES INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 76 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
BLOC MINISTRIES INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 12% of grant income, and it takes 8 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 8 funders to its left
42% 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 BLOC MINISTRIES INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 35% · 2018 18% · 2019 39% · 2020 40% · 2021 12% · 2022 11% · 2023 23% — 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
61% of BLOC MINISTRIES INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% 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
95% of BLOC MINISTRIES INC's grant income comes from Ohio funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 12 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
BLOC MINISTRIES INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,399 religion nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,399 religion nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like BLOC 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 Ohio
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 6 related entities
- Bloc House Coffee Shop LLC · disregarded
- Bloc Industries LLC · disregarded
- Bloc Letterpress LLC · disregarded
- Bloc Ministries - Knoxville LLC · disregarded
- Bloc Ministries - Louisville LLC · disregarded
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BLOC MINISTRIES INC?
- BLOC MINISTRIES INC (Ohio) receives grants from 76 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,240,707 to it, the largest being THE MAAS FAMILY FOUNDATION ($857,000). 46 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BLOC MINISTRIES INC have?
- IRS filings report 76 organizations giving $7,240,707 in grants to BLOC MINISTRIES INC, 46 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BLOC MINISTRIES INC?
- THE MAAS FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $857,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BLOC MINISTRIES INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. 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 2020–2024), and the filings of 76 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing