California · Nonprofit
BRINEKNIT
BRINEKNIT (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,700 to it, the largest being Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc ($7,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 86% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $156k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $9k
- Net assets
- $21k
What Brineknit does
Mission
The specific objective and purpose of this corporation shall be to make Jesus Christ known through the development and funding of clear and innovative communications of the Bible for gospel ministry. This corporation is established for the express purpose of Christian witness, making the gospel of Jesus Christ known to people of every age, gender, race, religion, and culture. It exists to make known the grace of God and the good news of his love for humanity and for the world through the development and funding of a variety of clear and innovative communications of the Bible. Its goal is to invite men, women, and children to know and trust God as he is revealed in the Holy Scriptures, being the God of mercy, renewal, and peace, and to discover their personal, unique identity in him as gracious vessels of his love and peaceful ambassadors of his offer of hope.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Program
The specific objective and purpose of this corporation shall be to make Jesus Christ known through the development and funding of clear and innovative communications of the Bible for gospel ministry.
$54,179 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $54,179.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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 2023 to 2024, from $26k to $21k (−20%).
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 BRINEKNIT’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. 1 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Hannah Ploegstra
CEO
Board chair
Gerrit Bothof Jr
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 86% 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 BRINEKNIT’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
BRINEKNIT leans on a few funders — its largest provides 86% 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
86% 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 BRINEKNIT.
“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
86% of BRINEKNIT'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 $1k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from California funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $8k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
BRINEKNIT has grown faster than three-quarters of the 12,816 religion nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,816 religion nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like BRINEKNIT
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.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BRINEKNIT: 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 BRINEKNIT?
- BRINEKNIT (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,700 to it, the largest being Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc ($7,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 86% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does BRINEKNIT have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $8,700 in grants to BRINEKNIT, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BRINEKNIT?
- Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $7,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BRINEKNIT 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 FY2024 (financials across 2023–2024), and the filings of 2 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