Mississippi · Nonprofit
BUT GOD MINISTRIES
BUT GOD MINISTRIES (Mississippi) receives grants from 54 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,279,708 to it, the largest being MLB-MLBPA Youth Development Foundation ($1,000,000). 31 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.6M
- Funders on record
- 54
- Grants received
- $5.3M
- Net assets
- $5.2M
What But God Ministries does
Mission
Sharing the love of jesus christ by building sustainable communities around the world and providing medical care to low-income households in the united states. The organization is currently building two sustainable communities in haiti and one in the mississippi delta.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
But God Ministries continued its mission of supporting local economic development in the haitian communities of galette chambon and thoman. In 2025, the organization provided daily meals and education to over 2,500 children across seven schools, delivered medical care to thousands through its clinics in thoman, and supported 13 university students in port-au-prince. Additional initiatives included agricultural development, vocational training, housing for orphans, job creation, and home construction. The ministry conducted multiple food distributions, graduated students from its vocational school, held two high school graduation ceremonies, and facilitated worship services, discipleship classes, and baptisms. Despite ongoing instability and violence in haiti, But God Ministries employed over 250 individuals and continued to host volunteers who served in various capacities throughout the year.
$1,223,594 spent56% of program spendingBut God Ministries continued its efforts to promote economic development in jonestown, mississippi. In 2025, the organization operated a montessori school and a dental clinic, while also offering bible studies and children's sports camps. The ministry treated dozens at its dental clinic, completed construction of a new baseball/softball complex, and hosted hundreds of mission trip participants. Additional initiatives included building accessibility ramps for disabled residents and completed construction of the infrustructure for a brand new ten house neighborhood behind our hope center. The organization also held bible studies, vacation bible school sessions, mentorship programs, and worship services. But God Ministries employed 9 full-time staff members and sponsored numerous local teenagers to attend a christian camp.
$966,642 spent44% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,190,236.
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 2023 to 2024, from $3.7M to $5.6M (+49%).
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: 2022 16% · 2023 10% · 2024 7% · 2025 15%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of BUT GOD MINISTRIES’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (97% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 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.
Chief executive
Stanley P Buckley
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 28 funders, grant income rose $100k → $1.7M.
14 of 54 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 27% 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 BUT GOD MINISTRIES’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 54 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
BUT GOD MINISTRIES has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 19% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
57% 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 BUT GOD MINISTRIES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 57% · 2018 51% · 2019 22% · 2020 16% · 2021 22% · 2022 15% · 2023 30% — 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
52% of BUT GOD MINISTRIES's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% 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
BUT GOD MINISTRIES draws 59% of its grant income from funders outside Mississippi, across 15 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 13 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
BUT GOD MINISTRIES's funding base is broadening — from 4 funders to 28 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 798 international nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like BUT GOD 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 Mississippi
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
93%
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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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BUT GOD 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 BUT GOD MINISTRIES?
- BUT GOD MINISTRIES (Mississippi) receives grants from 54 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,279,708 to it, the largest being MLB-MLBPA Youth Development Foundation ($1,000,000). 31 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BUT GOD MINISTRIES have?
- IRS filings report 54 organizations giving $5,279,708 in grants to BUT GOD MINISTRIES, 31 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BUT GOD MINISTRIES?
- MLB-MLBPA Youth Development Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $1,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BUT GOD MINISTRIES find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Mississippi. 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 54 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