Kentucky · Nonprofit
By the Spirit Ministries Inc
By the Spirit Ministries Inc (Kentucky) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,197,928 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($1,671,967). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 61% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.5M
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $3.2M
- Net assets
- $210k
What By the Spirit Ministries Inc does
Mission
Spread the Gospel of Jesus Christ around the world with an emphasis on three geographic locations East Asia and Pacific South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
East Asia and Pacific Ministry Program - The organization develops relationships with indigenous churches and Christian leaders to mobilize, train, deploy, and support local disciple makers serving unreached people groups within their own communities. The organization helps local churches identify men and women called to serve as engagers, indigenous disciple-makers and church planters. Engagers receive training in evangelism, Bible study, discipleship, leadership development, and the establishment of churches. The organization provides ongoing training, oversight, and financial support to advance sustainable, locally led ministry. During the year, the East Asia and Pacific Ministry Program supported 225 engagers, planted 704 new churches, established 958 Bible study groups, and received 3,493 first-time professions of faith in Jesus Christ.
$181,952 spent14% of program spendingSouth Asia Ministry Program - The organization develops relationships with indigenous churches and Christian leaders to mobilize, train, deploy, and support local disciple makers serving unreached people groups within their own communities. The organization helps local churches identify men and women called to serve as engagers, indigenous disciple-makers and church planters. Engagers receive training in evangelism, Bible study, discipleship, leadership development, and the establishment of churches. The organization provides ongoing training, oversight, and financial support to advance sustainable, locally led ministry. During the year, the South Asia Ministry Program supported 57 engagers, planted 3 new churches, established 57 Bible study groups, and received 1,798 first-time professions of faith in Jesus Christ.
$704,353 spent56% of program spendingSub-Saharan Africa Ministry Program - The organization develops relationships with indigenous churches and Christian leaders to mobilize, train, deploy, and support local disciple makers serving unreached people groups within their own communities. The organization helps local churches identify men and women called to serve as engagers, indigenous disciple-makers and church planters. Engagers receive training in evangelism, Bible study, discipleship, leadership development, and the establishment of churches. The organization provides ongoing training, oversight, and financial support to advance sustainable, locally led ministry. During the year, the Sub-Saharan Africa Ministry Program supported 45 engagers, planted 54 new churches, established 241 Bible study groups, and received 1,837 first-time professions of faith in Jesus Christ.
$374,621 spent30% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,260,926.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 $165k to $0 (−100%).
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 By the Spirit Ministries Inc’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (90% 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.
Chief executive
Miles L Phelps
Executive Director
Board chair
Anthony Humphress
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $3k → $607k.
6 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 61% 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 By the Spirit Ministries Inc’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
By the Spirit Ministries Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 52% of grant income and the top three 90%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
99% 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 By the Spirit Ministries Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 86% · 2021 90% · 2022 60% · 2023 69% — 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
50% of By the Spirit Ministries Inc's funders are still giving 1 year after their first grant; 64% 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
61% of By the Spirit Ministries Inc'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 $1.2M that is directly attributable, 79% of it comes from Kentucky funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
By the Spirit Ministries Inc has grown faster than three-quarters of the 1,325 religion nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,325 religion nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like By the Spirit 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 Kentucky
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for By the Spirit Ministries Inc: 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 By the Spirit Ministries Inc?
- By the Spirit Ministries Inc (Kentucky) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,197,928 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($1,671,967). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 61% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does By the Spirit Ministries Inc have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $3,197,928 in grants to By the Spirit Ministries Inc, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of By the Spirit Ministries Inc?
- NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,671,967 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like By the Spirit Ministries Inc 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 FY2025 (financials across 2018–2025), and the filings of 11 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