Texas · Nonprofit
CALVARY ROAD MINISTRIES
CALVARY ROAD MINISTRIES (Texas) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $265,396 to it, the largest being SHAI FUND INC ($154,505). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $600k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $265k
- Net assets
- $96k
What Calvary Road Ministries does
Mission
Calvary Road Ministries (crm) is dedicated to empowering self-sustaining gospel movements among the least-reached people groups of north and east africa. Crm focuses on equipping indigenous believers - particularly those in refugee camps and conflict zones - with the necessary tools and training to evangelize, disciple, and plant churches within their communities. This mission is carried out through various means, including the use of chronological bible storying, provision of scriptural resources tailored for functionally illiterate believers, support for economic opportunities, and care for holistic needs such as those arising from persecution, famine, and natural disasters.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Calvary Road Ministries (crm) empowers self-sustaining gospel movements among least-reached people groups in sudan (darfur), south sudan, kenya, tanzania, and uganda through evangelism, training pastors, and planting and building churches. Crm also ministers to sudanese refugees. Having developed one of the few supply chains into darfur, crm regularly delivers lifesaving foodstuffs, shelter materials, bibles, and solar powered digital ministry resources to refugees and internally displaced persons (idps) in the middle of a violent civil war.
$683,845 spentof which $538,184 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $683,845.
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 2021 to 2022, from $128k to $89k (−30%).
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 CALVARY ROAD MINISTRIES’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (100% 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.
Board chair
John Shepherd Iii
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $3k → $20k.
6 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 42% 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 CALVARY ROAD 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
CALVARY ROAD MINISTRIES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 58% of grant income and the top three 94%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 CALVARY ROAD MINISTRIES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 83% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 50% — 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.
Where its funders are
CALVARY ROAD MINISTRIES draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Texas, across 1 state in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $111k 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
CALVARY ROAD MINISTRIES has grown faster than half 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 CALVARY ROAD 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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
95% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
92%
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 CALVARY ROAD 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 CALVARY ROAD MINISTRIES?
- CALVARY ROAD MINISTRIES (Texas) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $265,396 to it, the largest being SHAI FUND INC ($154,505). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CALVARY ROAD MINISTRIES have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $265,396 in grants to CALVARY ROAD MINISTRIES, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CALVARY ROAD MINISTRIES?
- SHAI FUND INC is the largest funder on record, with $154,505 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CALVARY ROAD MINISTRIES find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 7 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