Minnesota · Nonprofit
CHRISTIAN LIFE MINISTRY
CHRISTIAN LIFE MINISTRY (Minnesota) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,000 to it, the largest being CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA ($6,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2023
- $4k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $12k
- Net assets
- $63
What Christian Life Ministry does
Mission
Christian Life Ministry is dedicated to serving our youth, and by serving the youth we serve the families in our communities. We desire that our youth experience a personal spiritual relationship with jesus through the practice of devotion; discover their purpose and reach their goals through a greater understanding of the importance of an education; and by providing a greater sense of worth through multiple enrichment opportunities, I.e. Sports teams, camps, art, music, service-learning projects and field trips.
As stated on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Basketball:our mission is to not only give youth an opportunity to excel in the sport of basketball but to offer a way of getting them to learn teamwork and strategic thinking skills, compassion, and increasing their spirituality and faith in family and themselves. We give our youth an alternative to the streets. Our records in number of wins and state titles attest to our excellent training and time commitments from all our volunteers, both coaches and parents.
$0 spent
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $0.
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 2017 to 2018, from $3k to $13k (+325%).
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 CHRISTIAN LIFE MINISTRY’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. 5 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income held at $6k.
2 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 CHRISTIAN LIFE MINISTRY’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
CHRISTIAN LIFE MINISTRY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% 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
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 CHRISTIAN LIFE MINISTRY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2022 100% — broadly stable.
“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
100% of CHRISTIAN LIFE MINISTRY'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $12k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
CHRISTIAN LIFE MINISTRY runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 9,986 religion nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,986 religion nonprofits under $100k, FY2023
Organizations like CHRISTIAN LIFE MINISTRY
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 Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
99%
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 CHRISTIAN LIFE MINISTRY: 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 CHRISTIAN LIFE MINISTRY?
- CHRISTIAN LIFE MINISTRY (Minnesota) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,000 to it, the largest being CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA ($6,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does CHRISTIAN LIFE MINISTRY have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $12,000 in grants to CHRISTIAN LIFE MINISTRY.
- Who is the largest funder of CHRISTIAN LIFE MINISTRY?
- CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA is the largest funder on record, with $6,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHRISTIAN LIFE MINISTRY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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 FY2023 (financials across 2017–2023), 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