Tennessee · Nonprofit
COMPASSION MINISTRIES INC
COMPASSION MINISTRIES INC (Tennessee) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $280,111 to it, the largest being TED & DRAMA RUSSELL FAMILY FOUNDATION C/O EAST TN FOUNDATION ($150,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $171k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $280k
- Net assets
- $511k
What Compassion Ministries Inc does
Mission
Compassion ministries, inc. Demonstrates the love and teachings of jesus christ to local families and to those in remote appalachian and cumberland mountain regions of east tennessee, kentucky, and north carolina by feeding the hungry and helping them with their needs by way of mobile food pantries.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Compassion ministries, inc. Demonstrates the love and teachings of jesus christ to local families and to those in remote appalachian and cumberland mountain regions of east tennessee, kentucky, and north carolina by feeding the hungry and helping them with their needs by way of mobile food pantries.
$158,706 spentof which $2,408 as grants100% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$167 spent0% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $158,873.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2022 to 2023, from $379k to $495k (+31%).
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.
109% of COMPASSION MINISTRIES INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 7 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $155 → $183k.
From the IRS filings of COMPASSION MINISTRIES INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 5 of 8 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
COMPASSION MINISTRIES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 54% of grant income and the top three 92%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
75% 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 COMPASSION MINISTRIES INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 98% · 2020 100% · 2022 53% · 2023 82% — 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
76% of COMPASSION MINISTRIES INC's grant income comes from Tennessee funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
COMPASSION MINISTRIES INC's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 4 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,062 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like COMPASSION MINISTRIES INC
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In Tennessee
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
97%
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 COMPASSION 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 COMPASSION MINISTRIES INC?
- COMPASSION MINISTRIES INC (Tennessee) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $280,111 to it, the largest being TED & DRAMA RUSSELL FAMILY FOUNDATION C/O EAST TN FOUNDATION ($150,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COMPASSION MINISTRIES INC have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $280,111 in grants to COMPASSION MINISTRIES INC, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COMPASSION MINISTRIES INC?
- TED & DRAMA RUSSELL FAMILY FOUNDATION C/O EAST TN FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $150,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COMPASSION MINISTRIES INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Tennessee. 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 8 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