Tennessee · Nonprofit
CONNECT MINISTRIES
CONNECT MINISTRIES (Tennessee) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $141,837 to it, the largest being LAWSON FAMILY FOUNDATION ($50,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $432k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $142k
- Net assets
- $369k
What Connect Ministries does
Mission
Glorify God thru the biblical word of God, service and community resources
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
CONNECT MINISTRIES also provided outreach and support services for clients relying on limited grants and cash reserves
$171,872 spentof which $216,850 as grants29% of program spendingCONNECT MINISTRIES also provided contract services in the amount of $160450 to support operations
$160,450 spent27% of program spendingCONNECT MINISTRIES had operating expenses of $152778 to achieve its mission objective
$152,778 spent26% of program spendingCONNECT MINISTRIES also incurred other costs of $52707 to achieve its mission
$52,707 spent9% of program spendingCONNECT Ministries thru a grant from the East TN Development District provided planning and development type services while also serving as a forum for local governments to solve common problems associated with economic development and growth
$46,465 spentof which $49,886 as grants$55,421 earned by the program8% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $584,272.
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 $256k to $664k (+159%).
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: 2024 27% · 2025 32%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
32% of CONNECT MINISTRIES’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue 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 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
Keira Wyatt
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $40k → $90k.
1 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 7% 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 CONNECT 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
CONNECT MINISTRIES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 35% of grant income and the top three 78%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 63% · 2023 56% — 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
53% of CONNECT MINISTRIES's grant income comes from Tennessee funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
CONNECT MINISTRIES has grown faster than three-quarters of the 13,062 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,062 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like CONNECT 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 Tennessee
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
87%
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 CONNECT 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 CONNECT MINISTRIES?
- CONNECT MINISTRIES (Tennessee) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $141,837 to it, the largest being LAWSON FAMILY FOUNDATION ($50,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CONNECT MINISTRIES have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $141,837 in grants to CONNECT MINISTRIES, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CONNECT MINISTRIES?
- LAWSON FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $50,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CONNECT MINISTRIES 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 6 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