Oregon · Nonprofit
DARK HORSE MINISTRIES
DARK HORSE MINISTRIES (Oregon) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $24,531 to it, the largest being WEDGWOOD CIRCLE INSTITUTE ($10,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $91k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $25k
- Net assets
- $-106792
What Dark Horse Ministries does
Mission
The general purpose of Dark Horse Ministries, inc is to implement and foster charitable, religious, educational and/or scientific initiatives primarily within the entertainment and media industries which: promote christian values; help create, provide and manage various types of vehicles, methods, and cultural tools and artifacts for christian influence; and also assist other christian ministries, churches and organizations with similar christian values and objectives working toward similar influences within the entertainment and media industries.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Development of a full feature length film that embodies christian principles: independent artists continued to be employed to develop certain assets that will be needed to produce this film. Development and completion of a full feature length film is a long and expensive process, so this project will be ongoing for sometime.
$15,614 spent12% of program spendingWeekly missional training for staff engaged in video game development that supports the organization's mission: the organization supports staff that are engaged in the video game industry by providing them with training which supports the mission of the organization to the video game industry. Such training engages the staff to train them in christian values and how those values might be promulgated in the video game industry through work relationships, product design, customer encounters, public relations, etc.
$17,101 spent13% of program spendingImladris conference: this industry-wide conference is designed to be a forum for support and engagement for video game industry players such as business people, creatives, producers, etc., who support dark horse ministry's intention to influence the video gaming industry with christian values. This two-and-a half day conference in 2024, attended by approximately 120 people of various ages, genders, experiences, perspectives, locations, and maturity with respect to living out christian values, was the fourth of its kind and received very positive feedback from the attendees insofar as it provided them with collegial and spiritual support in an industry not known for supporting christian values. The conference this year continued to include some higher-level industry participants who may be able to expand the ministry's industry influence. The attendees resoundingly indicated that they would like to see this experience grow and continue. There was significant discussion about how to form more partnerships within this segment of the video game industry and how to better propel and represent christian values. More and larger sponsorships of this event are now expected in the future.
$77,218 spent60% of program spendingDark horse also continues to engage in several other smaller initiatives that seek to expand the organization's christian influence within the entertainment sector, including podcasts, curriculum development, video training tools and participation with other non-profit ministries as volunteers and collaborators for their related activities that enhance dark horse's ability to effect its own programs.
$19,560 spentof which $8,500 as grants15% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $129,493.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 $141k to $95k (−33%).
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 DARK HORSE MINISTRIES’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. 3 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $8k → $0.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 29% 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 DARK HORSE 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
DARK HORSE MINISTRIES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 41% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
69% 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 DARK HORSE MINISTRIES.
“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
DARK HORSE MINISTRIES draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Oregon, across 2 states in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $7k 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
DARK HORSE MINISTRIES has grown faster than three-quarters of the 10,142 religion nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,142 religion nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like DARK HORSE 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 Oregon
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
40%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for DARK HORSE 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 DARK HORSE MINISTRIES?
- DARK HORSE MINISTRIES (Oregon) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $24,531 to it, the largest being WEDGWOOD CIRCLE INSTITUTE ($10,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DARK HORSE MINISTRIES have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $24,531 in grants to DARK HORSE MINISTRIES, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DARK HORSE MINISTRIES?
- WEDGWOOD CIRCLE INSTITUTE is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DARK HORSE MINISTRIES find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Oregon. 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 2021–2024), and the filings of 3 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