California · Nonprofit
Desert Apologetics
Desert Apologetics (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $6,000 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($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 FY2025
- $61k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $6k
- Net assets
- $5k
What Desert Apologetics does
Mission
This corporation is a religious corporation and is not organized for the private gain of any person. It is organized under the Nonprofit Religious Corporation Law exclusively for religious purposes. The specific purpose of this corporation is to organize sponsor and promote apologetics events to bring Biblical clarity provide a safe space to ask questions and a gracious learning community anchored in the hope of Christ.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Organized an annual conference and organized volunteers to create educational videos. The event 192 people and households in person and online in 21 states and 4 countries in addition online video content created from the conference.
$58,461 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $58,461.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 1 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 Desert Apologetics’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.
Where its funders are
100% of Desert Apologetics'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. $6k 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
Desert Apologetics receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $6k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,869 religion nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like Desert Apologetics
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Desert Apologetics: 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 Desert Apologetics?
- Desert Apologetics (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $6,000 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($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 Desert Apologetics have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $6,000 in grants to Desert Apologetics.
- Who is the largest funder of Desert Apologetics?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND 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 Desert Apologetics find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2025–2025), and the filings of 1 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