Alaska · Nonprofit
DESERT STREAMS MINISTRY INC
DESERT STREAMS MINISTRY INC (Alaska) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $236 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($236). 1 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
- $96k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $236
- Net assets
- $6k
What Desert Streams Ministry Inc does
Mission
Desert Streams Ministry is a faith based ministry that seeks to provide encouragement, care, and training for rural evangelical missionary families in Alaska, Canada, and globally. We seek to accomplish this by providing biblical care by regular communication, face-to-face visits, biblical counseling, hospitality, and practical service. We also provide connection for missionary families to other biblical resources. Our mission statement is that we exist to edify, encourage, enrich, and strengthen servants in ministry so they can remain faithfully committed to the spread of the Gospel of Jesus Christ as effectively as possible for as long as possible. We creatively seek ways to do this through a variety of ministry models. We are pastoral care providers, shepherding the hearts and souls of God's people in accordance with I Thessalonians 5:14. Our priorities are global missionaries, pastors, mission organizational leaders, national church leaders, and their families.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
We are blessed to look back at what God has done through Desert Streams Ministry in 2025. We are so thankful to be able to travel again and visit missionaries on their fields of service. We traveled over 26,000 ministry miles on the road this year, as well as visiting missionaries by use of aviation. We were able to also help with buying and shipping supplies, as well as fish (over 1300!) and moose meat for missionaries in the villages. We have served by doing maintenance on vehicles, appliances, houses, helped with mission field conferences, provided child care, and so many other avenues of service. We are also very thankful for opportunities to provide counsel as we interact and serve the missionaries. We were able to host about 20 missionary families for "fish camp" where they can come dipnet for salmon to help fill their freezers. God provided over 1300 salmon for these different missionary families! In addition to the many face-to-face visits, we continue to connect with ministry families through email, text, phone calls, care packages, social media, and more. We were away from home doing ministry 90 days, and had missionaries overnight in our home for about 80 days - that is…
$35,729 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $35,729.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2018 to 2019, from $18k to $9k (−52%).
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 DESERT STREAMS MINISTRY INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Board chair
Mark Mowery
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $44 → $61.
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 STREAMS MINISTRY INC’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 STREAMS MINISTRY INC'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. $236 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 STREAMS MINISTRY INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 6,869 religion nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,869 religion nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like DESERT STREAMS MINISTRY INC
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 Alaska
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
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
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Questions and answers
- Who funds DESERT STREAMS MINISTRY INC?
- DESERT STREAMS MINISTRY INC (Alaska) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $236 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($236). 1 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 STREAMS MINISTRY INC have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $236 in grants to DESERT STREAMS MINISTRY INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DESERT STREAMS MINISTRY INC?
- AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $236 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DESERT STREAMS MINISTRY INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Alaska. 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 2018–2025), 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