Georgia · Nonprofit
Desire Street Ministries
Desire Street Ministries (Georgia) receives grants from 52 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,943,426 to it, the largest being GIVEWELL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($1,200,000). 33 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 60% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.5M
- Funders on record
- 52
- Grants received
- $4.9M
- Net assets
- $3.9M
What Desire Street Ministries does
Mission
To love our neighbor by revitalizing under-resourced neighborhoods through spiritual and community development.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Coach and care - desire street strategically encourages, equips and connects leaders. This creates the long-term impact necessary for neighborhood revitalization. Through 3-5 year partnerships, we journey alongside leaders and their organizations to ensure they thrive in leadership, organizational health, and ministry effectiveness. To reach this goal, we offer our partners intensive training, coaching and mentoring, retreats, and counseling.
$724,567 spent78% of program spendingInvest and revitalize - desire street supports leaders through board development, fundraising, coaching, and assessments to gauge organizational health. We seek to steward funds well through prudent budgeting and strategic investments. We provide resources and counsel to a wider range of community leaders who seek our expertise.
$79,374 spent9% of program spendingEducate and engage - desire street gathers and directs resources toward the goal of revitalizing under-resourced neighborhoods. We raise awareness of the overwhelming challenges, and celebrate successes, with thousands of kids and families impacted. This engages community advocates, and creates social capital for the fight against poverty in our cities. Desire street serves as the intersection of lives, leaders and neighborhoods.
$123,475 spent13% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $927,416.
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 2018 to 2019, from $7.9M to $3.1M (−61%).
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: 2017 16% · 2018 1% · 2019 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
95% of Desire Street Ministries’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (90% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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
Danny Wuerffel
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 18 funders to 20 funders, grant income rose $498k → $520k.
16 of 52 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 60% 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 Desire Street Ministries’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 52 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
Desire Street Ministries has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 24% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
72% 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 Desire Street Ministries.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 30% · 2018 28% · 2019 30% · 2020 20% · 2021 40% · 2022 29% · 2023 24% — 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.
How long its funders stay
50% of Desire Street Ministries's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
60% of Desire Street Ministries'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. Of the $2.0M that is directly attributable, 52% of it comes from funders outside Georgia, across 11 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 states 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
Desire Street Ministries runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 1,325 religion nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,325 religion nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like Desire Street 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 Georgia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
74% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
91%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 41 states
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- The Wuerffel Foundation · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Desire Street 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 Desire Street Ministries?
- Desire Street Ministries (Georgia) receives grants from 52 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,943,426 to it, the largest being GIVEWELL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($1,200,000). 33 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 60% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Desire Street Ministries have?
- IRS filings report 52 organizations giving $4,943,426 in grants to Desire Street Ministries, 33 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Desire Street Ministries?
- GIVEWELL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,200,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Desire Street Ministries find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Georgia. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 52 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing