California · Nonprofit
Discovering Truth Ministries
Discovering Truth Ministries (California) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $283,941 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($251,350). 3 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
- $316k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $284k
- Net assets
- $347k
What Discovering Truth Ministries does
Mission
An Evangelical Christian Ministry focusing on preaching,teaching,discipling and providing life applications of the Holy Bible by honoring the teachings of Jesus Christ through conferences, books, Biblical study materials and daily devotionals. Messages and lessons are also distributed through print, broadcasting, social media and any other form of electronic or print delivery where permissable.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Books and Resources:During the filing year, Discovering Truth Ministries, through Jamie Adele Wood, saw the release of two major book projects. From Barrier to Breakthrough: Finding God in Our Wondering, Wandering, and Wounding became an Amazon best-seller and has already impacted countless lives through testimonies of spiritual renewal and healing. A second book, Truth Talk for Hurting Hearts, co-authored with Dawn Wilson, provides encouragement to those walking through trials and suffering. In addition, our flagship Bible study Flourish continues to bear fruit in churches across the country, with over 1,200 workbooks sold to date. An idea for a new seasonal resource, Prepare Him Room, an Advent card set is underway, designed to draw individuals and families closer to Christ during Christmas.Resource distribution has grown to over 1,250 resource orders to date, shipped to 49 states and 3 countries, a figure that does not include the many books and materials sold at conferences and live events. The daily Truth Talk devotional now reaches 16,500 subscribers by email, an increase of 50 percent over the prior year. Through print and digital resources, Discovering Truth Ministries…
$224,480 spent78% of program spendingRadio and Digital Ministry:The ministry's one-minute Truth Talk radio segments continue to air internationally in three countries, providing concise biblical encouragement to a broad listening audience. The ministry's digital reach expanded significantly during the year. It now has 20,000 people subscribed to ministry update emails, a Facebook following that grew to 9,748 (a 30 percent increase), and an Instagram following that grew to 2,190. Discovering Truth Ministries has also been posting regularly to its YouTube channel, where each new video averages more than 900 views within the first week. Ongoing production and distribution of video and audio resources round out the ministry's growing digital presence.
$43,169 spent15% of program spendingConferences and Speaking Engagements:Live teaching and speaking remain central to the ministry's work. During the filing year, founder Jamie Adele Wood spoke 15 times, spanning both the East and West coasts of the United States, reaching women through conferences, Bible studies, and special events. She also continued teaching a weekly Wednesday evening Bible study at her home church, which launched with 240 members. The ministry operates from its headquarters in Santee, California, with 6 paid staff and 14 regular volunteers, including a 6-person monthly in-office prayer team. Testimonies from participants consistently point to the impact of these gatherings, where biblical truth is communicated with clarity, encouragement, and practical application.Through these avenues, Discovering Truth Ministries has seen 86 women make first-time commitments to follow Jesus during the year, and those are only the decisions the ministry is aware of. Founder Jamie Adele Wood was also invited by nationally recognized women's ministry leader Nancy DeMoss to join a small group of emerging speakers and teachers at the annual Revive Our Hearts conference, an opportunity for mentorship and…
$20,145 spent7% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $287,794.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2022 to 2023, from $229k to $333k (+45%).
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.
91% of Discovering Truth Ministries’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. 1 of the last 6 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
Jamie Adele Wood
President & CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose $27k → $103k.
4 of 5 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 Discovering Truth 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
Discovering Truth Ministries leans on a few funders — its largest provides 89% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 Discovering Truth Ministries.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 98% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
100% of Discovering Truth 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 $275 that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside California, across 1 state.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $284k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
Discovering Truth Ministries has grown faster than three-quarters of the 7,850 religion nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,850 religion nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Discovering Truth 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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
90%
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 Discovering Truth 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 Discovering Truth Ministries?
- Discovering Truth Ministries (California) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $283,941 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($251,350). 3 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 Discovering Truth Ministries have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $283,941 in grants to Discovering Truth Ministries, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Discovering Truth Ministries?
- NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC is the largest funder on record, with $251,350 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Discovering Truth Ministries 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.
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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 2020–2025), and the filings of 5 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