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DISMAS MINISTRY INC

DISMAS MINISTRY INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $967,938 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($303,004). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$484k
Funders on record
24
Grants received
$968k
Net assets
$805k
15/24 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 46%
01What it does

What Dismas Ministry Inc does

Mission

Our mission is to renew and strengthen the faith of the imprisoned by providing them with free catholic scripture, faith and prayer resources.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Free distribution of catholic spiritual resources to individuals who are incarcerateddismas ministry's primary program service is the free distribution of catholic spiritual resources to individuals who are incarcerated throughout the united states. During the fiscal year, the organization provided bibles, catechisms, prayer books, rosaries, prayer cards, and structured faith-formation study courses in english and spanish to thousands of individuals in prisons, jails, and detention centers.resources were distributed through direct written requests from incarcerated individuals as well as bulk ministry requests from chaplains and prison ministers serving correctional facilities nationwide. These materials support personal prayer, sacramental preparation, faith formation, and spiritual rehabilitation, helping individuals deepen their relationship with god during incarceration.during the fiscal year, dismas ministry provided resources to an estimated 3,500+ individuals who are incarcerated, shipped over 6,000 bibles, and processed an average of 20+ pieces of correspondence per week from incarcerated individuals seeking spiritual support.prison ministry network support and chaplain…

    $244,498 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $244,498.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($317k) Expenses 100 ($359k) Net assets 100 ($335k)2018 Revenue 103 ($326k) Expenses 114 ($410k) Net assets 75 ($252k)2019 Revenue 114 ($361k) Expenses 91 ($325k) Net assets 86 ($287k)2020 Revenue 86 ($273k) Expenses 70 ($251k) Net assets 92 ($309k)2021 Revenue 122 ($387k) Expenses 57 ($206k) Net assets 170 ($569k)2022 Revenue 103 ($327k) Expenses 77 ($277k) Net assets 185 ($619k)2023 Revenue 115 ($364k) Expenses 91 ($326k) Net assets 196 ($657k)2024 Revenue 107 ($338k) Expenses 88 ($314k) Net assets 203 ($680k)2025 Revenue 153 ($484k) Expenses 100 ($359k) Net assets 240 ($805k)
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Revenue (153)Expenses (100)Net assets (240)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $328k to $573k (+74%).

$335k
$252k
$287k
$328k
$573k
$623k
$661k
$699k
$823k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$42k
’17
−$84k
’18
$36k
’19
$22k
’20
$181k
’21
$51k
’22
$37k
’23
$24k
’24
$125k
’25
8.5
months of
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

Juliann Joerres

Executive director

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

The chief executive listed changed between the FY2024 and FY2025 filings.

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Listed1315121212111189
Joined·+6+0+0+5+1+1+2+4
No longer listed·43052153
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $30k → $164k.

5 of 24 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 42% 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 DISMAS 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.

How concentrated its funding is

DISMAS MINISTRY INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 31% 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

44% 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 DISMAS MINISTRY INC.

31%
largest funder
56%
top three
~6
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 67% · 2018 70% · 2019 31% · 2020 30% · 2021 37% · 2022 44% · 2023 38% — 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

69% of DISMAS MINISTRY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

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

DISMAS MINISTRY INC draws 85% of its grant income from funders outside Wisconsin, across 12 states in all.

IL
WI
NV
WY
OH
NJ
MO
KY
VA
DE
TX
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Wisconsin out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $409k 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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like DISMAS 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 Wisconsin

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

68% of spending goes to programs.

Program 68%Management 13%Fundraising 19%

Governance

7
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

WI

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Questions and answers

Who funds DISMAS MINISTRY INC?
DISMAS MINISTRY INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $967,938 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($303,004). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does DISMAS MINISTRY INC have?
IRS filings report 24 organizations giving $967,938 in grants to DISMAS MINISTRY INC, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of DISMAS MINISTRY INC?
NETWORK FOR GOOD is the largest funder on record, with $303,004 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like DISMAS MINISTRY INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Wisconsin. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 24 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