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Don Meares Ministries Inc

Don Meares Ministries Inc (Maryland) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $3,000 to it, the largest being THE WASHINGTON TIMES FOUNDATION INC ($3,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$33k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$3k
Net assets
$32k
0/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 5%
01What it does

What Don Meares Ministries Inc does

Mission

Teaching pastors and ministries the Word of the Lord and training their staff to conduct meetings on spiritual and financial matters

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. Provide one on one consulting services to pastors from other churches and ministries throughout the United States utilizing the teachings of the Bible and Jesus Christ, our Lord.

    $18,731 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $18,731.

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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($528k) Expenses 100 ($545k) Net assets 100 ($71k)2018 Revenue 13 ($70k) Expenses 12 ($64k) Net assets 19 ($14k)2019 Revenue 12 ($61k) Expenses 8 ($46k) Net assets 40 ($29k)2020 Revenue 5 ($28k) Expenses 5 ($26k) Net assets 42 ($30k)2021 Revenue 6 ($31k) Expenses 6 ($30k) Net assets 44 ($31k)2022 Revenue 6 ($34k) Expenses 5 ($27k) Net assets 53 ($38k)2023 Revenue 9 ($47k) Expenses 11 ($58k) Net assets 39 ($28k)2024 Revenue 13 ($70k) Expenses 13 ($73k) Net assets 35 ($25k)2025 Revenue 6 ($33k) Expenses 5 ($26k) Net assets 45 ($32k)
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Revenue (6)Expenses (5)Net assets (45)Peer revenue range

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 $73k to $54k (−26%).

$71k
$73k
$54k
$45k
$48k
$38k
$28k
$25k
$32k
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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

100% of Don Meares Ministries Inc’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 14,623 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$17k
’17
$6k
’18
$15k
’19
$1k
’20
$1k
’21
$7k
’22
−$10k
’23
−$3k
’24
$7k
’25
2.7
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.

20172018
Listed21
Joined··
No longer listed··
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'19
total
funders
1

From the IRS filings of Don Meares Ministries 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

Don Meares Ministries Inc draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Maryland, across 1 state in all.

DC

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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

Against its field

Don Meares Ministries Inc runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 6,869 religion nonprofits its size.

Operating margin21% · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−29% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,869 religion nonprofits under $100k, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

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

MD

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Don Meares Ministries Inc: 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 Don Meares Ministries Inc?
Don Meares Ministries Inc (Maryland) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $3,000 to it, the largest being THE WASHINGTON TIMES FOUNDATION INC ($3,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Don Meares Ministries Inc have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $3,000 in grants to Don Meares Ministries Inc.
Who is the largest funder of Don Meares Ministries Inc?
THE WASHINGTON TIMES FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $3,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Don Meares Ministries Inc find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maryland. 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 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