Georgia · Nonprofit
DRIVEN TO ENCOURAGE MINISTRIES
DRIVEN TO ENCOURAGE MINISTRIES (Georgia) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $174,414 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($73,100). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 73% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $324k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $174k
- Net assets
- $29k
What Driven to Encourage Ministries does
Mission
Dtem reaches, teaches and trains students in their journey with christ.they do that by traveling to middle and high schools sharing the message of who christ is. God has broken down walls and allowed eric and his team to bring christ's message to the spiritual clubs at the schools in the greater metropolitan area in atlanta. Eric also has the incredible privilege to disciple young men and pour into them the love of christ to help them in their journey with their savior. One of eric's mottos is "you're not making disciples until your disciples are making disciples"
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Dtem reaches, teaches and trains students in their journey with christ.they do that by traveling to middle and high schools sharing the message of who christ is. God has broken down walls and allowed eric and his team to bring christ's message to the spiritual clubs at the schools in the greater metropolitan area in atlanta. Eric also has the incredible privilege to disciple young men and pour into them the love of christ to help them in their journey with their savior. One of eric's mottos is "you're not making disciples until your disciples are making disciples"
$343,286 spent$323,781 earned by the program100% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $343,286.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2024 to 2025, from $206k to $29k (−86%).
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 DRIVEN TO ENCOURAGE MINISTRIES’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 4 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $20k → $39k.
4 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 73% 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 DRIVEN TO ENCOURAGE 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
DRIVEN TO ENCOURAGE MINISTRIES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 42% of grant income and the top three 91%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
73% 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 DRIVEN TO ENCOURAGE MINISTRIES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 52% — 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.
Where its funders are
73% of DRIVEN TO ENCOURAGE 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 $47k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Georgia funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $127k 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
DRIVEN TO ENCOURAGE MINISTRIES's revenue grew 23% between 2021 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,062 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like DRIVEN TO ENCOURAGE 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
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds DRIVEN TO ENCOURAGE MINISTRIES?
- DRIVEN TO ENCOURAGE MINISTRIES (Georgia) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $174,414 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($73,100). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 73% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does DRIVEN TO ENCOURAGE MINISTRIES have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $174,414 in grants to DRIVEN TO ENCOURAGE MINISTRIES, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DRIVEN TO ENCOURAGE MINISTRIES?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $73,100 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DRIVEN TO ENCOURAGE 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.
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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 2021–2025), 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing