Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
DRY BONES MINISTRIES
DRY BONES MINISTRIES (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $796,116 to it, the largest being J & M DIDONATO FAMILY FOUNDATION ($297,500). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.1M
- Funders on record
- 15
- Grants received
- $796k
- Net assets
- $1.2M
What Dry Bones Ministries does
Program
We are passionate about providing young people with experiences that are engaging, vibrant, and fun which will draw them into a relationship with christ. It's not enough to have "the fun stuff and separate out "the god stuff". This teaches a faith that is separate from so many things that we naturally love: family, friends, sports, leisure, hobbies, and more. The olmc difference is adventure catechesis: intentionally weaving the faith naturally into the exciting and fun activities of camp. The method is the message, and we want to empower young people to bring their faith into everything they do.
$561,474 spent
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-PF.
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 2020 to 2021, from $1.2M to $1.5M (+32%).
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.
Board chair
James A Zern
Board chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-PF.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $25k → $65k.
5 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 26% 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 DRY BONES 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
DRY BONES MINISTRIES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 37% of grant income and the top three 68%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
26% 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 DRY BONES MINISTRIES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 86% · 2021 41% · 2022 50% · 2023 46% — 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
25% of DRY BONES MINISTRIES's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 47% 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
98% of DRY BONES MINISTRIES's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $204k 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
DRY BONES MINISTRIES has grown faster than three-quarters of the 2,399 religion nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,399 religion nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like DRY BONES 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 Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for DRY BONES 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 DRY BONES MINISTRIES?
- DRY BONES MINISTRIES (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $796,116 to it, the largest being J & M DIDONATO FAMILY FOUNDATION ($297,500). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DRY BONES MINISTRIES have?
- IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $796,116 in grants to DRY BONES MINISTRIES, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DRY BONES MINISTRIES?
- J & M DIDONATO FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $297,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DRY BONES MINISTRIES find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 15 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