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EBENEZER SHEPHERDING MINISTRIES OF AFRICA INC

EBENEZER SHEPHERDING MINISTRIES OF AFRICA INC (Indiana) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $36,921 to it, the largest being MERCY IN DEED INC ($12,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 67% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$261k
Funders on record
6
Grants received
$37k
Net assets
$33k
3/6 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 8%
01What it does

What Ebenezer Shepherding Ministries of Africa Inc does

Mission

To share the love of christ with the people of ethiopia by providing housing,food, education, spiritual encouragement and love for orphans and vulnerable children, and establishing sustainable programs to assist poverty-stricken families to be self-supporting.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. The organization supported ebenezer supporting and development association in hawassa, ethiopia. These funds were used for the following: -to provide housing, food, education, medical care and love for 81 abandoned, orphaned, or vulnerable children and 19 adults. A number of the children have special needs or various disabilities or are orphans who are hiv+ -to provide sponsorhip for 108 adults to attend high school, college, university, or to help with their rent -to provide sponsorship for 11 children to attend school who are not living at the children's home -to help with efforts in making peace between 16 tribes in the southern region of ethiopia. -to collaborate with university students with community service as well as research in order to better serve the community.

    $263,515 spentof which $236,718 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $263,515.

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 ($164k) Expenses 100 ($158k) Net assets 100 ($9k)2018 Revenue 109 ($179k) Expenses 107 ($169k) Net assets 211 ($18k)2019 Revenue 117 ($191k) Expenses 122 ($193k) Net assets 182 ($16k)2020 Revenue 134 ($219k) Expenses 134 ($211k) Net assets 272 ($23k)2021 Revenue 159 ($260k) Expenses 151 ($238k) Net assets 532 ($45k)2022 Revenue 166 ($272k) Expenses 167 ($264k) Net assets 618 ($53k)2023 Revenue 164 ($269k) Expenses 192 ($303k) Net assets 215 ($18k)2024 Revenue 175 ($286k) Expenses 169 ($268k) Net assets 433 ($37k)2025 Revenue 159 ($261k) Expenses 168 ($265k) Net assets 383 ($33k)
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Revenue (159)Expenses (168)Net assets (383)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 2022 to 2023, from $53k to $18k (−65%).

$9k
$18k
$16k
$23k
$45k
$53k
$18k
$37k
$33k
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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 EBENEZER SHEPHERDING MINISTRIES OF AFRICA INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 15,288 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.

$6k
’17
$9k
’18
−$2k
’19
$8k
’20
$22k
’21
$7k
’22
−$34k
’23
$19k
’24
−$4k
’25
1.3
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.

202020212022202320242025
Listed777665
Joined·+0+0+0+0+2
No longer listed·00103
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income fell $4k → $502.

4 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 67% 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 EBENEZER SHEPHERDING MINISTRIES OF AFRICA 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

EBENEZER SHEPHERDING MINISTRIES OF AFRICA INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 33% of grant income and the top three 86%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

99% 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 EBENEZER SHEPHERDING MINISTRIES OF AFRICA INC.

33%
largest funder
86%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2020 46% · 2021 83% · 2022 66% · 2023 57% — 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

67% of EBENEZER SHEPHERDING MINISTRIES OF AFRICA INC'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 $12k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Indiana, across 2 states.

WI
NY

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

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’21
’22
’23
Indiana out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $25k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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

Against its field

EBENEZER SHEPHERDING MINISTRIES OF AFRICA INC's revenue grew 59% between 2017 and 2025.

Operating margin−2% · below the median
Months of reserve1.3mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)6% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,334 religion nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

100% of spending goes to programs.

Program 100%Management 0%Fundraising 0%

Governance

5
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

88%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

IN

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Questions and answers

Who funds EBENEZER SHEPHERDING MINISTRIES OF AFRICA INC?
EBENEZER SHEPHERDING MINISTRIES OF AFRICA INC (Indiana) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $36,921 to it, the largest being MERCY IN DEED INC ($12,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 67% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does EBENEZER SHEPHERDING MINISTRIES OF AFRICA INC have?
IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $36,921 in grants to EBENEZER SHEPHERDING MINISTRIES OF AFRICA INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of EBENEZER SHEPHERDING MINISTRIES OF AFRICA INC?
MERCY IN DEED INC is the largest funder on record, with $12,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like EBENEZER SHEPHERDING MINISTRIES OF AFRICA INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Indiana. 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 6 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