Texas · Nonprofit
ESPERANZA MINISTRIES
ESPERANZA MINISTRIES (Texas) receives grants from 34 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,188,690 to it, the largest being COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF TEXAS INC ($1,368,360). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 56% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.5M
- Funders on record
- 34
- Grants received
- $5.2M
- Net assets
- $3.9M
What Esperanza Ministries does
Mission
Serve the Bachman Lake Community with quality faith-based programs targeting specific community needs, starting with education of parents and children, emotional well-being and material needs.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Elementary School Literacy Program - There are 2 parts to the elementary school literacy program. The first is the After School Reading program, which began in the fall of 2018. This program provides reading intervention for low-income students. The second part of the elementary school literacy program is Summer at the Lake. This summer reading enrichment program for K-5th graders uses trained teenagers as literacy counselors. The program's goal is to help underserved elementary students in Bachman Lake maintain or improve their reading proficiency over the summer. The teen counselors receive leadership and literacy training to run the camps.
$378,271 spent$4,730 earned by the program39% of program spendingEarly Childhood Education Program - Serves low income Hispanic children from Bachman Lake Community with early education classes. This program focuses on language acquisition, pre-math skills, gross and fine motor development, social skills development, and executive function. Parent workshops focus on child development, parent talk (3Ts from thirty million words initiative), play with me, every child ready to read, emotional development, disciplining your child, sleep patterns, and children's health. Each workshop includes practical hands-on applications so that parents and children learn skills together and are equipped to practice these skills at home. Program has a student-to-teacher ratio which allows for individualized attention to each student. Each student's progress is evaluated at the beginning and end of each school year.
$336,547 spent$2,925 earned by the program35% of program spendingAdult Education Program - Provides classes in English, computer literacy, and financial literacy for low income Hispanic adults from the Bachman Lake Community. Over 70% of students who complete the year advance to the next level, which means they have made significant progress in reading, speaking, and writing in English. Students in our classes also receive regular workshops on life skills and such as cultural assimilation, language learning, financial literacy, health, nutrition, depression, grief, family dynamics, school choice, internet safety, and child development. The Bible and prayer are incorporated into all aspects of the program and students are invited, but not forced, to participate in faith-based activities.
$241,179 spent$10,720 earned by the program25% of program spendingPastoral counseling
$4,809 spent$65 earned by the program1% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $960,806.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2022 to 2023, from $218k to $3.9M (+1685%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 13%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
91% of ESPERANZA MINISTRIES’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (72% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 7 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.
Chief executive
Josh Gieger
Executive director
Board chair
Eliot Kerlin
Chairman of the board
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2024 and FY2025 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 18 funders, grant income rose $78k → $1.8M.
10 of 34 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 56% 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 ESPERANZA MINISTRIES’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 34 funders by total. 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
ESPERANZA MINISTRIES has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 26% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
57% 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 ESPERANZA MINISTRIES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 38% · 2018 39% · 2019 51% · 2020 20% · 2021 21% · 2022 64% · 2023 66% — growing more concentrated.
“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
60% of ESPERANZA MINISTRIES's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% 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
56% of ESPERANZA 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 $2.3M that is directly attributable, 95% of it comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.9M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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
ESPERANZA MINISTRIES runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 369 unclassified nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 369 unclassified nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like ESPERANZA 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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
75% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
82%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ESPERANZA 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 ESPERANZA MINISTRIES?
- ESPERANZA MINISTRIES (Texas) receives grants from 34 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,188,690 to it, the largest being COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF TEXAS INC ($1,368,360). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 56% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does ESPERANZA MINISTRIES have?
- IRS filings report 34 organizations giving $5,188,690 in grants to ESPERANZA MINISTRIES, 18 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ESPERANZA MINISTRIES?
- COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF TEXAS INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,368,360 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ESPERANZA MINISTRIES find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 34 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