Texas · Nonprofit
FAITH & GRIEF MINISTRIES INC
FAITH & GRIEF MINISTRIES INC (Texas) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $435,515 to it, the largest being COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF TEXAS INC ($322,867). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 85% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $730k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $436k
- Net assets
- $999k
What Faith & Grief Ministries Inc does
Mission
Our mission is to provide opportunities for comfort and hope to those that have experienced the death of a loved one.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Faith & Grief Ministries (Faith & Grief) offers programs and curriculum for a collaborative and inclusive outreach with compassion and connection for persons experiencing the death of a loved one. Faith & Grief is a multi-faith organization providing host sites with the program and materials constituting the gathering model, training leadership teams and facilitators for implementation of the model, providing online registration services and other tools as well as a monthly newsletter and ongoing consultation. Faith & Grief also trains facilitators and provides multi-week workshops and weekend retreats for in-depth grief work for cohorts and grief education for the community. Online resources include the Faith & Grief podcast and regular roundtables on grief issues. Faith & Grief operates the Memorial Arch project with a remembrance opportunity in Dallas each holiday season and the installation of the artwork River of Time throughout the community during the year.
$212,152 spent$24,190 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $212,152.
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.
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 $563k to $1.0M (+79%).
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.
95% of FAITH & GRIEF MINISTRIES INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 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
Elizabeth Harling
Executive director
Board chair
Lisa O'Bryant
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $10k → $68k.
5 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 85% 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 FAITH & GRIEF 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.
How concentrated its funding is
FAITH & GRIEF MINISTRIES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 74% of grant income and the top three 89%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
94% 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 FAITH & GRIEF MINISTRIES INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 67% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 93% · 2022 93% · 2023 71% — 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
85% of FAITH & GRIEF MINISTRIES 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 $67k that is directly attributable, 59% of it comes from funders outside Texas, across 2 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $369k 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
FAITH & GRIEF MINISTRIES INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 13,062 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,062 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like FAITH & GRIEF MINISTRIES INC
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
73% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
72%
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 FAITH & GRIEF 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 FAITH & GRIEF MINISTRIES INC?
- FAITH & GRIEF MINISTRIES INC (Texas) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $435,515 to it, the largest being COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF TEXAS INC ($322,867). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 85% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does FAITH & GRIEF MINISTRIES INC have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $435,515 in grants to FAITH & GRIEF MINISTRIES INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FAITH & GRIEF MINISTRIES INC?
- COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF TEXAS INC is the largest funder on record, with $322,867 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FAITH & GRIEF MINISTRIES INC 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 7 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