Alabama · Nonprofit
FIRST FRUITS MINISTRIES
FIRST FRUITS MINISTRIES (Alabama) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $148,349 to it, the largest being ZYNE FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($45,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $269k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $148k
- Net assets
- $82k
What First Fruits Ministries does
Mission
First Fruits Ministries was formed to provide work for women struggling with homelessness, addictions, poverty and abuse. Our goal is to give a helping hand to women on the road to recovery, to give them new life and new purpose by teaching them to produce quality hand-made products, gift baskets and specialty food items.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
To emphasize the importance and need for work to each resident in order to provide for oneself and ones family, and to experience the powerful healing that comes from god through useful work and creative self- expression
$211,912 spent100% of program spendingTo provide training and employment in an encouraging, compassionate workplace where the special needs of homeless and abused women can be met while maintaining high standards of quality control.
To provide dependable cars to women in need at affordable prices
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $211,912.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2021 to 2022, from $29k to $62k (+113%).
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.
81% of FIRST FRUITS MINISTRIES’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as 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 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $29 → $18k.
3 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 21% 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 FIRST FRUITS 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
FIRST FRUITS MINISTRIES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 30% of grant income and the top three 69%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
46% 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 FIRST FRUITS MINISTRIES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 67% · 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.
How long its funders stay
25% of FIRST FRUITS MINISTRIES's funders are still giving 1 year after their first grant; 50% 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
74% of FIRST FRUITS MINISTRIES's grant income comes from Alabama funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $31k 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.
Against its field
FIRST FRUITS MINISTRIES runs a healthier operating margin than half 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 FIRST FRUITS 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 Alabama
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
84% 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
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FIRST FRUITS 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 FIRST FRUITS MINISTRIES?
- FIRST FRUITS MINISTRIES (Alabama) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $148,349 to it, the largest being ZYNE FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($45,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FIRST FRUITS MINISTRIES have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $148,349 in grants to FIRST FRUITS MINISTRIES, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FIRST FRUITS MINISTRIES?
- ZYNE FAMILY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $45,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FIRST FRUITS MINISTRIES find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Alabama. 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 8 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