Texas · Nonprofit
FRONTLINES MINISTRIES INC
FRONTLINES MINISTRIES INC (Texas) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $303,756 to it, the largest being RAYMOND JAMES CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT FUND ($168,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $82k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $304k
- Net assets
- $28k
What Frontlines Ministries Inc does
Mission
Religious
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Discipleship - Teach discipleship witin Bible Study groups and individual sessions; provide discipleship to 30+ groups, individuals along with training churches, pastors and ministry leaders. Provide discipleship material.
$3,442 spent41% of program spendingMissions - Frontlines Ministries, Inc continues to support churches abroad by supplying teaching and discipling materials. Periodic mission trips are made to work with the pastors and Leaders in Cuba, Mexico, Nicaragua, El Salvador and Peru.
$4,827 spent58% of program spendingEvangelist - Guest Speaker - Provide evangelistic services to churches and Christian ministries by conducting revival meetings and training classes. Organize outreach events within the college community. Christian speaking engagements.
$105 spent1% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $8,374.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2023 to 2024, from $13k to $51k (+281%).
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.
100% of FRONTLINES MINISTRIES INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Board chair
John D Ely
Chairman/Evangelist
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income fell $37k → $30k.
6 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 FRONTLINES 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
FRONTLINES MINISTRIES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 55% of grant income and the top three 82%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 FRONTLINES MINISTRIES INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 65% · 2018 96% · 2019 76% · 2020 74% · 2021 80% · 2022 81% · 2023 80% — 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.
Where its funders are
100% of FRONTLINES 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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $304k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
FRONTLINES MINISTRIES INC's revenue fell 18% between 2021 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,869 religion nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like FRONTLINES MINISTRIES INC
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In Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
83%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FRONTLINES 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 FRONTLINES MINISTRIES INC?
- FRONTLINES MINISTRIES INC (Texas) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $303,756 to it, the largest being RAYMOND JAMES CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT FUND ($168,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does FRONTLINES MINISTRIES INC have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $303,756 in grants to FRONTLINES MINISTRIES INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FRONTLINES MINISTRIES INC?
- RAYMOND JAMES CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $168,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FRONTLINES 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 2021–2025), 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