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GEMS MINISTRIES INC

GEMS MINISTRIES INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $1,800 to it, the largest being The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc ($1,800). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$6k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$2k
Net assets
$3k
1/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 8%
01What it does

What Gems Ministries Inc does

Mission

Empowering young girls

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. Donations drive - galentines fundraiser

    $105 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $105.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20192019 Revenue 100 ($4k) Expenses 100 ($4k) Net assets 0 ($0)2020 Revenue 192 ($7k) Expenses 165 ($6k) Net assets 100 ($2k)2021 Revenue 215 ($8k) Expenses 195 ($7k) Net assets 109 ($2k)2022 Revenue 218 ($8k) Expenses 142 ($5k) Net assets 236 ($4k)2024 Revenue 62 ($2k) Expenses 115 ($4k) Net assets 120 ($2k)2025 Revenue 161 ($6k) Expenses 124 ($5k) Net assets 159 ($3k)
201920202021202220242025
Revenue (161)Expenses (124)Net assets (159)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 2021 to 2022, from $2k to $4k (+115%).

$1k
$2k
$2k
$4k
$2k
$3k
201920202021202220242025
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.

2019
2020
2021
2022
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of GEMS MINISTRIES INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,557 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

−$193
’19
$607
’20
$331
’21
$2k
’22
−$2k
’24
$1k
’25

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.

Board chair

Leslie K Mcelhaney

Chairman

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2021 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $550 → $650.

Funder
'21
'22
'23
total
funders
1
1
1

From the IRS filings of GEMS 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.

Where its funders are

GEMS MINISTRIES INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Pennsylvania, across 1 state in all.

NC

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

’21
’22
’23
Pennsylvania out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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

GEMS MINISTRIES INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 10,305 human services nonprofits its size.

Operating margin19% · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)8% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,305 human services nonprofits under $100k, FY2025

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In Pennsylvania

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05Profile & governance

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

Public support

100%

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds GEMS MINISTRIES INC?
GEMS MINISTRIES INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $1,800 to it, the largest being The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc ($1,800). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does GEMS MINISTRIES INC have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $1,800 in grants to GEMS MINISTRIES INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of GEMS MINISTRIES INC?
The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $1,800 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like GEMS MINISTRIES INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 1 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing