Virginia · Nonprofit
GHENT AREA MINISTRY
GHENT AREA MINISTRY (Virginia) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $87,000 to it, the largest being HAMPTON ROADS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($57,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 66% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $163k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $87k
- Net assets
- $52k
What Ghent Area Ministry does
Mission
Ministry to needy persons in ghent area of norfolk va. Gam is a charitable ministry of 15 congregations to meet the needs of the poor distressed underprivileged and homeless who approached member congregations with frequency throughout the year. Gam provides food clothing utility rent rx transportation and other assistance.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Distribution point for food from Food Bank and donated clothing to needy individuals and families. Financial assistance for housing Rx utilities and transportation. Approximately 800 individuals assisted
$86,948 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $86,948.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 $33k to $53k (+61%).
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 GHENT AREA MINISTRY’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (38% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Board chair
Jack Ferguson
Board President
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $5k → $8k.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 66% 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 GHENT AREA MINISTRY’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
GHENT AREA MINISTRY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 66% of grant income and the top three 100%; 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 GHENT AREA MINISTRY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 75% · 2020 68% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
66% of GHENT AREA MINISTRY'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 $30k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Virginia funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $57k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
GHENT AREA MINISTRY has grown faster than three-quarters of the 5,255 housing & shelter nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,255 housing & shelter nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like GHENT AREA MINISTRY
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 Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for GHENT AREA MINISTRY: 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 GHENT AREA MINISTRY?
- GHENT AREA MINISTRY (Virginia) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $87,000 to it, the largest being HAMPTON ROADS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($57,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 66% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does GHENT AREA MINISTRY have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $87,000 in grants to GHENT AREA MINISTRY, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GHENT AREA MINISTRY?
- HAMPTON ROADS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $57,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GHENT AREA MINISTRY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 2 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