Tennessee · Nonprofit
GODS DAILY WORD MINISTRIES
GODS DAILY WORD MINISTRIES (Tennessee) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,557,306 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($1,149,861). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 96% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $312k
- Funders on record
- 13
- Grants received
- $1.6M
- Net assets
- $162k
What Gods Daily Word Ministries does
Mission
Ministry services of the sacerdotal functions required of an ordained minister through the internet and by written publications and through evangelism and education in Kenya, Africa as well as the sport - ultrarunning - community in the US. Education in Kenya includes a primary school with 370 kids and 29 staff.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2025 return the organization reported a significant change in how it conducts a program.
In the beginning of 2025, it became clear that much more effort would be required for the Africa portion of this ministry. As a result, it was determined to end the Sport portion of this ministry.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 3).
God's Daily Word Ministries operates and financially supports a Christian school in Mathare, Nairobi, Kenya, providing education, daily meals, school supplies, teacher salaries, utilities, and facility expenses for approximately 370 students from preschool through Grade 9. The ministry also provides scholarships for approximately 45 secondary students, supports selected community assistance projects, and provides oversight and administration of all ministry activities through its Kenya operations.
$308,405 spent90% of program spendingDaily devotional internet ministry. This portion of the ministry includes sending out daily devotional material through email as well as posting material on ministry web site and social media page. Ministry occurs through direct email communication initiated by recipients of the devotional material - most often through questions or requests for prayer. Expenses include direct expenses of web site and email services.
$34,705 spent10% of program spendingWe really only maintain two main functions of the ministry. The first is related to the Africa school and the other is internet services. The only other program service would be the administration necessary for these functions. This expense is reflected in the other service project reports.
$0 spent0% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $343,110.
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 2021 to 2022, from $118k to $184k (+56%).
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 GODS DAILY WORD MINISTRIES’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. 1 of the last 8 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $140k → $217k.
9 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 96% 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 GODS DAILY WORD 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
GODS DAILY WORD MINISTRIES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 74% of grant income and the top three 88%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
96% 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 GODS DAILY WORD MINISTRIES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 81% · 2018 86% · 2019 82% · 2020 88% · 2021 84% · 2022 63% · 2023 62% — 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
71% of GODS DAILY WORD MINISTRIES's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 77% 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
96% of GODS DAILY WORD MINISTRIES'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 $62k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Tennessee, across 4 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
GODS DAILY WORD MINISTRIES is better cushioned than half of the 12,843 religion nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,843 religion nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like GODS DAILY WORD MINISTRIES
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In Tennessee
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
72% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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Questions and answers
- Who funds GODS DAILY WORD MINISTRIES?
- GODS DAILY WORD MINISTRIES (Tennessee) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,557,306 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($1,149,861). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 96% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does GODS DAILY WORD MINISTRIES have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $1,557,306 in grants to GODS DAILY WORD MINISTRIES, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GODS DAILY WORD MINISTRIES?
- NETWORK FOR GOOD is the largest funder on record, with $1,149,861 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GODS DAILY WORD MINISTRIES find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Tennessee. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 13 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