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GOSPEL ECHOES TEAM ASSOCIATION INC

GOSPEL ECHOES TEAM ASSOCIATION INC (Indiana) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $94,950 to it, the largest being Anabaptist Foundation ($71,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 94% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$1.6M
Funders on record
5
Grants received
$95k
Net assets
$4.0M
3/5 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 1%
01What it does

What Gospel Echoes Team Association Inc does

Mission

Christian ministry to assist prison chaplains, to encourage, evangelize, and disciple prisoners by supplying christian bible studies and literature, graders and volunteers, music,

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Minister to prisoners through music of live concerts and recordings, provide bibles and bible studies, evangelize, encourage, and minister to the spiritual and some physical needs of prisoners who request it through prayer, testimony, and tracts. Activities reach out to inmates in a direct manner to those who request assistance. Currently approximately 74,000 prisoners participate in bible studies and their study notes and quizzes are graded by 700 volunteer graders and employees of the organization. Prisoners benefit from the sharing of bibles, bible study materials, tracts, and christian spiritual truth.

    $906,336 spentof which $2,375 as grants$125,628 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $906,336.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20212021 Revenue 100 ($1.2M) Expenses 100 ($896k) Net assets 100 ($2.0M)2022 Revenue 124 ($1.5M) Expenses 87 ($781k) Net assets 134 ($2.7M)2023 Revenue 111 ($1.3M) Expenses 103 ($925k) Net assets 153 ($3.0M)2024 Revenue 123 ($1.4M) Expenses 108 ($967k) Net assets 177 ($3.5M)2025 Revenue 135 ($1.6M) Expenses 126 ($1.1M) Net assets 200 ($4.0M)
20212022202320242025
Revenue (135)Expenses (126)Net assets (200)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 2024 to 2025, from $3.5M to $4.2M (+19%).

$2.0M
$2.7M
$3.0M
$3.5M
$4.2M
20212022202320242025
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.

2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

56% of GOSPEL ECHOES TEAM ASSOCIATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (93% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 1,394 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

$279k
’21
$676k
’22
$380k
’23
$475k
’24
$461k
’25
29
months of
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.

Chief executive

Glendon Bender

Executive director

Board chair

Wendell Miller

Chairman

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Joined·+0+0+0+0
No longer listed·0000
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $200 → $7k.

3 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 94% 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 GOSPEL ECHOES TEAM ASSOCIATION 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

GOSPEL ECHOES TEAM ASSOCIATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 75% of grant income and the top three 94%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

94% 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 GOSPEL ECHOES TEAM ASSOCIATION INC.

75%
largest funder
94%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 95% · 2021 63% · 2022 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

94% of GOSPEL ECHOES TEAM ASSOCIATION 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. Of the $6k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Indiana, across 2 states.

MO
TN

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

’17
’21
Indiana out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $89k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

GOSPEL ECHOES TEAM ASSOCIATION INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 852 crime & legal nonprofits its size.

Operating margin29% · top quartile
Months of reserve29.2mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)8% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 852 crime & legal nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Organizations like GOSPEL ECHOES TEAM ASSOCIATION INC

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

80% of spending goes to programs.

Program 80%Management 19%Fundraising 0%

Governance

9
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

97%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

IN

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Get Printing Inc · corp_trust

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Questions and answers

Who funds GOSPEL ECHOES TEAM ASSOCIATION INC?
GOSPEL ECHOES TEAM ASSOCIATION INC (Indiana) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $94,950 to it, the largest being Anabaptist Foundation ($71,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 94% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does GOSPEL ECHOES TEAM ASSOCIATION INC have?
IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $94,950 in grants to GOSPEL ECHOES TEAM ASSOCIATION INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of GOSPEL ECHOES TEAM ASSOCIATION INC?
Anabaptist Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $71,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like GOSPEL ECHOES TEAM ASSOCIATION INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Indiana. 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 5 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