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GOSPEL LAKES MINISTRIES INC

GOSPEL LAKES MINISTRIES INC (Texas) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $412,624 to it, the largest being Calvert Foundation ($121,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$283k
Funders on record
7
Grants received
$413k
Net assets
$1.0M
7/7 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 25%
01What it does

What Gospel Lakes Ministries Inc does

Mission

To provide and operate a recreation facility and retreat for the purpose of spreading the gospel of jesus christ to children and their families

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Weekend camps for inner city children

    $222,927 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $222,927.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($238k) Expenses 100 ($173k) Net assets 100 ($404k)2018 Revenue 75 ($179k) Expenses 103 ($177k) Net assets 100 ($406k)2019 Revenue 86 ($205k) Expenses 113 ($196k) Net assets 103 ($416k)2020 Revenue 80 ($190k) Expenses 101 ($174k) Net assets 107 ($432k)2021 Revenue 181 ($430k) Expenses 105 ($181k) Net assets 168 ($681k)2022 Revenue 194 ($463k) Expenses 140 ($241k) Net assets 223 ($903k)2023 Revenue 125 ($297k) Expenses 120 ($207k) Net assets 245 ($993k)2024 Revenue 119 ($283k) Expenses 137 ($236k) Net assets 257 ($1.0M)
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Revenue (119)Expenses (137)Net assets (257)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 2020 to 2021, from $435k to $690k (+59%).

$407k
$409k
$421k
$435k
$690k
$907k
$1.0M
$1.1M
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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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

95% of GOSPEL LAKES MINISTRIES INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (100% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 15,288 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$65k
’17
$2k
’18
$10k
’19
$16k
’20
$249k
’21
$222k
’22
$90k
’23
$47k
’24
27
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

Bennie Hasha

Exec director secretary

Board chair

Bob Jester

Chairman

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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No longer listed·0001000
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $22k → $66k.

4 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 42% 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 LAKES 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

GOSPEL LAKES MINISTRIES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 29% of grant income and the top three 71%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

42% 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 LAKES MINISTRIES INC.

29%
largest funder
71%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 55% · 2018 50% · 2019 80% · 2020 46% · 2021 61% · 2022 35% · 2023 38% — 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.

Where its funders are

100% of GOSPEL LAKES MINISTRIES INC's grant income comes from Texas funders.

TX

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

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’22
’23
Texas out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $174k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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 LAKES MINISTRIES INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 12,816 religion nonprofits its size.

Operating margin17% · above the median
Months of reserve26.6mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)3% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,816 religion nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Organizations like GOSPEL LAKES MINISTRIES INC

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In Texas

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

89% of spending goes to programs.

Program 89%Management 11%Fundraising 0%

Governance

6
board members
83%
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.

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Questions and answers

Who funds GOSPEL LAKES MINISTRIES INC?
GOSPEL LAKES MINISTRIES INC (Texas) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $412,624 to it, the largest being Calvert Foundation ($121,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does GOSPEL LAKES MINISTRIES INC have?
IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $412,624 in grants to GOSPEL LAKES MINISTRIES INC, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of GOSPEL LAKES MINISTRIES INC?
Calvert Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $121,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like GOSPEL LAKES 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 7 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