Tennessee · Nonprofit
GRACEWORKS MINISTRIES INC
GRACEWORKS MINISTRIES INC (Tennessee) receives grants from 82 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,365,426 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC ($957,711). 44 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $9.9M
- Funders on record
- 82
- Grants received
- $5.4M
- Net assets
- $5.5M
What Graceworks Ministries Inc does
Mission
Share god's grace through food, shelter, and support.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Food: providing food to families experiencing crisis or poverty through five access points: food pantry, mobile food pantries, holiday food boxes, student weekend food bags, and classroom snack boxes.
$5,438,283 spent$891,678 earned by the program63% of program spendingShelter: providing families access to temporary shelter through rent and mortgage assistance, utility service payment assistance, and household items such as furniture, heaters, and air conditioners.
$2,530,958 spent$919,652 earned by the program30% of program spendingSupport: providing access to additional resources including home goods, clothing, christmas gifts, newborn supplies, gas cards, counseling referrals, and access to our network of partner organizations.
$605,230 spent$219,917 earned by the program7% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $8,574,471.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2022 to 2023, from $5.8M to $7.8M (+36%).
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.
71% of GRACEWORKS MINISTRIES INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (81% 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.
Chief executive
Alicia Bell
CEO
Board chair
Rodney Chester
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 14 funders to 31 funders, grant income rose $439k → $688k.
20 of 82 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 44% 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 GRACEWORKS MINISTRIES INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 82 funders by total. 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
GRACEWORKS MINISTRIES INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 18% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
68% 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 GRACEWORKS MINISTRIES INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 68% · 2018 39% · 2019 18% · 2020 21% · 2021 21% · 2022 24% · 2023 33% — 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
44% of GRACEWORKS MINISTRIES INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% 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
88% of GRACEWORKS MINISTRIES INC's grant income comes from Tennessee funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 17 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
GRACEWORKS MINISTRIES INC is better cushioned than half of the 7,349 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,349 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like GRACEWORKS MINISTRIES INC
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 Tennessee
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for GRACEWORKS MINISTRIES INC: 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 GRACEWORKS MINISTRIES INC?
- GRACEWORKS MINISTRIES INC (Tennessee) receives grants from 82 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,365,426 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC ($957,711). 44 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GRACEWORKS MINISTRIES INC have?
- IRS filings report 82 organizations giving $5,365,426 in grants to GRACEWORKS MINISTRIES INC, 44 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GRACEWORKS MINISTRIES INC?
- UNITED WAY OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC is the largest funder on record, with $957,711 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GRACEWORKS MINISTRIES INC 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 FY2025 (financials across 2018–2025), and the filings of 82 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