Missouri · Nonprofit
HIDDEN BLUFF MINISTRIES INC
HIDDEN BLUFF MINISTRIES INC (Missouri) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $231 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($231). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $475k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $231
- Net assets
- $678k
What Hidden Bluff Ministries Inc does
Mission
Line 4a. Program service accomplishmentsthe organization provides training to individuals and groups that travel on mission trips to various overseas locations. Training provided includes teaching individuals how to acclimate themselves to the minimal resources which will be available overseas and familiar themselves with such a environment in which they will work. About 350 people took part in educational culture tours. In addition, the organization has produced the hope video project, which is used as a tool to bring the gospel of jesus to the unreached. Other film projects are being developed to reach the native americans. Line 4a program service accomplishments (continued)also, the organization provides a challenging ropes course for local groups to encourage learning, trust, and leadership skills which will be used to accomplish common goals. The organization hosts international day which is for incoming local college and university international students. Over 350 students participated. Food, music, and entertainment is provided as a means of fellowship and support for the new students. Finally, the organization continues to provide space to be used as a retreat setting for…
As stated on its FY2023 Form 990.
Programs
The organization has produced the Hope Video Project in over 70 languages and is in the process of producing numerous additional languages. The Hope Film is used as a tool to bring the gospel of Jesus Christ to the unreached. The organization also provides training to individuals and groups that travel on mission trips to various overseas locations. Training includes how to acclimate to the minimal resources available in many overseas countries and familiarization with working in different cultures and environments. The organization provides a challenging ropes course for groups to develop trust and leadership skills to accomplish common goals within the group.
$346,000 spent$128,868 earned by the program98% of program spendingThe organization hosts International Day which is for incoming local college and university students who have come from countries around the world to study in the USA. Food, music and entertainment is provided as a means of fellowship and support for the new students. Various community groups provide information and guidance to the students to assist them in acclimating to their new surroundings in the area.
$6,512 spent$7,408 earned by the program2% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $352,512.
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 2020 to 2021, from $445k to $533k (+20%).
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.
53% of HIDDEN BLUFF MINISTRIES INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue 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 9 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.
Board chair
Hosea Bilyeu
Board Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $38 → $98.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 HIDDEN BLUFF 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.
Where its funders are
100% of HIDDEN BLUFF MINISTRIES 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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $231 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
HIDDEN BLUFF MINISTRIES INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 7,334 religion nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,334 religion nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like HIDDEN BLUFF 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 Missouri
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds HIDDEN BLUFF MINISTRIES INC?
- HIDDEN BLUFF MINISTRIES INC (Missouri) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $231 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($231). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does HIDDEN BLUFF MINISTRIES INC have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $231 in grants to HIDDEN BLUFF MINISTRIES INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HIDDEN BLUFF MINISTRIES INC?
- AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $231 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HIDDEN BLUFF MINISTRIES INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Missouri. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 1 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