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IGNITE MINISTRIES

IGNITE MINISTRIES (Texas) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $117,400 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($62,400). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 62% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$97k
Funders on record
4
Grants received
$117k
Net assets
$38k
1/4 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 25%
01What it does

What Ignite Ministries does

Mission

To help people rethink who god is from the ground up.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Ignite Ministries, dba trading up, has provided a means via direct digital correspondence to help change an individual's view of god by seeing him clearly and enjoying him in the active hours of one's day in fresh ways that create big life changes.

    $86,190 spent$96,604 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $86,190.

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 ($203k) Expenses 100 ($186k) Net assets 100 ($18k)2018 Revenue 86 ($175k) Expenses 69 ($128k) Net assets 338 ($60k)2019 Revenue 55 ($112k) Expenses 69 ($128k) Net assets 248 ($44k)2020 Revenue 53 ($108k) Expenses 50 ($94k) Net assets 326 ($58k)2021 Revenue 58 ($119k) Expenses 37 ($69k) Net assets 603 ($107k)2022 Revenue 29 ($60k) Expenses 47 ($88k) Net assets 441 ($78k)2023 Revenue 16 ($33k) Expenses 34 ($63k) Net assets 274 ($49k)2024 Revenue 23 ($47k) Expenses 36 ($67k) Net assets 163 ($29k)2025 Revenue 48 ($97k) Expenses 47 ($88k) Net assets 214 ($38k)
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Revenue (48)Expenses (47)Net assets (214)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 $58k to $107k (+85%).

$18k
$60k
$44k
$58k
$107k
$78k
$49k
$29k
$38k
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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
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of IGNITE MINISTRIES’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 14,675 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$17k
’17
$47k
’18
−$16k
’19
$14k
’20
$49k
’21
−$29k
’22
−$30k
’23
−$20k
’24
$9k
’25
4.8
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.

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Listed777788887
Joined·+0+0+1+1+1+0+1+0
No longer listed·00101011
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2020: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $51k → $10k.

2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 62% 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 IGNITE 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

IGNITE MINISTRIES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 53% of grant income and the top three 91%; half comes from just 1 funder.

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

62% 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 IGNITE MINISTRIES.

53%
largest funder
91%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 80% · 2018 100% · 2020 100% — growing more concentrated.

“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

62% of IGNITE 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 $45k that is directly attributable, 78% of it comes from funders outside Texas, across 2 states.

DE
TX

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $72k 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

IGNITE MINISTRIES runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 7,232 religion nonprofits its size.

Operating margin9% · above the median
Months of reserve4.8mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−9% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,232 religion nonprofits under $100k, FY2025

Organizations like IGNITE MINISTRIES

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 Texas

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

98% of spending goes to programs.

Program 98%Management 2%Fundraising 0%

Governance

7
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

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

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for IGNITE MINISTRIES: 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 IGNITE MINISTRIES?
IGNITE MINISTRIES (Texas) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $117,400 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($62,400). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 62% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does IGNITE MINISTRIES have?
IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $117,400 in grants to IGNITE MINISTRIES, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of IGNITE MINISTRIES?
NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC is the largest funder on record, with $62,400 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like IGNITE MINISTRIES 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 4 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