Ohio · Nonprofit
ILLUMINATION MINISTRIES INC
ILLUMINATION MINISTRIES INC (Ohio) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $42,355 to it, the largest being HARRY D STEPHENS MEMORIAL INC ($20,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $113k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $42k
- Net assets
- $-5794
What Illumination Ministries Inc does
Mission
Our mission is to bring churched and/or un-churched people to a place where they can enjoy themselves in a christian atmosphere while beginning or furthering their relationship with christ.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Program
To educate people regarding god's love by way of presenting the gospel message through music, song, prayer, religious speakers and other christian events. An annual religious gathering is planned at which god's love and gospel message is presented to those in attendance. Religious counselors will be available to speak with participants and further educate them regarding the importance of a personal relationship with jesus christ. Follow-up with counselors is made available for further education.
$114,102 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $114,102.
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 2021 to 2022, from $22k to $9k (−61%).
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.
55% of ILLUMINATION MINISTRIES INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (62% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $7k → $8k.
1 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 ILLUMINATION 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
ILLUMINATION MINISTRIES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 47% of grant income and the top three 87%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 57% · 2021 57% · 2022 53% · 2023 53% — 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 ILLUMINATION MINISTRIES INC's grant income comes from Ohio funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $105 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
ILLUMINATION MINISTRIES INC's funding base is broadening — from 4 funders to 5 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,990 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like ILLUMINATION 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 Ohio
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ILLUMINATION 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 ILLUMINATION MINISTRIES INC?
- ILLUMINATION MINISTRIES INC (Ohio) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $42,355 to it, the largest being HARRY D STEPHENS MEMORIAL INC ($20,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ILLUMINATION MINISTRIES INC have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $42,355 in grants to ILLUMINATION MINISTRIES INC, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ILLUMINATION MINISTRIES INC?
- HARRY D STEPHENS MEMORIAL INC is the largest funder on record, with $20,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ILLUMINATION MINISTRIES INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. 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 6 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