North Carolina · Nonprofit
Inspiration Connection Ministries
Inspiration Connection Ministries (North Carolina) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,103,048 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,102,950). 2 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 FY2018
- $26k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $1.1M
- Net assets
- $1.8M
What Inspiration Connection Ministries does
Mission
Teach, disciple, and inspire people to connect to the life of Christ by empowering their faith.
As stated on its FY2018 Form 990.
Program
The organization is a charitable ministry that "teaches and provide Christian values" through its initiative to provide medical supplies, Biblical Couse curriculums to learn and understand how to apply Biblical principles to every day life. (1)The "Marriage Made in Heaven"course is designed to give Biblical understanding of Christ-Centered marriage. This is based on the principle that when there is a lack of understanding of how to make marriage work, it will not only leave the family vulnerable but it will make society vulnerable. The course is designed to remedy and teach. (2) The "Money Matters" course will give an undertanding of not only the purpose of money but how to get more of us, in order to get it through us.
The first program described on its most recent Form 990, which lists programs largest first by expense.
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 2017 to 2018, from $1.8M to $1.8M (−2%).
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.
4% of Inspiration Connection Ministries’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 2 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $902k → $30.
2 of 2 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 Inspiration Connection 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
Inspiration Connection Ministries leans on a few funders — its largest provides 100% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 Inspiration Connection Ministries.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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 Inspiration Connection 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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.1M 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.
Against its field
Inspiration Connection Ministries's revenue fell 96% between 2017 and 2018.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,798 religion nonprofits under $100k, FY2018
Organizations like Inspiration Connection 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 North Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
68% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
0%
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 Inspiration Connection 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 Inspiration Connection Ministries?
- Inspiration Connection Ministries (North Carolina) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,103,048 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,102,950). 2 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 Inspiration Connection Ministries have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $1,103,048 in grants to Inspiration Connection Ministries, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Inspiration Connection Ministries?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $1,102,950 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Inspiration Connection Ministries find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. 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 FY2018 (financials across 2017–2018), and the filings of 2 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