Missouri · Nonprofit
Kanakuk Ministries
Kanakuk Ministries (Missouri) receives grants from 69 organizations whose IRS filings report $28,479,933 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($8,786,825). 45 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 86% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2023
- $38M
- Funders on record
- 69
- Grants received
- $28M
- Net assets
- $43M
What Kanakuk Ministries does
Mission
1) To relieve poverty by providing food, clothing, medical supplies, and other basic needs to underprivileged or impoverished children; 2) To advance the Kingdom of God and promote Christian virtue in individuals by providing support for Christian evangelistic organization and programs; 3) To educate children and advance the Kingdom of God by operating camps to teach Christian faith and athletic skills; 4) To assist other religious, charitable, and educational organizations in the conduct of similar activities.
As stated on its FY2023 Form 990.
Program
The Camp Ministries program held camping activities at eight separate camping facilities in FY 2023. In FY 2023, 575 families were served at the K-Kauai Family Kamp. The kid-camps served over 10,082 children and teens. Campers are encouraged to grow in their relationship with the Lord, their families, and their friends. Also, the traveling day camp had 5,224 children participate.
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 $36M to $42M (+17%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 6% · 2023 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
23% of Kanakuk Ministries’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (84% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 7 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 broadened from 20 funders to 30 funders, grant income rose $2.3M → $4.0M.
24 of 69 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 86% 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 Kanakuk Ministries’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 69 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
Kanakuk Ministries has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 31% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
87% 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 Kanakuk Ministries.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 48% · 2018 26% · 2019 43% · 2020 47% · 2021 44% · 2022 30% · 2023 26% — 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
40% of Kanakuk Ministries's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% 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
86% of Kanakuk 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 $3.9M that is directly attributable, 87% of it comes from funders outside Missouri, across 13 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $25M arriving through sponsors registered in 16 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
Kanakuk Ministries's revenue grew 47% between 2017 and 2023.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 234 religion nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2023
Organizations like Kanakuk 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 Missouri
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
94%
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 Kanakuk 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 Kanakuk Ministries?
- Kanakuk Ministries (Missouri) receives grants from 69 organizations whose IRS filings report $28,479,933 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($8,786,825). 45 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 86% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Kanakuk Ministries have?
- IRS filings report 69 organizations giving $28,479,933 in grants to Kanakuk Ministries, 45 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Kanakuk Ministries?
- NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC is the largest funder on record, with $8,786,825 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Kanakuk Ministries 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2023 (financials across 2017–2023), and the filings of 69 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