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Keys for Kids Ministries Inc

Keys for Kids Ministries Inc (Michigan) receives grants from 30 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,033,965 to it, the largest being The Leppien Foundation ($1,397,400). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$2.1M
Funders on record
30
Grants received
$3.0M
Net assets
$1.6M
21/30 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 26%
01What it does

What Keys for Kids Ministries Inc does

Mission

Keys for Kids exists to ignite a passion for Christ in kids, teens and families worldwide. Our desire is to see every kid, teen and family have an opportunity to respond to the liberating power of the Gospel.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Keys for Kids Ministries produces devotionals called Keys for Kids (children ages 612) and Unlocked (teens 1318) in print, audio, and electronic formats (apps, podcasts, social media, and website). More than 400,000 devotionals were printed in English, Russian, Spanish, and Ukrainian. Audio versions of Keys for Kids devotions were produced in English, Albanian, Arabic, Greek, Macedonian, Nepali, Pashto, and Urdu through our Storyteller program. Hundreds of thousands of people can listen to the Keys for Kids syndicated radio programming on more than 600 radio outlets worldwide. Our programming is also available on Keys for Kids Radio, a full-time radio station for kids at keysforkids.net or on our mobile app. Approximately 40,000 people have downloaded our two mobile apps that allow them to read or listen to our various ministry resources. Our products are also available in our online store.

    $1,225,407 spent$214,924 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,225,407.

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 ($1.1M) Expenses 100 ($1.1M) Net assets 100 ($837k)2019 Revenue 132 ($1.5M) Expenses 126 ($1.4M) Net assets 115 ($960k)2020 Revenue 109 ($1.2M) Expenses 128 ($1.4M) Net assets 94 ($784k)2021 Revenue 174 ($1.9M) Expenses 136 ($1.5M) Net assets 147 ($1.2M)2022 Revenue 163 ($1.8M) Expenses 157 ($1.7M) Net assets 161 ($1.3M)2023 Revenue 236 ($2.6M) Expenses 195 ($2.1M) Net assets 222 ($1.9M)2024 Revenue 142 ($1.6M) Expenses 183 ($2.0M) Net assets 175 ($1.5M)2025 Revenue 193 ($2.1M) Expenses 189 ($2.0M) Net assets 188 ($1.6M)
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Revenue (193)Expenses (189)Net assets (188)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 2022 to 2023, from $1.4M to $1.9M (+35%).

$895k
$1.1M
$961k
$1.3M
$1.4M
$1.9M
$1.6M
$1.7M
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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
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 7% · 2022 0% · 2023 15%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

90% of Keys for Kids Ministries Inc’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (90% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 2,744 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$30k
’17
$97k
’19
−$176k
’20
$450k
’21
$114k
’22
$511k
’23
−$391k
’24
$110k
’25
2.9
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.

Board chair

Duane Culver

Board Chairman

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed97677688
Joined··+0+1+0+0+3+1
No longer listed··100111
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 16 funders, grant income rose $138k → $459k.

9 of 30 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 14% 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 Keys for Kids 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

Keys for Kids Ministries Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% of grant income and the top three 66%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

46%
largest funder
66%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 54% · 2018 37% · 2019 59% · 2020 79% · 2021 45% · 2022 34% · 2023 36% — 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

56% of Keys for Kids Ministries Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 70% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

93% of Keys for Kids Ministries Inc's grant income comes from Michigan funders.

MN
WI
MI
NY
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OH
DE
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FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Michigan out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $422k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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

Keys for Kids Ministries Inc's funding base is broadening — from 9 funders to 16 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin5% · below the median
Months of reserve2.9mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)9% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,325 religion nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Organizations like Keys for Kids 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.

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

61% of spending goes to programs.

Program 61%Management 25%Fundraising 15%

Governance

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

Public support

84%

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds Keys for Kids Ministries Inc?
Keys for Kids Ministries Inc (Michigan) receives grants from 30 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,033,965 to it, the largest being The Leppien Foundation ($1,397,400). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Keys for Kids Ministries Inc have?
IRS filings report 30 organizations giving $3,033,965 in grants to Keys for Kids Ministries Inc, 21 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Keys for Kids Ministries Inc?
The Leppien Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $1,397,400 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Keys for Kids Ministries Inc find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Michigan. 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 30 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