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KOLBE PRISON MINISTRIES

KOLBE PRISON MINISTRIES (Texas) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $69,416 to it, the largest being MAREK FAMILY FOUNDATION ($31,350). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$277k
Revenue FY2024
7
Funders on record
$69k
Grants received
$222k
Net assets
4/7 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 24%

Against its field

KOLBE PRISON MINISTRIES has grown faster than three-quarters of the 12,796 religion nonprofits its size.

Operating margin21% · above the median
Months of reserve12.2mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)57% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,796 religion nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($46k) Expenses 100 ($53k) Net assets 100 ($37k)2021 Revenue 71 ($33k) Expenses 49 ($26k) Net assets 119 ($44k)2022 Revenue 874 ($402k) Expenses 134 ($71k) Net assets 1237 ($455k)2023 Revenue 272 ($125k) Expenses 800 ($422k) Net assets 445 ($163k)2024 Revenue 602 ($277k) Expenses 414 ($219k) Net assets 603 ($222k)
20202021202220232024
Revenue (602)Expenses (414)Net assets (603)Peer revenue range

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.

2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

89% of KOLBE PRISON MINISTRIES’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (100% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 15,235 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

$7k
20
$7k
21
$331k
22
$297k
23
$58k
24
12
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $21k → $5k.

3 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)45% 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 KOLBE PRISON 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

KOLBE PRISON MINISTRIES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 45% of grant income and the top three 89%; half comes from just 2 funders.

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

52% 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 KOLBE PRISON MINISTRIES.

45%
largest funder
89%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 78% · 2019 100% · 2020 54% · 2021 74% · 2022 100% · 2023 3%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

96% of KOLBE PRISON MINISTRIES's grant income comes from Texas funders.

IL
LA
TX

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

17
18
20
21
Texas out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $31k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 7 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like KOLBE PRISON MINISTRIES

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Texas

Nationally

04Profile & 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

18
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited 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 KOLBE PRISON 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 KOLBE PRISON MINISTRIES?
KOLBE PRISON MINISTRIES (Texas) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $69,416 to it, the largest being MAREK FAMILY FOUNDATION ($31,350). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does KOLBE PRISON MINISTRIES have?
IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $69,416 in grants to KOLBE PRISON MINISTRIES, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of KOLBE PRISON MINISTRIES?
MAREK FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $31,350 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like KOLBE PRISON 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.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 7funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing