California · Nonprofit
LEAST OF THESE MINISTRIES
LEAST OF THESE MINISTRIES (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $862 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($522). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 72% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $65k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $862
- Net assets
- $23k
What Least of These Ministries does
Mission
Providing health and hope to forgotten people. Connecting the talent and resources and God's Kingdom with our brothers and sisters left out of this world's goods.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Least of These Ministries continues to strive toward the goals of sustainability and self reliance, relying upon the generosity of our patrons and the perseverance of those we help in order to keep projects moving forward. Pastor Jesse has described our two facilities, Pleasant Places and Kariba, as "life-serving properties", extolling the virtues of education, empathy and empowerment. Our agricultural programs have blossomed from the education that was provided to Pastor Jesse, who has created numerous training programs, and is now providing nutrition to our elderly community members as well as a dedicated conservation farming program that promotes sustainability and combats climate change. Your gifts and donations have also helped repair the school roof in Nyamhunga, the floors of the church in Karba and sustained the efforts of creating wells in Mansasia. Least of These Ministries and the people we help in Zimbabwe continue to be thankful and blessed by the financial and spiritual stewardship of our American collaborators. We look forward to a better 2024 and pray for the health, safety and betterment of our entire Least of These family.
$88,381 spentof which $65,290 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $88,381.
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 2023 to 2024, from $8k to $46k (+475%).
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.
100% of LEAST OF THESE MINISTRIES’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations 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. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Myrna M Mclaughlin
Founder/executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $100 → $99.
2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 72% 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 LEAST OF THESE 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
LEAST OF THESE MINISTRIES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 61% 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
72% 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 LEAST OF THESE MINISTRIES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2020 74% · 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
72% of LEAST OF THESE 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 $240 that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside California, across 1 state.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $622 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
LEAST OF THESE MINISTRIES has grown faster than half of the 9,787 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,787 human services nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like LEAST OF THESE 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 California
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.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LEAST OF THESE 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 LEAST OF THESE MINISTRIES?
- LEAST OF THESE MINISTRIES (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $862 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($522). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 72% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does LEAST OF THESE MINISTRIES have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $862 in grants to LEAST OF THESE MINISTRIES, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LEAST OF THESE MINISTRIES?
- AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $522 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LEAST OF THESE MINISTRIES find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 3 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