Texas · Nonprofit
LEE SHORT MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL INC
LEE SHORT MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL INC (Texas) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $584,741 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($583,000). 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 FY2025
- $291k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $585k
- Net assets
- $197k
What Lee Short Ministries International Inc does
Mission
To communicate and demonstrate god's love in a clear tangible way so people can respond to him. To preach, teach, and do the work of the ministry, reaching families with the gospel of jesus christ without discrimination.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Lee short ministries international seeks to spread god's love through relief/community development, outreach, education and assistance to children in other countries. We operated children's programs and community centers in the towns of mezcales and san vicente, mexico, and three locations in the dominican republic. We partner with and help establish and build national churches and other like minded community based organizations in mexico. 49,468 was given in grants to fund centers in mezcales and sanvicente. These centers help marginal children and their families, serving serve hot food, and providing english classes on a weekly basis with the goal of helping children prepare to get jobs working in the tourist industry. They distribute school supplies and assistance to needy families in the surrounding community. A total of 203 children attend weekly in these programs. There are also special outreaches and events for the communities several times a year with a minimum of 600 that attend such events when they occur. There is a limited program of assistance to help improve the homes of children when they provide insufficient shelter helping one or two families a year put in…
$160,355 spentof which $76,790 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $160,355.
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.
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 $262k to $154k (−41%).
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: 2018 100%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 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 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $36k → $101k.
2 of 3 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 LEE SHORT MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL 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
LEE SHORT MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL INC 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 LEE SHORT MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 99% · 2021 99% · 2022 100% · 2023 99% — 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 LEE SHORT MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL INC'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 $510 that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Texas, across 1 state.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $584k 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.
Organizations like LEE SHORT MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL 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.
In Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
66% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
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 LEE SHORT MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL INC: 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 LEE SHORT MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL INC?
- LEE SHORT MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL INC (Texas) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $584,741 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($583,000). 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 LEE SHORT MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL INC have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $584,741 in grants to LEE SHORT MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LEE SHORT MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $583,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LEE SHORT MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL INC 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.
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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