Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
LIBERTY MINISTRIES
LIBERTY MINISTRIES (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $369,127 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($191,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 65% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $12M
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $369k
- Net assets
- $8.0M
What Liberty Ministries does
Mission
The ministry exists to serve offenders in prison and ex-offenders in the community by showing god's love, providing practical assistance, and supporting biblical standards of justice.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Prison ministry utilizes the services of more than 150 volunteers who visit men and women in prison to teach, train, and mentor inmates. Some of the ongoing programs offered by our prison ministry include: weekly bible studies, one-on-one christian counseling, pre-release classes, and sunday worship services. The prison ministry also includes our lydia bag program for women, our annual christmas bag project for all those incarcerated at the montgomery county correctional facility and our summer camp scholarship program for children of inmates and former inmates.
$732,346 spent7% of program spendingLiberty house is our christ-centered male residential facility located in the heart of schwenksville. There are eight dormitory rooms for phase one residents and five apartments for phase two residents and staff. Liberty house can accommodate up to 18 residents. Phase one is an intensive twelve-month discipleship program, designed to equip men for successful reintegration into the community. Programming includes biblically-centered education, counseling, life skills training, and employment. Phase two offers men who have successfully completed phase one the opportunity to reside in an on-site apartment for up to two years, providing them with continued moral support, biblically-centered education, and counseling while learning to live independently.
$1,008,427 spent$109,488 earned by the program9% of program spendingThrift stores provide support for our residential and prison ministry, while providing job skills training and employment for the residents of liberty house and those on work-release while in prison. Our six stores have become a mission field in themselves. They provide employment for over 100 people and offer quality recycled clothing and home furnishings.
$9,198,057 spent$10,981,132 earned by the program82% of program spendingAnn's house is our christ-centered female residential facility located in green lane. There are five dormitory rooms for a single-phase program administered in a residential house. The program is an intensive twelve-month discipleship program, designed to equip women for successful reintegration into the community. The curriculum includes biblically-centered education, counseling, life skills training, and employment.
$256,700 spent$22,272 earned by the program2% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $11,195,530.
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 2021 to 2022, from $7.5M to $18M (+146%).
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: 2020 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 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.
Chief executive
Ken Rush
CEO
Board chair
Randy Moyer
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $21k → $109k.
4 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 65% 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 LIBERTY 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
LIBERTY MINISTRIES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 52% of grant income and the top three 91%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
65% 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 LIBERTY MINISTRIES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 98% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 43% · 2022 99% · 2023 72% — 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
25% of LIBERTY MINISTRIES's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% 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
65% of LIBERTY 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 $128k that is directly attributable, 96% of it comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $242k 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.
Organizations like LIBERTY 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 Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
95% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LIBERTY 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 LIBERTY MINISTRIES?
- LIBERTY MINISTRIES (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $369,127 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($191,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 65% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does LIBERTY MINISTRIES have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $369,127 in grants to LIBERTY MINISTRIES, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LIBERTY MINISTRIES?
- NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC is the largest funder on record, with $191,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LIBERTY MINISTRIES find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 9 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