Oklahoma · Nonprofit
LITTLE ONES MINISTRIES INC
LITTLE ONES MINISTRIES INC (Oklahoma) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $341,390 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE OZARKS INC ($215,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 77% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $308k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $341k
- Net assets
- $14k
What Little Ones Ministries Inc does
Mission
To assist impoverished children and families in the areas of food, necessities, school attendance, tutoring, and/or special classes while sharing Gods Word.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Rios de Esperenza, Jerez, Zacatecas, Mexico Operated outreach programs through local churches. We continued to provide food, summer camps, retreats, vacation bible school, childhood development, sports, music, and arts training. We worked with over 300 children on a daily basis. We helped many families in impoverished areas by teaching them how to take care of their children. Our teams continued to help build a vo-tech center, bakery, and auto maintenance facility. The vineyard was started the previous year. The vines are still too immature for their to be any significant production yet. We are continuing to develop the farm. Buildings and a wall around the property are still in progress.
$78,866 spentof which $45,631 as grants37% of program spendingFirst Baptist Church, Corinto, Nicaragua We provided food and medicines to over 300 families. Our on-site programs warm food, camps, childhood development, sports, music and arts training served over 300 children. We have an extension center, overseen by the Pastor La Costita, where we provide the same services as we have in Corinto ... to less families. We have also expanded our programs to Paso de Lajas in Leon, working with over 100 people there. Our teams helped build 9 houses for 9 families in Corinto for the second year in a row and helped develop outreach programs.
$118,089 spentof which $41,170 as grants56% of program spendingButamira, Uganda We support Ronald Odoi, director of an orphanage with 275 children. We supported their feeding and educational programs for a modest amount each month, and plan to continue expanding our impact there and help them to become self-supporting.
$1,950 spentof which $1,950 as grants1% of program spendingProgram Service Expenses 10,633, Grants and allocations 10,633, Revenue 0 Warm Christmas Project in USA We did 360 backpacks. We only got to hand out 210 in U.S. and handed out the rest in Mexico. The backpacks contain hygiene items, blankets, toys, comb, notebooks, and a ruler. The children were treated to a Christmas party with games, candy, and photo ops with Santa. We provided funds for a used car for a refugee. We provided 6,000 in disaster relief to Mike and Brenda Denton, a family whose home was severly damaged by a tornado. Program Service Expenses 1,977, Grants and allocations 1,350, Revenue 0 Honduras ... we began working with 9 Hope Centers. Three pastors oversee them. We have provided a small amount of money on a monthly basis and they are thriving Mission teams have begun building beds, a project we started, Beds for Honduras.
$12,610 spentof which $11,983 as grants6% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $211,515.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $84k to $40k (−52%).
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 LITTLE ONES MINISTRIES INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 5 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
Michael Denton
CEO/Board Member
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $39k → $106k.
4 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 77% 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 LITTLE ONES 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
LITTLE ONES MINISTRIES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 63% of grant income and the top three 95%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
77% 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 LITTLE ONES MINISTRIES INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 61% · 2018 60% · 2019 100% · 2020 53% · 2021 52% · 2022 65% · 2023 75% — growing more concentrated.
“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
77% of LITTLE ONES MINISTRIES 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 $80k that is directly attributable, 96% of it comes from funders outside Oklahoma, across 2 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $261k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
LITTLE ONES MINISTRIES INC receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $341k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,616 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like LITTLE ONES 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.
In Oklahoma
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
64% 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 LITTLE ONES MINISTRIES 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 LITTLE ONES MINISTRIES INC?
- LITTLE ONES MINISTRIES INC (Oklahoma) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $341,390 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE OZARKS INC ($215,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 77% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does LITTLE ONES MINISTRIES INC have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $341,390 in grants to LITTLE ONES MINISTRIES INC, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LITTLE ONES MINISTRIES INC?
- COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE OZARKS INC is the largest funder on record, with $215,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LITTLE ONES MINISTRIES INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Oklahoma. 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 2020–2024), and the filings of 6 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