California · Nonprofit
Living Shield Ministries
Living Shield Ministries (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $102,000 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($57,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 66% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $101k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $102k
- Net assets
- $87k
What Living Shield Ministries does
Mission
Religious Chaplain Services Chaplain Training Ordination of Chaplains
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Provided Chaplain Services - first responders police fire DA office hospice hospital disaster responses webservices for online support articles for training and nationwide chaplain support to chaplains in service and chaplain supports in trainings
$39,400 spent49% of program spendingChaplain Training Courses - training chaplains and crisis response individuals in basic trauma and crisis services. 11,620 student hours of training in 2025 includes website for registration marketing and chaplains onsite for class support and training
$24,500 spent31% of program spendingChaplain Certification Ordination - 18 newly certified ordained Chaplains each with 100 hours of training including trauma crisis mandated reporter references pastoral referral background checks to ensure abaility to qualify for service in first responder care facilities
$15,980 spent20% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $79,880.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 $53k to $82k (+54%).
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.
62% of Living Shield Ministries’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue 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. 2 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Lynne Brockmeier
Chaplain ExecDir Op Instructor
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $12k → $8k.
2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 66% 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 Living Shield 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
Living Shield Ministries leans on a few funders — its largest provides 56% 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
66% 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 Living Shield Ministries.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 67% · 2018 83% · 2019 100% · 2020 45% · 2021 58% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — 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
66% of Living Shield 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 $35k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $67k 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
Living Shield Ministries runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 7,334 religion nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,334 religion nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Living Shield 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
96%
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 Living Shield 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 Living Shield Ministries?
- Living Shield Ministries (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $102,000 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($57,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 66% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Living Shield Ministries have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $102,000 in grants to Living Shield Ministries, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Living Shield Ministries?
- NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC is the largest funder on record, with $57,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Living Shield 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 2019–2025), 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