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LUMEN WEDOBELIEVE

LUMEN WEDOBELIEVE (Texas) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $6,500 to it, the largest being GENE & JERRY JONES FAMILY FOUNDATION ($6,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$14k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$7k
Net assets
$13k
0/1 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year
01What it does

What Lumen Wedobelieve does

Mission

To conduct, engage in, and carry on charitable, religious, and scientific purposes

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.

Programs

  1. Established website to promote accelerated evangelism using technology-based strategies.

    $0 spent
  2. Established the boiling river project to promote and support scientific research and education in order to protect the boiling river of the amazon

    $0 spent

The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $0.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($928) Net assets 100 ($2k)2018 Revenue 311 ($3k) Expenses 100 ($784) Net assets 213 ($4k)2019 Revenue 189 ($2k) Expenses 235 ($2k) Net assets 456 ($9k)2020 Revenue 595 ($6k) Expenses 1230 ($10k) Net assets 235 ($4k)2021 Revenue 1382 ($13k) Expenses 539 ($4k) Net assets 696 ($13k)2022 Revenue 1271 ($12k) Expenses 61 ($480) Net assets 1302 ($24k)2023 Revenue 2391 ($22k) Expenses 4335 ($34k) Net assets -27 ($-510)2024 Revenue 1528 ($14k) Expenses 133 ($1k) Net assets 675 ($13k)
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Revenue (1528)Expenses (133)Net assets (675)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $24k to $2k (−90%).

$2k
$4k
$9k
$4k
$13k
$24k
$2k
$16k
'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of LUMEN WEDOBELIEVE’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (99% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 6,261 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$928
’17
$2k
’18
−$94
’19
−$4k
’20
$9k
’21
$11k
’22
−$12k
’23
$13k
’24

Leadership and staff

Chief executive

Andres Ruzo

Executive director

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.

03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'19
total
funders
1

From the IRS filings of LUMEN WEDOBELIEVE’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.

Where its funders are

100% of LUMEN WEDOBELIEVE's grant income comes from Texas funders.

TX

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

LUMEN WEDOBELIEVE has grown faster than three-quarters of the 4,682 youth development nonprofits its size.

Operating margin93% · outside the comparable range
Revenue growth (annualized)48% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,682 youth development nonprofits under $100k, FY2024

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In Texas

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05Profile & governance

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 LUMEN WEDOBELIEVE: 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 LUMEN WEDOBELIEVE?
LUMEN WEDOBELIEVE (Texas) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $6,500 to it, the largest being GENE & JERRY JONES FAMILY FOUNDATION ($6,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does LUMEN WEDOBELIEVE have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $6,500 in grants to LUMEN WEDOBELIEVE.
Who is the largest funder of LUMEN WEDOBELIEVE?
GENE & JERRY JONES FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $6,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like LUMEN WEDOBELIEVE 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 1 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