Alabama · Nonprofit
M-POWER Ministries
M-POWER Ministries (Alabama) receives grants from 30 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,950,981 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($481,980). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.1M
- Funders on record
- 30
- Grants received
- $2.0M
- Net assets
- $1.4M
What M-POWER Ministries does
Mission
To provide opportunities for people to break the cycle of poverty through education and health.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
The M-POWER Health Center is an innovative medical care model for low-income adults who are without health insurance. The Health Center provides free medical care through its evening acute care clinic and a morning, appointment-only Caring Clinic for patients with chronic diseases such as hypertension and diabetes. The Caring Clinic offers physician care, medications, case management, health education, and supportive services in one location. All services are free.
$465,766 spentof which $67,310 as grants$833 earned by the program61% of program spendingThe M-POWER Education Center offers a series of academically-appropriate programs and services that meet the needs of adults who lack basic educational skills and/or credentials crucial for overall success. Our goals are to provide low-income and disadvantaged adults with (1) the instruction, support, and confidence necessary to increase their basic literacy and educational levels, (2) the instruction, skills, and practice necessary to expand their career readiness, and (3) the core life skills needed to help them obtain and retain employment, financial stability, and an overall greater quality of life.
$300,014 spent39% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $765,780.
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.
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 $792k to $2.0M (+152%).
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: 2017 4% · 2018 2% · 2019 2% · 2020 15% · 2021 4% · 2022 4% · 2023 4% · 2024 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of M-POWER Ministries’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (81% for the typical peer).
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
C Dalton Smith
Executive Director
Board chair
Cindy Bembry
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 13 funders to 14 funders, grant income rose $168k → $246k.
8 of 30 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 53% 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 M-POWER Ministries’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 27 of 30 funders by total. 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
M-POWER Ministries has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
63% 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 M-POWER Ministries.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 23% · 2018 18% · 2019 19% · 2020 19% · 2021 21% · 2022 36% · 2023 44% — 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.
How long its funders stay
68% of M-POWER Ministries's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 73% 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
53% of M-POWER 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 $917k that is directly attributable, 90% of it comes from Alabama funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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
M-POWER Ministries runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 11,274 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,274 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like M-POWER 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 Alabama
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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 M-POWER 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 M-POWER Ministries?
- M-POWER Ministries (Alabama) receives grants from 30 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,950,981 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($481,980). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does M-POWER Ministries have?
- IRS filings report 30 organizations giving $1,950,981 in grants to M-POWER Ministries, 22 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of M-POWER Ministries?
- NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC is the largest funder on record, with $481,980 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like M-POWER Ministries find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Alabama. 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 30 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing