Georgia · Nonprofit
MERELY HUMAN MINISTRIES
MERELY HUMAN MINISTRIES (Georgia) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $54,303 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($38,400). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $131k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $54k
- Net assets
- $70k
What Merely Human Ministries does
Mission
To equip pro-life advocates to defend the dignity of life.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Public Speaking Events: 15 training and equipping talks to live audiences on Making a Case for Life, Who is Our Neighbor?, Who Counts as One of Us? and so on to churches, schools, and charitable organization including Q&A. Approximate total audience members 7,000.
$11,305 spent17% of program spendingPublished Articles: Articles in Christian Research Journal with accompanying podcasts and online content. Review of abortion in popular culture/films; radio interviews, podcasts, web training with ministry partners. Approximate audience 750,000.
$24,893 spent38% of program spendingWeb content: blog posts, social media, collaborative efforts with ministry partners, and interviews. Total estimated audience 400,000.
$29,101 spent45% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $65,299.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2024 to 2025, from $17k to $70k (+318%).
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 MERELY HUMAN MINISTRIES’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (99% 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.
Leadership and staff
Board chair
Chad Holland
Board Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $6k → $18k.
3 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 MERELY HUMAN 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
MERELY HUMAN MINISTRIES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 71% 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
100% 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 MERELY HUMAN MINISTRIES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 56% — 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.
Where its funders are
100% of MERELY HUMAN 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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $54k 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.
Against its field
MERELY HUMAN MINISTRIES runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 904 civil rights nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 904 civil rights nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like MERELY HUMAN 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 Georgia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
41%
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 MERELY HUMAN 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 MERELY HUMAN MINISTRIES?
- MERELY HUMAN MINISTRIES (Georgia) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $54,303 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($38,400). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does MERELY HUMAN MINISTRIES have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $54,303 in grants to MERELY HUMAN MINISTRIES, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MERELY HUMAN MINISTRIES?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $38,400 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MERELY HUMAN MINISTRIES find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Georgia. 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 2021–2025), 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