Kansas · Nonprofit
MINISTRY LEADERSHIP INITIATIVE
MINISTRY LEADERSHIP INITIATIVE (Kansas) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $34,977 to it, the largest being YOUTH MINISTRY INSTITUTE INC ($30,866). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $45k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $35k
- Net assets
- $0
What Ministry Leadership Initiative does
Mission
Ministry Leadership Initiative partners with local churches and religious organizations to enrich the lives of young people with Christian witness by: developing authentic, intentional, and highly proficient leadership, sharing the love and grace of Jesus Christ with young people.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2024 return the organization reported a significant change in how it conducts a program.
Ministry Leadership Initiative entered into a strategic partnership with The Center for Youth Ministry Training in 2024, pausing some services and operations.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 3).
Ministry Leadership Initiative offers a two-year Instructional Cohort Program, comprised of groups of youth and children's ministry leaders serving in local churches. A core of expert practitioners, composed of pastors, counselors, educators, and experienced youth ministers, provides practical ministry training; at the same time, a robust team of theology professors and instructors teach theological education. Ministry Leadership Initiative entered into a strategic partnership with The Center for Youth Ministry Training in 2024 to provide contracted services.
$17,500 spent$17,500 earned by the program18% of program spendingMinistry Leadership Initiative entered into a strategic partnership with The Center for Youth Ministry Training in 2024, pausing some services and operations. Ministry Leadership Initiative made the following grants to The Center for Youth Ministry Training (20-4473859) in 2024: $44,000 disbursement of a reserve fund, entrusted to the care and oversight of the CYMT board of directors as documented in the MLI meeting minutes; $10,000 disbursement of funds to support staffing in the Midwest; $26,180 disbursement of funds designated for continued ministry operations in the Midwest.
$80,180 spentof which $80,180 as grants82% of program spendingMinistry Leadership Initiative entered into a strategic partnership with The Center for Youth Ministry Training in 2024, pausing some services and operations.
$0 spent0% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $97,680.
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 $56k to $0 (−100%).
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: 2020 9% · 2021 11% · 2022 1% · 2023 0% · 2024 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
60% of MINISTRY LEADERSHIP INITIATIVE’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. 1 of the last 6 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
Matt Vaughan
Executive Director
Board chair
Rick Walter
Chairperson
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $31k → $1k.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 MINISTRY LEADERSHIP INITIATIVE’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
MINISTRY LEADERSHIP INITIATIVE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 88% 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
89% 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 MINISTRY LEADERSHIP INITIATIVE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 97% · 2022 95% · 2023 96% — 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
MINISTRY LEADERSHIP INITIATIVE draws 89% of its grant income from funders outside Kansas, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $111 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
MINISTRY LEADERSHIP INITIATIVE's revenue fell 50% between 2019 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,142 religion nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like MINISTRY LEADERSHIP INITIATIVE
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 Kansas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
97% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
55%
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
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Questions and answers
- Who funds MINISTRY LEADERSHIP INITIATIVE?
- MINISTRY LEADERSHIP INITIATIVE (Kansas) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $34,977 to it, the largest being YOUTH MINISTRY INSTITUTE INC ($30,866). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MINISTRY LEADERSHIP INITIATIVE have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $34,977 in grants to MINISTRY LEADERSHIP INITIATIVE, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MINISTRY LEADERSHIP INITIATIVE?
- YOUTH MINISTRY INSTITUTE INC is the largest funder on record, with $30,866 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MINISTRY LEADERSHIP INITIATIVE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Kansas. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2019–2024), 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