Louisiana · Nonprofit
MINISTRY TRAINING SOURCE
MINISTRY TRAINING SOURCE (Louisiana) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $205 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($205). 1 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 FY2024
- $76k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $205
- Net assets
- $3k
What Ministry Training Source does
Mission
To serve Catholic parishes, dioceses, seminaries, universities, and national organizations, at no cost or low cost in the areas of researching, consulting, and training those lay leaders who serve in pastoral ministry in the Catholic Church primarily although not exclusively with youth and young adults.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
This year MTS concluded our National Longitudinal Study of Youth and Young Adult MinistryLeaders on working on completing the 25-year study with a national survey of these sam ministry leaders.
$15,500 spentof which $12,475 as grants53% of program spendingRunning a leadership training program for youth ministry leaders reaching out to those in need including homeless and children with special needs.
$5,800 spentof which $5,000 as grants20% of program spendingTrain Vocational Leaders in the United States and in Ireland about Gen Z and Generation Alpha Youth.
$3,000 spent10% of program spendingServe as a consultant for the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops for their World Youth Day Cathechesis.
$1,500 spent5% of program spendingLead Researcher for the National Federation for Catholic Youth Ministry Accompaniment Project trying to understand how Catholic adults can better accompany young Catholics in faith.
$3,600 spent12% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $29,400.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2019 to 2020, from $104 to $23k (+21914%).
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.
34% of MINISTRY TRAINING SOURCE’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. 5 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Board chair
Vikki Shepp
Chairman of the Board
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $25 → $59.
1 of 1 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 MINISTRY TRAINING SOURCE’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 MINISTRY TRAINING SOURCE'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. $205 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 TRAINING SOURCE's revenue fell 40% between 2018 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,142 religion nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like MINISTRY TRAINING SOURCE
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 Louisiana
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds MINISTRY TRAINING SOURCE?
- MINISTRY TRAINING SOURCE (Louisiana) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $205 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($205). 1 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 MINISTRY TRAINING SOURCE have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $205 in grants to MINISTRY TRAINING SOURCE, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MINISTRY TRAINING SOURCE?
- AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $205 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MINISTRY TRAINING SOURCE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Louisiana. 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 2018–2024), 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