Georgia · Nonprofit
Must Ministries Inc
Must Ministries Inc (Georgia) receives grants from 185 organizations whose IRS filings report $16,403,341 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,693,746). 121 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 50% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $23M
- Funders on record
- 185
- Grants received
- $16M
- Net assets
- $32M
What Must Ministries Inc does
Mission
To serve our neighbors in need and to transform lives and communities in response to Christ's call.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Housing Programs: MUST housing programs support clients in five core areas, addressing homelessness and those at risk of becoming homeless. These areas include housing, clinic/health, food, workforce development and clothing: (1) the MUST Hope House emergency shelter provides shelter for men, women and families with children who are experiencing homelessness; (2) MUST's Permanent Supportive Housing program provides longer-term, stable housing for those who are disabled and chronically homeless, including veterans; (3) MUST's Tenant Based Rental Assistance program provides temporary housing assistance to families who are experiencing homelessness; and (4) MUST's Rapid Re-Housing Program provides short-term rental assistance and services.MUST's Hope House emergency shelter is a facility that provides temporary housing for the homeless. It does not require occupants to sign leases or occupancy agreements. Hope House plays a critical role in ending homelessness and offers immediate and low-barrier access to anyone facing a housing crisis. MUST provided shelter to 1,547 people with 68,806 bed nights and served an additional 1167 homeless outreach clients with food and supportive…
$11,606,920 spentof which $5,658,215 as grants$236,418 earned by the program53% of program spendingClient Services: MUST's Client Services locations provide food, housing assistance, workforce development, entrepreneurial training, clothing, hygiene products, diapers, linens, case management, adult healthcare, government assistance applications, adult insurance access, computer training and other financial assistance services to individuals and families with little to no income. With the help of thousands of volunteers, 952,608 pounds of groceries were distributed to 25,414 individuals and 133,627 clothing items were given (free of charge) to 9,401 individuals. MUST helped 1,901 individuals through training opportunities, including job readiness and industry-specific training. As a result of our workforce development program, 801 individuals obtained employment resulting in more than $28.5 million in personal income annually.Seasonal Programs and Community Outreach: MUST's Community Outreach programs provide supplemental food and holiday assistance for individuals and families in need. MUST's Summer Lunch program delivers breakfast and lunch items each weekday during summer break to at-risk, school-aged children who receive free or reduced lunches during the school year, as…
$3,439,785 spentof which $2,150,656 as grants16% of program spendingNeighborhood Pantry: The MUST Neighborhood Pantry is a collaborative effort with public schools and churches to serve children and families in crisis. The greatest challenge our client families have in receiving assistance from existing food pantries is transportation. Many low-income families do not have vehicles, nor practical access to public transportation. As many as 65% of our client families have trouble making it to our existing school pantries to pick up their groceries.The program operates in 20 pantries (19 schools and 1 church) operating in Cobb and Cherokee counties. Each school pantry serves a cluster of nearby schools, resulting in service to students in 100 schools. Once a month, including summer months, these families come to their school pantry to select food, toiletries, meats and fresh produce for their family. The students are identified by a liaison who is either a school social worker, a guidance counselor or an academic coach. They are the students who are most at risk of hunger: homeless children and families, households with children that have been abandoned by their parents, families with life-altering illnesses, families with recent unemployment and the…
$2,435,545 spentof which $1,939,835 as grants11% of program spendingClinic: Through a third-party provider, MUST Ministries facilitates both primary and behavioral health services that are 'free of charge' to clients in need of healthcare. MUST provides behavioral health service, including support groups and counseling in the Hope House emergency shelter accessible to all shelter clients. MUST also provides behavioral health services to Permanent Supportive Housing clients in Cobb and Cherokee counties. In addition, MUST provides primary care services through a mobile medical unit twice per month in Marietta and once per month in Smyrna; these services are available to anyone in need.MarketPlace: MUST MarketPlace opened in 2014 as an additional way to serve our neighbors in need. On November 1, 2023, the MUST MarketPlace moved to a new location at 4651 Woodstock Road in Roswell, Ga. This new 7,500 square foot retail location is twice the size of the previous site. MUST MarketPlace offers a full retail experience for the general public with many departments anchored by the clothing other departments include designer jewelry, home decorations, seasonal goods, and furniture. There is also a donation drop off" service at this location. All profits and…
$4,223,754 spentof which $3,725,432 as grants19% of program spendingMUST's Community Outreach programs provide supplemental food and holiday assistance for individuals and families in need. MUST's Summer Lunch program delivers breakfast and lunch items each weekday during summer break to at-risk, school-aged children who receive free or reduced lunches during the school year, as well as their younger siblings. Partnering with community churches and organizations, 505,700 meals were delivered to 7,713 children across 8 counties. MUST's Toy Shop provided Christmas gifts (including blankets, hats, scarves, gloves, pajamas, school supplies and toys) to 6,036 children from three counties and MUST's holiday program provided 460 families with holiday meals complete with a gift card for a ham or turkey and all the accompanying holiday food items needed for a traditional celebration. MUST also expanded services in its Senior Smiles program beyond food to hygiene products and other senior-centric personal care items; this program served 277 seniors monthly.
The MUST Mobile program delivers healthy food to people in low-income neighborhoods who are challenged by difficulties with poverty, unemployment and lack of transportation. Serving clients in a more mobile way than our Neighborhood Pantry, our MUST Mobile program delivers food to 13 locations across 4 metropolitan counties monthly, meeting the needs of our community right where they live and eliminating transportation barriers. This program delivers fresh, healthy food in low-income neighborhoods and food deserts. Locations include schools, the VA Clinic, churches, apartment complexes, extended stays, etc. - anywhere that people need help.The greatest challenge client families have in receiving assistance from existing food pantries is transportation; many low-income families do not have vehicles, nor practical access to public transportation. As many as 65% of our client families have trouble making it to our existing 20 Neighborhood Pantry locations to pick up their groceries.The MUST Mobile program improves the health and overall quality of life for families who are struggling to feed their families. When food is brought to an area closer to low-income neighborhoods, it…
Through a third-party provider, MUST Ministries facilitates both primary and behavioral health services that are 'free of charge' to clients in need of healthcare. MUST provides behavioral health service, including support groups and counseling in the Hope House emergency shelter accessible to all shelter clients. MUST also provides behavioral health services to Permanent Supportive Housing clients in Cobb and Cherokee counties. In addition, MUST provides primary care services through a mobile medical unit twice per month in Marietta and once per month in Smyrna; these services are available to anyone in need.
The 7 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $21,706,004.
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 2020 to 2021, from $23M to $33M (+40%).
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 14% · 2018 18% · 2019 13% · 2020 16% · 2021 20% · 2022 47% · 2023 41% · 2024 22% · 2025 17%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
95% of Must Ministries Inc’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (21% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 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
Dwight Ike Reighard
President/CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2020 and FY2021 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 28 funders to 75 funders, grant income rose $462k → $2.1M.
29 of 185 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 50% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $4.6M from 11 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Joseph B Whitehead Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money Must Ministries Inc raised.
From the IRS filings of Must Ministries Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 185 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
Must Ministries Inc has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 10% of grant income, and it takes 7 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 7 funders to its left
65% 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 Must Ministries Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 20% · 2018 21% · 2019 17% · 2020 21% · 2021 19% · 2022 11% · 2023 10% — 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.
How long its funders stay
47% of Must Ministries Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% 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
50% of Must Ministries Inc'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 $8.2M that is directly attributable, 70% of it comes from Georgia funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $8.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 18 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
Must Ministries Inc is better cushioned than half of the 2,396 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,396 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding Must Ministries Inc receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $7.6M on record.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$7.6M
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like Must Ministries Inc
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.
Where the money goes
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
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 Must Ministries Inc: 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 Must Ministries Inc?
- Must Ministries Inc (Georgia) receives grants from 185 organizations whose IRS filings report $16,403,341 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,693,746). 121 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 50% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Must Ministries Inc have?
- IRS filings report 185 organizations giving $16,403,341 in grants to Must Ministries Inc, 121 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Must Ministries Inc?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $1,693,746 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Must Ministries Inc 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 185 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