Texas · Nonprofit
NEW BRAUNFELS CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES
NEW BRAUNFELS CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES (Texas) receives grants from 34 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,793,061 to it, the largest being Methodist Healthcare Ministries of South Texas Inc ($1,520,000). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.8M
- Funders on record
- 34
- Grants received
- $4.8M
- Net assets
- $1.3M
What New Braunfels Christian Ministries does
Mission
Sharing the love of Christ by investing in people. Whether its walking alongside the next generation and their families at Kids Club or working together with adults at Volunteers in Medicine as they take charge of their health NBCM is all about showing Gods love. NBCM seeks to multiply possibilities in the lives of patients, students, families, volunteers and staff by faithfully nurturing purposeful growth in physical, mental, social and spiritual health.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Volunteers in Medicine staff and volunteers provide quality medical and dental care without charge to local uninsured patients. In 2025, 848 low-income adult patients received compassionate care at 5,850 medical and 1,084 dental appointments. The clinics diabetic education initiative equipped 77% of diabetic patients to maintain their A1c level below 9% in 2025, and preventive care initiatives provided breast cancer screenings for 70% of clinic female patients. Medical services are provided 5 days a week in New Braunfels and 1 day a week in Canyon Lake. Services include diagnosis and management of chronic diseases, laboratory analysis, treatment of acute illnesses, and preventative care. Dental services include basic dental care, dental hygiene, and restorative care. The clinic provides consistent access to health care services to adults who are ineligible for government-sponsored care and yet cannot afford to purchase insurance. In 2025, patients avoided $3.2 million in medical debt.
$838,778 spent$774 earned by the program59% of program spendingKids Club staff and volunteers create a fun, engaging environment where kids thrive through positive relationships with caring adults. Kids grow academically, expand life skills and develop Godly character. In 2025, 326 elementary students participated in after-school programming where they enjoyed help with reading and homework, Bible stories and healthy meals. Most students (83%) achieved high ratings or showed improvement in key social skills cheerful obedience, demonstrating kindness and focused attention. Every program day, caring adult volunteers read aloud with students to help kids strengthen skills and develop a love of reading. 56% of students report that they want to get a lot better at reading and 78% of students report that they love to read bible stories. Kids Club provided 10,691 meals for at-risk children during the year. School-recommended students from 14 area schools participated twice a week in programming provided across five sites.
$581,290 spent41% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,420,068.
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 2022 to 2023, from $1.0M to $1.4M (+34%).
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.
99% of NEW BRAUNFELS CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (51% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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
Jim Wesson
CEO
Board chair
Ray B Still
Chairman
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 7 funders to 14 funders, grant income rose $471k → $595k.
9 of 34 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 16% 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 NEW BRAUNFELS CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 34 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
NEW BRAUNFELS CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 32% of grant income and the top three 67%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
79% 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 NEW BRAUNFELS CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 36% · 2018 46% · 2019 53% · 2020 45% · 2021 29% · 2022 32% · 2023 42% — 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
63% of NEW BRAUNFELS CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES'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
100% of NEW BRAUNFELS CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $744k 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
NEW BRAUNFELS CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 5,002 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,002 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like NEW BRAUNFELS CHRISTIAN 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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
89%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds NEW BRAUNFELS CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES?
- NEW BRAUNFELS CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES (Texas) receives grants from 34 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,793,061 to it, the largest being Methodist Healthcare Ministries of South Texas Inc ($1,520,000). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NEW BRAUNFELS CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES have?
- IRS filings report 34 organizations giving $4,793,061 in grants to NEW BRAUNFELS CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES, 22 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NEW BRAUNFELS CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES?
- Methodist Healthcare Ministries of South Texas Inc is the largest funder on record, with $1,520,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NEW BRAUNFELS CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 34 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