Colorado · Nonprofit
NEXT GEN MINISTRIES
NEXT GEN MINISTRIES (Colorado) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $548,718 to it, the largest being Thrivent Financial for Lutherans ($456,710). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $126k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $549k
- Net assets
- $170k
What Next Gen Ministries does
Mission
As we seek to faithfully make disciples of christ, Next Gen Ministries specifically desires to be a resource devoted to developing youth, young adults and families with the gospel and walking with them in their faith. We develop discipleship and character materials, training, studies, events, projects, leagues, camps and other ways that reach the individual evangelistically and encourage them in their journey of life. We look to engage through the different platforms of education, sport, and community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
-continued development of heart values for student athletes -team and individual character and leadership development and studies with student athletes and coaches -develop multiple youth basketball camps/teams/leagues/tournaments (k-12th grade) -developed multiple youth baseball teams -developing relationships with fca leadership
$95,216 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $95,216.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $52k to $91k (+75%).
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.
46% of NEXT GEN MINISTRIES’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (18% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income fell $360k → $41k.
3 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 17% 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 NEXT GEN 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
NEXT GEN MINISTRIES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 83% 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 NEXT GEN MINISTRIES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 99% · 2022 54% · 2023 50% — 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
NEXT GEN MINISTRIES draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Colorado, across 1 state in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $92k 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
NEXT GEN MINISTRIES runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 11,010 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,010 recreation & sports nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like NEXT GEN 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 Colorado
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
92%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for NEXT GEN 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 NEXT GEN MINISTRIES?
- NEXT GEN MINISTRIES (Colorado) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $548,718 to it, the largest being Thrivent Financial for Lutherans ($456,710). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NEXT GEN MINISTRIES have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $548,718 in grants to NEXT GEN MINISTRIES, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NEXT GEN MINISTRIES?
- Thrivent Financial for Lutherans is the largest funder on record, with $456,710 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NEXT GEN MINISTRIES find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Colorado. 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 4 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