Georgia · Nonprofit
NUDGE MINISTRIES
NUDGE MINISTRIES (Georgia) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $60,707 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($60,000). 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 FY2025
- $191k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $61k
- Net assets
- $140k
What Nudge Ministries does
Mission
The primary purpose of Nudge Ministries is to help others to experience and demonstrate Christs love especially by serving others. The most significant activity is establishing churches in Ghana West Africa in villages where there are no churches.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
GLOBAL-CHURCH PLANTING IN GHANA. Nudge Ministries seeks to bring help and hope to the people of Ghana West Africa. We do this in many ways: 1. We go into remote villages and provide them with Sawyer water filters. Many African children under the age of four die due to contaminated drinking water. We show them the filter and since they would not understand microbiology we demonstrate how it works. We ask them What happens if a westerner drinks your water? They respond They will get very very sick. Then we say Watch this. The demonstrator pours their very discolored water through the filter into an empty water bottle. The demonstrator drinks the whole bottle in front of the villagers. Then the people line up to receive the water into their containers. We bring the Sawyer water filters to Ghana in our suitcases and attach them to large buckets purchases in Ghana. 2. We provide printed Bibles in the languages of the Ghanaians. Many older Ghanaians do not read so we provide solar audio Bibles in 12 regional languages. 3. We provide motorcycles to Ghanaian pastors to enable them to get to the people they serve. In each of the two regions where we minister we have one Toyota pickup truck…
$120,013 spentof which $21,510 as grants80% of program spendingREGIONAL-APPALACHIAN TRAIL MINISTRY. During ten days in March and April usually on Tuesdays and Thursdays Nudge teams ministered to between 250 and 45 Thru-hikers who were hiking the 2,197-mile Appalachian Trail through 14 states from Georgia to Maine. This hiking challenge will take 4.5 to 5 months of daily hikes of 12-14 miles up and down mountains and through the plains and woods. This Thru-hike is so difficult that by day 3 20% of those who signed up including many from other countries quit and go home. So for those who make it to day 4 or 5 where we are set up we start by congratulating them on making it this far. We provide the hikers with water which saves them hiking down to the river to get water and then filtering it hot beverages like coffee and hot chocolate for those bitterly cold days in the North Georgia mountains and soft drinks for April afternoons when the temperature may reach 50 to 60 degrees. Because they burn 5,000 to 6,000 calories a day we offer them the right kinds of high-calorie foods. Due to the temperatures moisture and wind we provide hypothermia-prevention information. Along with that we offer hand-knit hats designed to keep them from excess sweating…
$5,065 spent3% of program spendingLOCAL-MINISTRY IN CHURCHES. Part of our local ministry is to help churches. Because our founder Pastor Rich Tuttle was previously a childrens and youth pastor and a senior pastor and has been on over 60 mission trips he is well-qualified to assist local churches with their mission programs. We often do this by preparing a missions-related Vacation Bible School program for children. We are also involved in mens ministry. If men desire practical ways to live a God-honoring life Pastor Rich meets in person or by Zoom with individuals and groups of four or five. Monthly he attends a breakfast meeting of 20 to 30 men where he can encourage them by sharing his perspective based on the Holy Scriptures. Pastor Rich often also visits hospital patients.
$24,753 spent17% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $149,831.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 $106k to $135k (+28%).
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 NUDGE MINISTRIES’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $163 → $122.
2 of 2 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 NUDGE 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
NUDGE MINISTRIES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 99% 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 NUDGE MINISTRIES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
100% of NUDGE MINISTRIES'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. $61k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
NUDGE MINISTRIES is better cushioned than half of the 7,334 religion nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,334 religion nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like NUDGE 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 Georgia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
63%
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 NUDGE 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 NUDGE MINISTRIES?
- NUDGE MINISTRIES (Georgia) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $60,707 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($60,000). 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 NUDGE MINISTRIES have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $60,707 in grants to NUDGE MINISTRIES, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NUDGE MINISTRIES?
- NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC is the largest funder on record, with $60,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NUDGE MINISTRIES 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 2 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