Colorado · Nonprofit
PastorServe Inc
PastorServe Inc (Colorado) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,902,749 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($3,220,085). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 96% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.1M
- Funders on record
- 26
- Grants received
- $4.9M
- Net assets
- $855k
What PastorServe Inc does
Mission
Our mission at PastorServe is to Strengthen the Church by providing both preventative and crisis care to pastors and ministry leaders. Since our founding over twenty-five years ago, we at PastorServe have used a number of expressions to define this ministry. "Every Pastor Needs a Pastor" has described the underlying purpose of our ministry since day one. "Healthy Pastors Lead Healthy Churches and Healthy Churches Change the World" is another frequently repeated axiom of our Ministry. We serve the pastoral community because we know that healthier pastors lead stronger churches that lead to a better community. To be deemed successful our programs must bless and prosper the city (Jeremiah 29:7), bringing joy to its inhabitants (Proverbs 11:10).
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The Organization seeks to accomplish its mission by providing the following services: Coaching, crisis support, consulting, leadership development, and soul care. The resulting impacts we want to achieve in our work with pastors and ministry leaders are as follows: A well nourished soul, relational connections, trusted team relationships, and resilient leadership.
$2,430,720 spentof which $132,052 as grants$447,705 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,430,720.
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 $379k to $690k (+82%).
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: 2020 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
85% of PastorServe Inc’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (90% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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
James A Dodd
CEO/Founder/Pres/Treas
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $255k → $819k.
16 of 26 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 96% 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 PastorServe Inc’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
PastorServe Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 66% of grant income and the top three 81%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
97% 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 PastorServe Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 92% · 2018 86% · 2019 51% · 2020 65% · 2021 58% · 2022 46% · 2023 79% — 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
36% of PastorServe Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
96% of PastorServe 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 $184k that is directly attributable, 94% of it comes from funders outside Colorado, across 6 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.7M arriving through sponsors registered in 13 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
PastorServe Inc has grown faster than half of the 1,211 religion nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,211 religion nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like PastorServe 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 Colorado
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
84%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 23 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PastorServe 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 PastorServe Inc?
- PastorServe Inc (Colorado) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,902,749 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($3,220,085). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 96% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does PastorServe Inc have?
- IRS filings report 26 organizations giving $4,902,749 in grants to PastorServe Inc, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PastorServe Inc?
- NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC is the largest funder on record, with $3,220,085 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PastorServe Inc 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.
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 26 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