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Practice Ministries Inc

Practice Ministries Inc (Texas) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $633,150 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($122,600). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 70% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$281k
Funders on record
18
Grants received
$633k
Net assets
$475k
16/18 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 31%
01What it does

What Practice Ministries Inc does

Mission

Practice Ministries is all about dads and kids doing Bible study together with other dads and their sons or daughters. It's about putting God's word into practice together while having a lot of fun doing it.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Practice Ministries continues to establish and continue Bible studies for dads and their children (primarily grades 3-9). These Bible studies are primarily in Texas, but each year there are downloads from all 50 United States and over 100 countries from our website.

    $217,003 spent
    81% of program spending
  2. International Support: The PM Translation Center helps pay for translations of PM lesson series, as well as print and distribution of PM materials to pastors who do not have the financial resources to provide discipleship materials for their churches and communities, primarily in areas where access to the internet is limited. PM currently has translations of our lesson series underway in 20 languages.PM also helps provide our lesson series, food, and transportation for PM conference participants in 10 African countries. These conferences help teach pastors and fathers how to disciple their children by doing Bible studies together.

    $52,450 spent
    19% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $269,453.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($174k) Expenses 100 ($167k) Net assets 100 ($213k)2018 Revenue 171 ($298k) Expenses 98 ($164k) Net assets 163 ($346k)2019 Revenue 157 ($274k) Expenses 143 ($239k) Net assets 179 ($381k)2020 Revenue 212 ($369k) Expenses 164 ($275k) Net assets 223 ($475k)2021 Revenue 160 ($278k) Expenses 176 ($294k) Net assets 213 ($452k)2022 Revenue 167 ($290k) Expenses 166 ($278k) Net assets 218 ($464k)2023 Revenue 179 ($311k) Expenses 173 ($289k) Net assets 229 ($486k)2024 Revenue 161 ($281k) Expenses 175 ($293k) Net assets 223 ($475k)
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Revenue (161)Expenses (175)Net assets (223)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $213k to $346k (+63%).

$213k
$346k
$382k
$484k
$458k
$467k
$489k
$478k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

94% of Practice Ministries Inc’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (100% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 15,288 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$7k
’17
$133k
’18
$35k
’19
$94k
’20
−$16k
’21
$12k
’22
$22k
’23
−$11k
’24
20
months of
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.

2018201920202021202220232024
Listed12151515181818
Joined·+4+0+0+4+0+0
No longer listed·100100
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $25k → $71k.

6 of 18 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 70% 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 Practice Ministries 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

Practice Ministries Inc has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 19% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left

71% 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 Practice Ministries Inc.

19%
largest funder
52%
top three
~8
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 43% · 2018 42% · 2019 46% · 2020 19% · 2021 20% · 2022 17% · 2023 26% — 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

69% of Practice Ministries Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 89% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

70% of Practice 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 $190k that is directly attributable, 94% of it comes from Texas funders.

VA
TX

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’22
’23
Texas out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $443k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Practice Ministries Inc holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 12,816 religion nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−4% · below the median
Months of reserve19.6mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)7% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,816 religion nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Organizations like Practice 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 Texas

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

92% of spending goes to programs.

Program 92%Management 6%Fundraising 2%

Governance

19
board members
0%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

98%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds Practice Ministries Inc?
Practice Ministries Inc (Texas) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $633,150 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($122,600). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 70% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does Practice Ministries Inc have?
IRS filings report 18 organizations giving $633,150 in grants to Practice Ministries Inc, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Practice Ministries Inc?
NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $122,600 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Practice Ministries Inc 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 18 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