Texas · Nonprofit
PRISON EVANGELISM INC
PRISON EVANGELISM INC (Texas) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $400,600 to it, the largest being THE JOSETTA FUND ($360,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $300k
- Funders on record
- 13
- Grants received
- $401k
- Net assets
- $90k
What Prison Evangelism Inc does
Mission
Prison evangelism, inc. Is organized with the purpose of printing and distributing the book, "how to be a child of god", and other books to its database of 2,100 jails and prisons in the united states where 2,000,000 inmates reside. The specific objective and purpose of this corporation is to offer christian messages and services to individuals within state and federal prisons, as well as local jails throughout the united states and abroad. The organization will also conduct seminars, offer one-on-one discipleship, publish and distribute materials, and offer mentorship services.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Printing and distribution of evangelistic christian books to jails and prisons throughout the united states.
$500,222 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $500,222.
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 $372k to $76k (−80%).
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.
100% of PRISON EVANGELISM INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 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
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $25k → $47k.
1 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 PRISON EVANGELISM 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
PRISON EVANGELISM INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 90% of grant income and the top three 94%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 67% · 2019 85% · 2020 54% · 2021 83% · 2022 90% · 2023 96% — 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
10% of PRISON EVANGELISM INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 38% 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
PRISON EVANGELISM INC draws 99% of its grant income from funders outside Texas, across 11 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
PRISON EVANGELISM INC has grown faster than half of the 12,816 religion nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,816 religion nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like PRISON EVANGELISM 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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
41% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PRISON EVANGELISM 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 PRISON EVANGELISM INC?
- PRISON EVANGELISM INC (Texas) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $400,600 to it, the largest being THE JOSETTA FUND ($360,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PRISON EVANGELISM INC have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $400,600 in grants to PRISON EVANGELISM INC, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PRISON EVANGELISM INC?
- THE JOSETTA FUND is the largest funder on record, with $360,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PRISON EVANGELISM 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 13 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