Tennessee · Nonprofit
Prison Prevention Ministries Inc
Prison Prevention Ministries Inc (Tennessee) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $862,511 to it, the largest being CHATTANOOGA CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($623,506). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 73% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $349k
- Funders on record
- 13
- Grants received
- $863k
- Net assets
- $387k
What Prison Prevention Ministries Inc does
Mission
Preventing youth from going to prison and preventing inmates from returning to prison through a personal and growing relationship with jesus christ and his gospel.
As stated on its FY2020 Form 990.
Programs
InZone - InZone is designed to provide early intervention services for youth ages 10-14 who have been identified by a counselor school administrator teacher or parents or by the juvenile courts as being at-risk.
$25,782 spentJabbin for Jesus - Jabbin for Jesus is a community boxing and discipleship program open to both youth and adults. Each session begins with a devotional creating space for participants to center their hearts on faith before engaging in structured boxing training. The program emphasizes discipleship through sport using boxing as a tool to build character discipline resilience and a deeper relationship with Christ.
$18,629 spentChristmas Angel - PPM hosts a Christmas Angel party for children with one or both incarcerated parents. We host this party so the children can experience the joy of Christmas through celebration and gifts just for them. This annual event also provides tangible support for the guardians often single parents or grandparents who are caregiving for the children day in and day out while their parents are incarcerated. Christmas Angel allows the prisoners to know their child is being provided for during this time of separation and remind their son or daughter of the parents love despite their absence.
$6,315 spentPrevention Program - Our nonprofit conducts prevention presentations in local schools leveraging the powerful testimonies of reformed individuals who have successfully reintegrated into society after incarceration. These impactful sessions aim to educate students about the consequences of poor choices the importance of resilience and the potential for positive change inspiring them to make informed decisions and avoid criminal behavior. By providing real-life examples of transformation and redemption we strive to instill hope empathy and a sense of responsibility in the next generation fostering a more inclusive and supportive community for all.
$1,052 spent
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-PF.
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 2018 to 2019, from $126k to $111k (−12%).
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.
93% of Prison Prevention Ministries Inc’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (94% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 4 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.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $10k → $177k.
3 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 73% 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 Prevention 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
Prison Prevention Ministries Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 72% of grant income and the top three 86%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
73% 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 Prison Prevention Ministries Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 91% · 2019 53% · 2020 80% · 2021 72% · 2022 56% · 2023 95% — 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
60% of Prison Prevention Ministries Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 69% 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
73% of Prison Prevention 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 $229k that is directly attributable, 85% of it comes from Tennessee funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $634k 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
Prison Prevention Ministries Inc receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $863k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,538 crime & legal nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like Prison Prevention 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 Tennessee
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Prison Prevention Ministries Inc?
- Prison Prevention Ministries Inc (Tennessee) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $862,511 to it, the largest being CHATTANOOGA CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($623,506). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 73% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Prison Prevention Ministries Inc have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $862,511 in grants to Prison Prevention Ministries Inc, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Prison Prevention Ministries Inc?
- CHATTANOOGA CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $623,506 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Prison Prevention Ministries Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Tennessee. 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