Kentucky · Nonprofit
Proem Support Ministries Inc
Proem Support Ministries Inc (Kentucky) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,067,166 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($10,869,407). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 99% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.2M
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $11M
- Net assets
- $2.5M
What Proem Support Ministries Inc does
Mission
Connecting people to the hope and freedom found in Jesus. Proem Support Ministries was founded in 2003, in Louisville, Kentucky to provide advice and direction on major projects and new programs to Proem Ministries in Poland, an organization that was formed to spread the Gospel throughout Poland and Eastern Europe. We provide logistics for volunteers, missionaries, and interns who are interested in serving in Poland. We provide financial support by accepting donations from individuals, churches and foundations. We provide accounting and record keeping services. We forward all donations to Proem Ministries in Poland and provide receipts to all donors. We are the primary contact point for churches and individuals wishing to become involved in the ministry of Proem in Poland. Proem Support Ministries creates communication platforms (website, print materials, e-newsletters) for our constituents.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2024 return the organization reported starting a significant new program.
The organization started a new one year residency program for young adults in September of 2024. See Part III, Line 4d.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).
Proem Support Ministries was Founded in 2003, In Louisville, Kentucky to provide advice and direction on Major Projects and new programs to Proem Ministries in Poland, an organization that was formed to spread the gospel throughout Poland and Eastern Europe. We provide logistics for volunteers, missionaries, and interns who are interested in serving in Poland. We provide financial support by accepting donations from individuals, churches, and foundations. We provide accounting and record keeping services for the missionaries there who are supported by US donors. We forward donations to Proem Ministries in Poland and provide receipts to all donors. We are the primary contact point for churches and individuals wishing to become involved in the ministry of Proem in Poland. Proem Support Ministries created communication platforms (website, print materials, E-newsletters) For our constituents.
$1,122,808 spentof which $788,063 as grants60% of program spendingProem's "Help Center," a permanent response to meet the ongoing needs of families and individuals in immediate crisis is a 47-room former hotel purchased in 2022 where ongoing care for displaced Ukrainians can continue. We continue to house, feed, and care for Ukrainian Refugees, operate our Christian Counseling Center, and provide ongoing trauma care, support groups and spiritual guidance to a multitude of people in need.
$465,000 spentof which $197,209 as grants25% of program spendingProem focuses on expanding the Kingdom of God - one life and one family at a time. Building relationships with non-believers and creating opportunities for people to hear the gospel join together all of Proem's areas of ministry and interdependence. This synergy has led to church plants in three cities in Poland.
$208,850 spentof which $208,850 as grants11% of program spendingThe Residency program started in September 2024 and continues today and into the future.The Proem Resident program is a one-year program, intended for young adults/aged 18+, which combines 4 elements: theology lectures, missional involvement, spiritual formation and social engagement. An important part of the program will be theology classes, lectures and biblical classes. We want to equip a new generation of young people with tools that will help them organize their way of thinking about God, man, the Church and mission. Lectures will be delivered by Proem staff and invited lecturers from Poland and abroad. It costs $15,000/year for Americanresidents and they raise all of their personal support to do the program. We have to raise $500/person for international residents and we have between 8-12 per year. With a total of $48,000/year for international residents. We receive funds from churches to support the program.
$87,498 spentof which $40,524 as grants5% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,884,156.
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 2021 to 2022, from $1.1M to $2.8M (+152%).
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 Proem Support Ministries Inc’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (97% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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 2 funders, grant income rose $549k → $851k.
4 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 99% 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 Proem Support 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
Proem Support Ministries Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 98% 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 Proem Support Ministries Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 95% · 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.
How long its funders stay
25% of Proem Support Ministries Inc's funders are still giving 1 year after their first grant; 22% 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
99% of Proem Support 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 $70k that is directly attributable, 86% of it comes from funders outside Kentucky, across 5 states.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $11M arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
Proem Support Ministries Inc holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 1,607 international nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,607 international nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like Proem Support 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 Kentucky
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Proem Support Ministries 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 Proem Support Ministries Inc?
- Proem Support Ministries Inc (Kentucky) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,067,166 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($10,869,407). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 99% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Proem Support Ministries Inc have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $11,067,166 in grants to Proem Support Ministries Inc, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Proem Support Ministries Inc?
- NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC is the largest funder on record, with $10,869,407 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Proem Support Ministries Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Kentucky. 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 9 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