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Reelfoot Rural Ministry Inc

Reelfoot Rural Ministry Inc (Tennessee) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $407,203 to it, the largest being Smile 180 Foundation ($246,725). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$436k
Funders on record
9
Grants received
$407k
Net assets
$1.5M
6/9 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 10%
01What it does

What Reelfoot Rural Ministry Inc does

Mission

To serve spiritual and economic needs

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Provide spiritual and economic assistance to disadvantaged elderly residents of west tennessee

    $611,713 spent$109,585 earned by the program
    97% of program spending
  2. Provide spiritual and economic assistance to disadvantaged elderly residents of west tennessee

    $18,169 spent
    3% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $629,882.

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 ($883k) Expenses 100 ($920k) Net assets 100 ($822k)2018 Revenue 100 ($888k) Expenses 104 ($961k) Net assets 91 ($748k)2019 Revenue 104 ($917k) Expenses 111 ($1.0M) Net assets 79 ($646k)2020 Revenue 196 ($1.7M) Expenses 111 ($1.0M) Net assets 164 ($1.4M)2021 Revenue 108 ($952k) Expenses 102 ($936k) Net assets 180 ($1.5M)2022 Revenue 109 ($963k) Expenses 102 ($937k) Net assets 183 ($1.5M)2023 Revenue 114 ($1.0M) Expenses 88 ($811k) Net assets 206 ($1.7M)2024 Revenue 103 ($913k) Expenses 82 ($754k) Net assets 224 ($1.8M)2025 Revenue 49 ($436k) Expenses 86 ($791k) Net assets 180 ($1.5M)
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Revenue (49)Expenses (86)Net assets (180)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 2019 to 2020, from $671k to $1.5M (+117%).

$866k
$783k
$671k
$1.5M
$1.5M
$1.5M
$1.7M
$1.9M
$1.5M
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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
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 2% · 2018 2% · 2019 1% · 2020 0% · 2021 14% · 2022 7% · 2023 1% · 2024 2% · 2025 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

138% of Reelfoot Rural Ministry Inc’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (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. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$36k
’17
−$74k
’18
−$103k
’19
$705k
’20
$15k
’21
$26k
’22
$194k
’23
$159k
’24
−$355k
’25
8.6
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.

Chief executive

Rev Robert Craig

Executive Director

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Joined·+1+0+1+0+4+5+0+1
No longer listed·01005401
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $12k → $28k.

5 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 12% 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 Reelfoot Rural Ministry 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

Reelfoot Rural Ministry Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 61% of grant income and the top three 92%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

72% 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 Reelfoot Rural Ministry Inc.

61%
largest funder
92%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 47% · 2019 61% · 2020 60% · 2021 55% · 2022 79% · 2023 57% — 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

50% of Reelfoot Rural Ministry Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% give in more than one year at all.

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

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

100% of Reelfoot Rural Ministry Inc's grant income comes from Tennessee funders.

WI
TN

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

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Tennessee out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $48k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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

Reelfoot Rural Ministry Inc is better cushioned than half of the 7,334 religion nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−82% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve8.6mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−8% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,334 religion nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like Reelfoot Rural Ministry 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.

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

80% of spending goes to programs.

Program 80%Management 20%Fundraising 0%

Governance

14
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

99%

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds Reelfoot Rural Ministry Inc?
Reelfoot Rural Ministry Inc (Tennessee) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $407,203 to it, the largest being Smile 180 Foundation ($246,725). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Reelfoot Rural Ministry Inc have?
IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $407,203 in grants to Reelfoot Rural Ministry Inc, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Reelfoot Rural Ministry Inc?
Smile 180 Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $246,725 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Reelfoot Rural Ministry 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), 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