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RIGHTEOUS RIDES

RIGHTEOUS RIDES (Missouri) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $846,409 to it, the largest being BAPTIST COMMUNITY MINISTRIES ($335,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 50% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$1.8M
Funders on record
12
Grants received
$846k
Net assets
$1.4M
7/12 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 13%
01What it does

What Righteous Rides does

Mission

The mission of Righteous Rides is to further the spread of the Gospel message of Jesus Christ by assisting evangelistic organizations in meeting their transportation needs.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Our primary ministry is providing evangelical missionaries reliable automobiles for use during their trips home from the field.

    $1,376,922 spent$1,050,863 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,376,922.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($1.2M) Expenses 100 ($1.3M) Net assets 100 ($1.2M)2021 Revenue 124 ($1.5M) Expenses 101 ($1.3M) Net assets 117 ($1.4M)2022 Revenue 111 ($1.4M) Expenses 105 ($1.4M) Net assets 117 ($1.4M)2023 Revenue 114 ($1.4M) Expenses 119 ($1.6M) Net assets 103 ($1.2M)2024 Revenue 126 ($1.6M) Expenses 114 ($1.5M) Net assets 108 ($1.3M)2025 Revenue 149 ($1.8M) Expenses 128 ($1.7M) Net assets 121 ($1.4M)
202020212022202320242025
Revenue (149)Expenses (128)Net assets (121)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 2022 to 2023, from $2.1M to $1.9M (−9%).

$1.8M
$2.0M
$2.1M
$1.9M
$1.9M
$2.1M
202020212022202320242025
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.

2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

43% of RIGHTEOUS RIDES’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (90% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 2,744 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

−$81k
’20
$199k
’21
−$2k
’22
−$161k
’23
$53k
’24
$157k
’25
3.3
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.

Board chair

Tom Levanos

Chairman

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

202020212022202320242025
Listed91211111112
Joined·+3+0+0+0+2
No longer listed·01001
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $4k → $138k.

6 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 50% 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 RIGHTEOUS RIDES’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

RIGHTEOUS RIDES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 85%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

53% 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 RIGHTEOUS RIDES.

40%
largest funder
85%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 71% · 2018 54% · 2019 59% · 2020 46% · 2021 41% · 2022 44% · 2023 54% — 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

40% of RIGHTEOUS RIDES's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% give in more than one year at all.

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

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

50% of RIGHTEOUS RIDES'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 $420k that is directly attributable, 99% of it comes from funders outside Missouri, across 4 states.

MN
MO
TN
LA

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

’17
’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Missouri out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $427k 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

RIGHTEOUS RIDES runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 1,325 religion nonprofits its size.

Operating margin8% · above the median
Months of reserve3.3mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)8% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,325 religion nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Organizations like RIGHTEOUS RIDES

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 Missouri

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

81% of spending goes to programs.

Program 81%Management 10%Fundraising 8%

Governance

11
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

73%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MO

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Questions and answers

Who funds RIGHTEOUS RIDES?
RIGHTEOUS RIDES (Missouri) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $846,409 to it, the largest being BAPTIST COMMUNITY MINISTRIES ($335,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 50% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does RIGHTEOUS RIDES have?
IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $846,409 in grants to RIGHTEOUS RIDES, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of RIGHTEOUS RIDES?
BAPTIST COMMUNITY MINISTRIES is the largest funder on record, with $335,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like RIGHTEOUS RIDES find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Missouri. 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 12 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing