California · Nonprofit
Rooted Ministries
Rooted Ministries (California) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $444,095 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($300,840). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 95% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $491k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $444k
- Net assets
- $155k
What Rooted Ministries does
Mission
Rooted Ministries endeavors to train, equip, and empower people to a greater, Christ-centered destiny in Gulu, Uganda, and Orange County, California. Rooted Ministries Nursery and Primary School, and Rooted Ministries Secondary Academy minister to children in Gulu, Uganda. As of December 2024, their enrollment was approximately 525 children. The schools provide a safe and nurturing academic environment where a child will sense acceptance, love, care, and belonging through Christ. Rooted Ministries is equipping and empowering future leaders through mentoring, monitoring, quality education and teaching biblical principles. The on-site Rooted Ministries Chapel in Gulu serves the school and the surrounding Kasubi community as a gathering place for daily morning devotions and weekly chapel services. The daily devotions are part of the Christian education provided to those attending the schools. Rooted Ministries True Love Girls Hostel provides a place of safety, security, love and care in G
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Rooted Ministries endeavors to train, equip, and empower people to a greater, Christ-centered destiny in Gulu, Uganda, and Orange County, California. Rooted Ministries Nursery and Primary School, and Rooted Ministries Secondary Academy minister to children in Gulu, Uganda. As of December 2024, their enrollment was approximately 525 children. The schools provide a safe and nurturing academic environment where a child will sense acceptance, love, care, and belonging through Christ. Rooted Ministries is equipping and empowering future leaders through mentoring, monitoring, quality education and teaching biblical principles. The on-site Rooted Ministries Chapel in Gulu serves the school and the surrounding Kasubi community as a gathering place for daily morning devotions and weekly chapel services. The daily devotions are part of the Christian education provided to those attending the schools. Rooted Ministries True Love Girls Hostel provides a place of safety, security, love and care in Gulu for 56 of the most at-risk young women attending the school. Rooted Ministries has established a Boys Hostel in Gulu to minister to 35 of the at-risk boys attending the schools.In Orange County,…
$603,676 spentof which $437,697 as grants$490,700 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $603,676.
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 2020 to 2021, from $264k to $438k (+66%).
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 Rooted Ministries’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. 5 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 held at 3 funders, grant income rose $29k → $37k.
3 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 95% 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 Rooted Ministries’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
Rooted Ministries leans on a few funders — its largest provides 68% of grant income and the top three 96%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
95% 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 Rooted Ministries.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 53% · 2018 100% · 2019 88% · 2020 84% · 2021 86% · 2022 95% · 2023 60% — growing more concentrated.
“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.
Where its funders are
95% of Rooted Ministries'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 $20k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $424k 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
Rooted Ministries's revenue grew 25% between 2017 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,816 religion nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like Rooted Ministries
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
98% 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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Rooted Ministries: 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 Rooted Ministries?
- Rooted Ministries (California) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $444,095 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($300,840). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 95% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Rooted Ministries have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $444,095 in grants to Rooted Ministries, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Rooted Ministries?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $300,840 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Rooted Ministries find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 5 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