Alabama · Nonprofit
ROOTED MINISTRIES INC
ROOTED MINISTRIES INC (Alabama) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,470,499 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($1,238,204). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 74% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.3M
- Funders on record
- 24
- Grants received
- $2.5M
- Net assets
- $504k
What Rooted Ministries Inc does
Mission
Rooted ministries exists to transform student ministry by fostering grace-driven and christ-centered leaders through rich theological and contextual engagement by offering blogs and podcasts through a website as well as a conference with speakers for youth, youth leaders and parents.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Rooted offers in person trainings including conferences and events for youth pastors. Rooted offers a unique, simple conference for youth ministers, volunteers and parents. It begins with the gospel as the starting point and considers all matters in ministry and youth culture from that axis.
$334,545 spent$60,211 earned by the program43% of program spendingRooted produces numerous communications including blogs and podcasts to equip leaders for ministry.
$215,288 spent28% of program spendingRooted provides online training developed to serve as a resource for youth ministry training with curriculum and training that is gospel-centered, bible-saturated, and useful for discipling students.
$232,328 spent$214,825 earned by the program30% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $782,161.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2022 to 2023, from $577k to $391k (−32%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2022 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
77% of ROOTED MINISTRIES INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 7 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.
Chief executive
Hannah Dow
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2024 and FY2025 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 11 funders, grant income rose $56k → $461k.
10 of 24 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 74% 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 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
ROOTED MINISTRIES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% of grant income and the top three 70%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
74% 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 INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 85% · 2019 71% · 2020 40% · 2021 45% · 2022 46% · 2023 56% — 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
62% of ROOTED MINISTRIES INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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
74% of ROOTED 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 $642k that is directly attributable, 57% of it comes from Alabama funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.8M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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 INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 1,064 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,064 youth development nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like ROOTED 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 Alabama
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
69% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
80%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ROOTED MINISTRIES INC?
- ROOTED MINISTRIES INC (Alabama) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,470,499 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($1,238,204). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 74% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does ROOTED MINISTRIES INC have?
- IRS filings report 24 organizations giving $2,470,499 in grants to ROOTED MINISTRIES INC, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ROOTED MINISTRIES INC?
- NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,238,204 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ROOTED MINISTRIES INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Alabama. 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 24 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