Virginia · Nonprofit
Search for Me Ministries Inc
Search for Me Ministries Inc (Virginia) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $217 to it, the largest being NEW HORIZONS FOUNDATION INC ($150). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $50k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $217
- Net assets
- $78k
What Search for Me Ministries Inc does
Mission
Christ-centered teaching and instruction through speaking,teaching, coaching, and the development of written and video resources, networking pastors and churches for prayer.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Production and distribution of teaching resources to help grow people to spiritual maturity. This mostly involves the writing and printing of books, with a special emphasis on small group study use Distributed 698 books -242 of which were distributed at no charge.
$19,073 spent34% of program spendingDiscipleship of men and women to help them grow to spiritual maturity through leadership training, small group leadership, online discussions, and personal interaction.
$14,472 spentof which $1,982 as grants26% of program spendingPrayer and outreach involves an other-centered, community focused approach, mainly by networking pastors and laypeople to pray, with an encouragement for meaningful service in their surrounding areas.
$8,355 spent15% of program spendingProgram Service Expenses 13,446, Grants and allocations 0, Revenue 0 Other programs include mainly speaking at churches, along with ministry to the general public through online resources such as blog posts and video teaching.
$13,446 spent24% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $55,346.
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.
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 $90k to $144k (+60%).
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.
85% of Search for Me Ministries Inc’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue 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. 4 of the last 6 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 1 funder, grant income fell $50 → $28.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 31% 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 Search for Me 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
Search for Me Ministries Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 69% 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
31% 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 Search for Me Ministries Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 81% · 2022 100% · 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.
Where its funders are
Search for Me Ministries Inc draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Virginia, across 1 state in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $67 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
Search for Me Ministries Inc is better cushioned than half of the 7,232 religion nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,232 religion nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like Search for Me 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 Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
76%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Search for Me 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 Search for Me Ministries Inc?
- Search for Me Ministries Inc (Virginia) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $217 to it, the largest being NEW HORIZONS FOUNDATION INC ($150). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Search for Me Ministries Inc have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $217 in grants to Search for Me Ministries Inc, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Search for Me Ministries Inc?
- NEW HORIZONS FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $150 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Search for Me Ministries Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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 2 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