Ohio · Nonprofit
SERVING OUR NEIGHBORS MINISTRIES INC
SERVING OUR NEIGHBORS MINISTRIES INC (Ohio) receives grants from 37 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,264,416 to it, the largest being COLUMBUS FOUNDATION ($896,584). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 58% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.7M
- Funders on record
- 37
- Grants received
- $2.3M
- Net assets
- $705k
What Serving Our Neighbors Ministries Inc does
Mission
Community service mission. The corporation will exist to serve our neighbors in poverty or those in need with christian compassion. It will provide direct services, referral processes, and synergy with other organizations to feed, educate and provide fellowship. The purpose of this assistance is to help families take steps toward spiritual, economic, and social stabilization with the goal of the families attaining self- sufficiency in the community. The corporation will provide education to children, families, adults, and the greater community to learn skills, english or understand poverty. The corporation will also provide access to church programming and prayer to fulfill the spiritual needs of our neighbors. This work is done for social justice purposes by ecumenical volunteers which shows the grace and love of god in our community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The festa 3-generation family esl program takes place every monday through thursday evening from september-april and welcomes immigrants and refugees of all ages seeking to learn english. Parents can bring their children to festa friends club, which provides programming, academic support, and dinner for children in grades k-8, or to our early childhood classrooms which provide infant care and preschool programming for toddlers. High school students are welcome to join our teen internship program where they assist festa staff in leading activities, providing dinner and academic support. This year, our 3-generation family esl program served families from 59 different countries and served people from infants to grandparents, and everyone in between we welcomed families from 58 different zip codes across central ohio, as well as a virtual classroom for students without local transportation, or in other parts of the state, to join our program and the welcoming community that exists at festa. During the 2024-2025 school year, we welcomed 690 adults (136 online and 554 in person) with 476 children to total: 1166 people served by this program. Half of our mission is to mobilize the…
$570,483 spent$12,799 earned by the program59% of program spendingFree summer lunch camp now in its 19th year, the festa's free summer lunch camp welcomes children facing poverty from culturally diverse backgrounds to join us daily for friendship, recreation, reading support, special activities, and a nutritious, free lunch. Children who attend will participate in age-appropriate programming and eat a nutritious meal daily the summer lunch camp helps children who receive free or reduced lunch at school while school is not in session by serving free breakfast and lunch while facilitating camp activities including entrepreneurial learning. This program combats suburban poverty by providing children with a safe space to grow, learn, and be part of a supportive and positive community. During summer 2025, we welcomed 737 children and served a total of 8132 meals with 191 volunteers serving 3146 hours. In addition to the expense reported above, there was 84,418 in donated rent and 876 in professional services which were reported in the financial statements as contributions in program expense. For form 990, however, the irs requires that contributed services and use of facilities be excluded from both revenue and expense.
$292,363 spent30% of program spendingConnecting families in need to community resources when families who attend our programs have a vital need for food, clothing, shelter or emergency bill payment we vet the need and make the connection to local churches, suburban neighbors, partner organizations or our benevolent fund with the goal of stabilizing families. We serve as a vital link connecting families with needs to a host of community services. During fy25 (september 2024 through august 2025), our staff worked on and successfully closed 63 connecting to resources cases.
$33,403 spent3% of program spendingMarch 2023 festa started a social enterprise festa business esl where businesses can hire festa to teach english to associates and spanish to managers on-site before working hours, making it free and convenient for them. Being bilingual is a top business skill in the united states. Festa business esl allows companies to invest in their employees, offering them the opportunity to become bilingual. This will close the communication gap among coworkers, strengthening the team and help attract new employees while retaining quality talent. In 2025, we continued with one company and offered proposals to 1 global company. Festa offers training, coaching, and consulting, to help other cities run a festa program to serve their neighbors. Since 2008 to help churches, civic associations, local governments, school districts and other group of caring people provide crucial support to thousands of children and families facing poverty in their suburban neighborhoods. Topics include running our flagship programs of 3-generation family english and free summer lunch camp as well as poverty, cultural diversity, and volunteerism. In fy25, festa offered lewis center ohio a training proposal to start…
$66,386 spent$39,088 earned by the program7% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $962,635.
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 2022 to 2023, from $505k to $968k (+92%).
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: 2020 6% · 2021 13% · 2022 3% · 2023 8% · 2024 8% · 2025 16%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of SERVING OUR NEIGHBORS MINISTRIES INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 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.
Board chair
Guru Vasudeva
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $96k → $337k.
13 of 37 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 58% 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 SERVING OUR NEIGHBORS MINISTRIES INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 37 funders by total. 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
SERVING OUR NEIGHBORS MINISTRIES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 60%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
84% 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 SERVING OUR NEIGHBORS MINISTRIES INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 33% · 2018 31% · 2019 45% · 2020 41% · 2021 40% · 2022 44% · 2023 67% — 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.
How long its funders stay
47% of SERVING OUR NEIGHBORS MINISTRIES INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 51% 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
58% of SERVING OUR NEIGHBORS 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 $946k that is directly attributable, 80% of it comes from Ohio funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.3M 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
SERVING OUR NEIGHBORS MINISTRIES INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 7,349 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,349 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like SERVING OUR NEIGHBORS 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 Ohio
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
70% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
91%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds SERVING OUR NEIGHBORS MINISTRIES INC?
- SERVING OUR NEIGHBORS MINISTRIES INC (Ohio) receives grants from 37 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,264,416 to it, the largest being COLUMBUS FOUNDATION ($896,584). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 58% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does SERVING OUR NEIGHBORS MINISTRIES INC have?
- IRS filings report 37 organizations giving $2,264,416 in grants to SERVING OUR NEIGHBORS MINISTRIES INC, 19 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SERVING OUR NEIGHBORS MINISTRIES INC?
- COLUMBUS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $896,584 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SERVING OUR NEIGHBORS MINISTRIES INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. 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 37 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