Georgia · Nonprofit
SIDEWAYS SUNLIGHT MINISTRIES
SIDEWAYS SUNLIGHT MINISTRIES (Georgia) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $247,000 to it, the largest being Athens Area Community Foundation Inc ($247,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $189k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $247k
- Net assets
- $77k
What Sideways Sunlight Ministries does
Mission
To bring spiritual and emotional support to children living in at risk situations.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Founded in 2019, Sideways Sunlight Ministries (SSM) mission is to bring spiritual and emotional support to children living in at-risk situations in Athens, Georgia. SSM seeks fun and creative ways to make deep and meaningful connections to the children within the community while teaching the Gospel of Jesus through our (1) Weekly Church Gatherings (2) Mentor ship Program and (3) Community Support. Weekly church gatherings allows children from the Rocksprings community to gather at a local church every Thursday night where each child is served holistically. This approach to caring for the youth looks like tending and focusing on every facet of each child's bing such as the physical, spiritual, mental, and emotional needs. SSM focuses on providing exceptional Biblical lessons centered on unconditional love, health home-made meals, emotional and mental health tools, and healthy communication. SSM's Mentorship Program focuses on pairing each child with a safe and Jesus loving adult who will guide and support them through the joys and hardships of life. Each month the mentorship program provides monthly outings for the mentor pairings. We support members of the community with severe…
$121,279 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $121,279.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 $2k to $88k (+4048%).
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 SIDEWAYS SUNLIGHT MINISTRIES’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (83% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 3 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
Denika Nikeo
Chairman
As listed on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 SIDEWAYS SUNLIGHT 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.
Where its funders are
100% of SIDEWAYS SUNLIGHT 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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $247k 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
SIDEWAYS SUNLIGHT MINISTRIES has grown faster than three-quarters of the 5,688 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,688 youth development nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like SIDEWAYS SUNLIGHT 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 Georgia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
0%
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 SIDEWAYS SUNLIGHT 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 SIDEWAYS SUNLIGHT MINISTRIES?
- SIDEWAYS SUNLIGHT MINISTRIES (Georgia) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $247,000 to it, the largest being Athens Area Community Foundation Inc ($247,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does SIDEWAYS SUNLIGHT MINISTRIES have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $247,000 in grants to SIDEWAYS SUNLIGHT MINISTRIES, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SIDEWAYS SUNLIGHT MINISTRIES?
- Athens Area Community Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $247,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SIDEWAYS SUNLIGHT MINISTRIES find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Georgia. 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 2022–2024), and the filings of 1 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