South Dakota · Nonprofit
Simba Educational Ministries
Simba Educational Ministries (South Dakota) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $128,785 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($48,528). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 69% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $636k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $129k
- Net assets
- $196k
What Simba Educational Ministries does
Mission
Simba Educational Ministries mission is to further the Kingdom of God by equipping and empowering Kenyan children with the boldness of Jesus Christ, for the sake of the Gospel, through a Christ-centered education.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Kingdom Building Our top donations went to purchasing a 9-acre piece of land in Kenya. This land will be used to build our Biblical Vocational College. Title Deed was obtained and was registered under the Kenyan Simba Educational Ministries Non-governmental organization. Construction of our college is projected to start in 2026. Our Guest House was fully commercialized to now be Simba Royalty Resort. This upgrade included a new air bnb house, standardizing our kitchen and restaurant, landscaping and development of a parking area. Some repairs needed were to the roof and repainting from water damage. This will help us continue to host our mission teams and local meetings. It will also feed and allow local Kenyans to use this facility.
$232,911 spentof which $232,805 as grants$203,500 earned by the program38% of program spendingStewardship In this program we train, equip, and empower families and communities with sustainable economic development. Our self-revenue generating programs include tailoring, restaurant, hotel, dairy farm, tractor operation, vegetable gardens, motorbike rentals, clothes sales, poultry farming, fruit farms, and livestock farming. Through these businesses we empower families in starting their own small businesses in their communities. We have been able to empower over 430 families with business training and startup businesses. We use unrestricted donations to also support our Kenya operations.
$279,677 spentof which $243,814 as grants$205,741 earned by the program46% of program spendingSponsorships The sponsorship program is to support 350 children to schools ranging from grades K-12 and a few college students. We support over 70 different schools in Kenya. The sponsorship program provides school tuition, three meals a day, a bed to sleep in, and a social worker working with their family.
$42,332 spentof which $40,916 as grants$168,710 earned by the program7% of program spendingProgram Service Expenses 54,501, Grants and allocations 54,220, Revenue 45,871 Other Our Health and Wellness pillar provides an opportunity to American individuals interested in going over and serving in Kenya to help and encourage their medical providers, teachers and assist with VBS. Our Family Strengthening pillar works with families in our sponsorship program to make sure the child has a safe environment to come back home to.
$54,501 spentof which $54,220 as grants$45,871 earned by the program9% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $609,421.
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 2017 to 2018, from $46k to $136k (+193%).
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 3% · 2021 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of Simba Educational Ministries’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $10k → $53.
3 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 69% 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 Simba Educational 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
Simba Educational Ministries leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
100% 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 Simba Educational Ministries.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 73% · 2021 100% · 2022 80% · 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
69% of Simba Educational 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 $40k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside South Dakota, across 1 state.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $89k 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
Simba Educational Ministries has grown faster than half of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Simba Educational 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 South Dakota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
93% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
93%
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 Simba Educational 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 Simba Educational Ministries?
- Simba Educational Ministries (South Dakota) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $128,785 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($48,528). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 69% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Simba Educational Ministries have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $128,785 in grants to Simba Educational Ministries, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Simba Educational Ministries?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $48,528 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Simba Educational Ministries find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in South Dakota. 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 4 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