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SONRAYS MINISTRIES INC

SONRAYS MINISTRIES INC (New York) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $234,249 to it, the largest being YOUNG PEOPLE'S CHURCH OF THE AIR INC ($115,500). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$293k
Funders on record
8
Grants received
$234k
Net assets
$650k
3/8 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 13%
01What it does

What Sonrays Ministries Inc does

Mission

The organization is a volunteer organization which promotes the betterment of mankind through the establishment of a center for voluntary social service and religious teaching.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. During this fiscal year, the organization pursued its primary mission vision to be a volunteer organization of people concerned with the welfare of others needs by providing laity ministry services for those in need, with the emphasis on women in crisis pregnancies and also by teaching and studying the gospel of jesus christ, and promoting christs message through various social and religious study, and missionary and benevolent works through all types of media.

    $225,908 spent$200,522 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $225,908.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($218k) Expenses 100 ($203k) Net assets 100 ($171k)2018 Revenue 103 ($224k) Expenses 103 ($208k) Net assets 110 ($187k)2019 Revenue 96 ($209k) Expenses 94 ($191k) Net assets 121 ($206k)2020 Revenue 117 ($255k) Expenses 100 ($203k) Net assets 151 ($259k)2021 Revenue 159 ($346k) Expenses 97 ($197k) Net assets 238 ($408k)2022 Revenue 161 ($350k) Expenses 106 ($214k) Net assets 318 ($544k)2023 Revenue 220 ($478k) Expenses 136 ($277k) Net assets 436 ($745k)2024 Revenue 138 ($300k) Expenses 168 ($340k) Net assets 413 ($705k)2025 Revenue 134 ($293k) Expenses 172 ($348k) Net assets 380 ($650k)
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Revenue (134)Expenses (172)Net assets (380)Peer revenue range

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 $551k to $751k (+36%).

$175k
$190k
$212k
$291k
$416k
$551k
$751k
$711k
$655k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

64% of SONRAYS MINISTRIES INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 23,870 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$15k
’17
$16k
’18
$19k
’19
$53k
’20
$149k
’21
$136k
’22
$202k
’23
−$40k
’24
−$56k
’25
18
months of
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

Cheri Henry

Presidentboard chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Joined·+0+0+0+0+3+0+3+1
No longer listed·01003041
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $10k → $64k.

3 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 8% 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 SONRAYS 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

SONRAYS MINISTRIES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 49% of grant income and the top three 88%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

49%
largest funder
88%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 50% · 2018 100% · 2019 67% · 2020 77% · 2021 79% · 2022 38% · 2023 37% — 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

75% of SONRAYS MINISTRIES INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 38% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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

SONRAYS MINISTRIES INC draws 62% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 4 states in all.

NY
IN
PA
TN

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’22
’23
New York out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $19k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

SONRAYS MINISTRIES INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 13,062 human services nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−19% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve18.4mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)4% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,062 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

63% of spending goes to programs.

Program 63%Management 37%Fundraising 0%

Governance

3
board members
33%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

87%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

NY

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Questions and answers

Who funds SONRAYS MINISTRIES INC?
SONRAYS MINISTRIES INC (New York) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $234,249 to it, the largest being YOUNG PEOPLE'S CHURCH OF THE AIR INC ($115,500). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does SONRAYS MINISTRIES INC have?
IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $234,249 in grants to SONRAYS MINISTRIES INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of SONRAYS MINISTRIES INC?
YOUNG PEOPLE'S CHURCH OF THE AIR INC is the largest funder on record, with $115,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SONRAYS MINISTRIES INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 8 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