Florida · Nonprofit
SOWERS4PASTORS INC
SOWERS4PASTORS INC (Florida) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $79,654 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($30,480). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 97% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.0M
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $80k
- Net assets
- $1.3M
What Sowers4pastors Inc does
Mission
Sowers4Pastors is a religious and humanitarian outreach ministry furthering the Gospel message while providing benevolent support and assistance to those in need primarily in western Honduras. Resources are provided to Honduran pastors and missionaries. Assistance includes Bible training, feeding centers, church construction projects, assistance in purchasing motorcycles for pastors, school construction projects, and collecting and distributing backpacks, school supplies, school shoes and other needs to assist children getting an education.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
The primary program of Sowers4Pastors is outreach ministry furthering the Gospel message, while providing benevolent support and assistance to those in need primarily in western Honduras. Resources are provided to Honduran pastors, Honduran missionaries, Honduran evangelists, Honduran families, and Honduran children. Assistance includes Bible training, feeding centers, and collecting and distributing backpacks, school supplies, school shoes and other needs to assist children getting an education. In 2024, 5,200 backpacks full of school supplies and 3,600 pairs of shoes were collected and distributed. As many children in western Honduras do not attend school specifically because their families are unable to purchase the required school supplies, this project empowers the children to get an education. Additionally, the organization facilitates 80 feeding programs, feeding 8,000 children twice per week. We distributed 3,600 Bibles and Bible story books to children. We also facilitate a pastor training school, which 44 pastors attended during 2024. A total of 90 were also trained as Sunday School teachers. Sowers4Pastors has been funded under the umbrella of other nonprofit…
$765,529 spentof which $417,516 as grants94% of program spendingConstruction projects - To further the primary mission, the organization assists local villages with church construction. The assistance is primarily with roofing materials after church walls are already built by the local villages themselves. In 2024, Sowers4Pastors helped 22 churches with their construction projects. Since 2001, the ministry has been involved with the construction of 240 churches, 32 bridges, 18 schools, 120 new houses, as well as assisting with renovations and repairs of 125 houses damaged by hurricanes or poorly constructed due to poverty, and more than 25 community water and municipal projects.
$20,905 spentof which $20,905 as grants3% of program spendingTransportation - To further the primary mission, the organization assists local Honduran pastors in purchasing a motorcycle, horse or mule requiring that they at least pay a portion themselves. Motorcycles, horses and mules assist the pastors that often have several congregations in different villages. In 2024, Sowers4Pastors helped pastors purchase 20 motorcycles. Since 2006, 448 pastors have been assisted with motorcycles and 71 pastors with horses or mules.
$28,746 spentof which $28,746 as grants4% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $815,180.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 $508k to $839k (+65%).
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.
98% of SOWERS4PASTORS INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 7 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.
Chief executive
Allen L Sowers
President/CEO/Director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $742 → $6k.
5 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 97% 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 SOWERS4PASTORS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 6 of 7 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
SOWERS4PASTORS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 80%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
97% 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 SOWERS4PASTORS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2020 95% · 2021 92% · 2022 49% · 2023 93% — 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.
Where its funders are
97% of SOWERS4PASTORS 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 $2k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Florida, across 1 state.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $78k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
SOWERS4PASTORS INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 2,910 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,910 philanthropy nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like SOWERS4PASTORS 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 Florida
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
94% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 SOWERS4PASTORS 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 SOWERS4PASTORS INC?
- SOWERS4PASTORS INC (Florida) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $79,654 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($30,480). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 97% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does SOWERS4PASTORS INC have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $79,654 in grants to SOWERS4PASTORS INC, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SOWERS4PASTORS INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $30,480 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SOWERS4PASTORS INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Florida. 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 2018–2024), and the filings of 7 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