California · Nonprofit
STIRRING WATERS MINISTRIES
STIRRING WATERS MINISTRIES (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $108 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($108). 2 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
- $0
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $108
- Net assets
- $277k
What Stirring Waters Ministries does
Mission
Stirring Waters is a volunteer-run Special Needs Day Class and At-Risk Youth Club that provide individuals with disabilities and at-risk youth and adults the opportunity to learn socialize develop independent and life skills and increase community involvement. We are geared toward offering a variety of fun and challenging experiences on a daily basis. We focus on the individual while increasing social group and team participation. We increase our communitys ability to accept and include people with simple human differences creating a welcoming environment where all can participate and reach their full potential. Each person is valued and affirmed as an individual and supported to express and develop their uniqueness.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Providing cultural dance and dance movements with cultural roots. Arts and History along with faith from dances. Focus on Dia de Los Muertos Posada and Pascua
$23,610 spent41% of program spendingvolunteer-run Special Needs Day Class. Classes provide individuals with disabilities the opportunity to learn socialize develop independent and life skills and increase community involvement. We are geared toward offering a variety of fun and challenging experiences on a daily basis. We focus on the individual while increasing social group and team participation. We increase our communitys ability to accept and include people with simple human differences creating a welcoming environment where all can participate and reach their full potential. Each person is valued and affirmed as an individual and supported to express and develop their uniqueness.
$17,677 spent31% of program spendingWe support at-risk teens and young adults through encouragement accountability and high moral standard living. We work at education life spiritual psychological and vocational skills via mentorship spiritual enhancement volunteerism dance Folklrico and vocational training. We provide an environment that challenges and supports an atmosphere free from drugs sex alcohol wrong music and negative attitude. A huge emphasis has been made to set a standard to return and complete high school and or attain G.E.D. attend college university and or training programs attain responsible work and continue community service.
$13,612 spent24% of program spendingWe are geared toward offering a variety of fun and challenging experiences on a daily basis. We focus on the individual while increasing social group and team participation. We increase our communitys ability to accept and include people with simple human differences creating a welcoming environment where all can participate and reach their full potential. Each person is valued and affirmed as an individual and supported to express and develop their uniqueness.
$1,951 spent3% of program spendingThis 2 hour Sunday drop-in class offers teens and adults with disabilities a once week specialized class that is both interactive and visual to encourage them with peer learning music dialogue and personal sharing time. We are committed to helping Special Needs attendees establish friendship inclusion advocacy and development. This allowable time for families and care providers lifts burdens and countenance in their relational dynamics alleviating stress and granting respite to provider family or group home
$652 spent1% of program spendingWeekly volunteer-run Sunday time for families and friends to gather together to encourages and support Special Needs attendees persons as they have an opportunity to share their gifts talents and excel at their level. This 1 our time is used to network Special Needs families to other Special Needs families for encouragement plus provide ongoing spiritual emotional and community support. This ends isolation and disconnectedness of persons with disabilities and their families
$0 spent0% of program spendingvocal instruments rhythm and creative art expression
$0 spent0% of program spendingdaily reading at an individual level with stress free time allocations along with Life Application with Study Worksheets
$0 spent0% of program spendingthru their shared personal struggles and challenges we offer discussion topics i.e. making good choices practical day to day challenges loneliness spiritual challenges friendships relationships health goals personal vision and death.
$0 spent0% of program spendingpartnering with local businesses and non-profits Special Needs attendees are able to learn basic vocational training and work ethics while supervised and directed at their level and pace.
$0 spent0% of program spendingOn-line and In-Person that are both interactive and visual to encourage with peer learning music dialogue and personal sharing time. We are committed to helping attendees to establish friendship inclusion advocacy and development. This respite time for families and care providers lifts burdens and alleviates stress
$0 spent0% of program spendingprovide a clean and fun outlet for special needs attendee and volunteer buddy to eat dance take pictures hear a simple practical message and create memories with new friends.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 12 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $57,502.
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 2023 to 2024, from $436k to $277k (−36%).
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.
0% of STIRRING WATERS MINISTRIES’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 4 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
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $17 → $33.
1 of 2 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 STIRRING WATERS MINISTRIES’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 1 of 2 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.
Where its funders are
100% of STIRRING WATERS 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. $108 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
STIRRING WATERS MINISTRIES has grown faster than three-quarters of the 14,851 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,851 human services nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like STIRRING WATERS 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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
3%
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 STIRRING WATERS 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 STIRRING WATERS MINISTRIES?
- STIRRING WATERS MINISTRIES (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $108 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($108). 2 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 STIRRING WATERS MINISTRIES have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $108 in grants to STIRRING WATERS MINISTRIES, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of STIRRING WATERS MINISTRIES?
- AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $108 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like STIRRING WATERS MINISTRIES find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 2 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