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Straight Up Ministries Inc

Straight Up Ministries Inc (Indiana) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $131,333 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($90,174). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 92% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$1.7M
Funders on record
8
Grants received
$131k
Net assets
$3.1M
3/8 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 10%
01What it does

What Straight Up Ministries Inc does

Mission

Straight Up Youth is a relationally-focused youth club that provides students an encouraging environment for teens to engage in positive activities and receive much needed spiritual guidance.Our emphasis is building character, responsibility and identity into the lives of teenagers, creating an atmosphere where meaningful relationships are formed.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. 1. activities/outings and program expenses weekly mentoring and club meetings where youth have been taught life skills and character training. 2. field trips and seasonal outings to state parks, lakes, and other natural settings for boating, skiing and outdoor adventure like ice skating, putt putt golf and other activities with at risk youth who would otherwise never have the opportunity.3. mini camp retreat both in summer and winter where we took kids away for 3 day s for fun and ingtentiional investment in their lives. we sponsored All youth at no cost to their families.4. summer garden for sustainable communities 5. host summer camps for other local youth organizations in addition to current student members of Straight up ministries

    $264,848 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $264,848.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($201k) Expenses 100 ($287k) Net assets 100 ($50k)2019 Revenue 124 ($249k) Expenses 100 ($286k) Net assets 26 ($13k)2020 Revenue 98 ($197k) Expenses 52 ($149k) Net assets 123 ($62k)2021 Revenue 280 ($563k) Expenses 40 ($114k) Net assets 1019 ($511k)2022 Revenue 131 ($263k) Expenses 67 ($193k) Net assets 1158 ($581k)2023 Revenue 727 ($1.5M) Expenses 73 ($210k) Net assets 3651 ($1.8M)2024 Revenue 120 ($241k) Expenses 105 ($301k) Net assets 3532 ($1.8M)2025 Revenue 827 ($1.7M) Expenses 108 ($309k) Net assets 6231 ($3.1M)
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Revenue (827)Expenses (108)Net assets (6231)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 2024 to 2025, from $1.9M to $3.3M (+74%).

$374k
$324k
$500k
$649k
$724k
$2.0M
$1.9M
$3.3M
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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.

2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

8% of Straight Up Ministries Inc’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (90% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 2,735 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$86k
’18
−$37k
’19
$49k
’20
$449k
’21
$70k
’22
$1.3M
’23
−$60k
’24
$1.4M
’25
43
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.

2018201920212022202320242025
Listed4444666
Joined·+0·+0+2+0+0
No longer listed·0·0000
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $18k → $24k.

4 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 92% 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 Straight Up 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

Straight Up Ministries Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 69% of grant income and the top three 92%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

95% 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 Straight Up Ministries Inc.

69%
largest funder
92%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 95% · 2018 58% · 2019 47% · 2020 99% · 2021 86% · 2022 100% · 2023 73% — 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

33% of Straight Up 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+4y

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

92% of Straight Up Ministries 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 $11k that is directly attributable, 91% of it comes from Indiana funders.

IN
FL

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

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Indiana out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $120k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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

Straight Up Ministries Inc runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,211 religion nonprofits its size.

Operating margin81% · top quartile
Months of reserve43.2mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)35% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,211 religion nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

86% of spending goes to programs.

Program 86%Management 14%Fundraising 0%

Governance

6
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

30%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

IN

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Questions and answers

Who funds Straight Up Ministries Inc?
Straight Up Ministries Inc (Indiana) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $131,333 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($90,174). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 92% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does Straight Up Ministries Inc have?
IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $131,333 in grants to Straight Up Ministries Inc, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Straight Up Ministries Inc?
NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC is the largest funder on record, with $90,174 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Straight Up Ministries Inc find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Indiana. 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 2018–2025), 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