Tennessee · Nonprofit
STREETS MINISTRIES INC
STREETS MINISTRIES INC (Tennessee) receives grants from 35 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,302,236 to it, the largest being CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MEMPHIS ($4,861,358). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 83% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.5M
- Funders on record
- 35
- Grants received
- $6.3M
- Net assets
- $7.0M
What Streets Ministries Inc does
Mission
Through the love of jesus christ, streets ministries engages, encourages, and equips youth to achieve their potential by realizing their god-given purpose
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Ministry activities include mentoring, outreach, educational and recreational programs outside of the structure of school for 300 plus youth daily between both streets locations.south city lights is a midnight basketball crime intervention initiative. Streets ministries opens its doors on friday evenings from 7pm to midnight at the vance location. The target population are youth and young adults from 16 to 24 years old. Streets ministries partners with local violence prevention and intervention specialists to support this program.
$1,197,427 spent$1,190 earned by the program62% of program spendingEducation - streets pathways mentoring strives to equip our members with the knowledge, skills, and experiences they'll need to reach their full potential personally and professionally. The pathways program is designed to help middle and high school students find success in school and then transition to college, vocational school, military, or the workforce. We train our mentors to focus on helping our students grow in the areas of: social skills, literacy, academic improvement, college and career readiness, and spiritual development.streets smart is a literacy program for 2nd and 3rd grade students. The goal for streets smart is for all students to be reading on 3rd grade level by the completion of the program. This literacy program serves approximately 30 students yearly.nextlevel mentoring: prepares high school juniors and seniors for life after graduation through college readiness, career exploration, internships, and job shadowing opportunities.
$566,047 spent29% of program spendingSending out urban leaders (soul) activities include recruiting, training, and resourcing potential leaders in order to impact the youth of memphis with the gospel of jesus christ.
$173,654 spent9% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,937,128.
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 2022 to 2023, from $8.5M to $12M (+39%).
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: 2018 4% · 2019 3% · 2020 1% · 2021 9% · 2022 9% · 2023 4% · 2024 2% · 2025 11%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
95% of STREETS MINISTRIES INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 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.
Chief executive
Eric Ballentine
Executive director
Board chair
Dan Weddle
Director/chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2018 and FY2019 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 10 funders to 14 funders, grant income fell $1.0M → $482k.
9 of 35 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 83% 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 STREETS MINISTRIES INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 35 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
STREETS MINISTRIES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 77% of grant income and the top three 84%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
92% 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 STREETS MINISTRIES INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 92% · 2018 32% · 2019 86% · 2020 89% · 2021 85% · 2022 63% · 2023 45% — 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
43% of STREETS MINISTRIES INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 51% give in more than one year at all.
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
83% of STREETS 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 $1.1M that is directly attributable, 71% of it comes from Tennessee funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
STREETS MINISTRIES INC is better cushioned than half of the 6,891 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,891 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like STREETS MINISTRIES 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 Tennessee
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
91%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 5 related entities
- Streets Ministries Downtown LLC · disregarded
- Streets Ministries Graham Heights LLC · disregarded
- Streets Ministries Management LLC · disregarded
- Streets Ministries Real Estate LLC · disregarded
- Soul for the City LLC · disregarded
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Questions and answers
- Who funds STREETS MINISTRIES INC?
- STREETS MINISTRIES INC (Tennessee) receives grants from 35 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,302,236 to it, the largest being CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MEMPHIS ($4,861,358). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 83% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does STREETS MINISTRIES INC have?
- IRS filings report 35 organizations giving $6,302,236 in grants to STREETS MINISTRIES INC, 18 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of STREETS MINISTRIES INC?
- CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MEMPHIS is the largest funder on record, with $4,861,358 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like STREETS MINISTRIES INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Tennessee. 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 35 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