North Carolina · Nonprofit
STRONG LIFE MINISTRIES
STRONG LIFE MINISTRIES (North Carolina) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $83,356 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($35,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 95% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $287k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $83k
- Net assets
- $666k
What Strong Life Ministries does
Mission
Educate, coordinate resources, provide aid and relief, and foster transformation in the lives of individuals who are in poverty or homelessness
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Client provision and relief - provide food, clothes, toiletries, blankets, backpacks, sleeping bags, laundry facilities and bibles to homeless and needy clients
$98,038 spent45% of program spendingStrong life rescue mission - facility to minister to, evangelize, and assist the homeless and needy
$58,120 spent26% of program spendingStrong life mens program facility - facility to minister to, evangelize, and assist homeless and needy to transition to self- support through employment and addiction recovery
$22,812 spent$21,136 earned by the program10% of program spendingOther programs: transportation program-provide local transport via van or bus passes, greyhound tickets, and vehicle gas or repairs for homeless and needy clients. Other services to homeless and needy.
$41,185 spent19% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $220,155.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2019 to 2020, from $55k to $438k (+702%).
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: 2020 69%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
92% of STRONG LIFE MINISTRIES’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 6 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
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $1k → $27k.
5 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 95% 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 STRONG LIFE MINISTRIES’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
STRONG LIFE MINISTRIES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 42% 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
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 STRONG LIFE MINISTRIES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 66% · 2022 86% · 2023 75% — growing more concentrated.
“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
95% of STRONG LIFE 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. Of the $4k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from North Carolina funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $79k 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
STRONG LIFE MINISTRIES has grown faster than three-quarters of the 21,616 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,616 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like STRONG LIFE 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 North Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
93% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
85%
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 STRONG LIFE 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 STRONG LIFE MINISTRIES?
- STRONG LIFE MINISTRIES (North Carolina) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $83,356 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($35,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 95% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does STRONG LIFE MINISTRIES have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $83,356 in grants to STRONG LIFE MINISTRIES, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of STRONG LIFE MINISTRIES?
- NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC is the largest funder on record, with $35,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like STRONG LIFE MINISTRIES find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. 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 2019–2024), 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing