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SUNSHINE MINISTRIES INC

SUNSHINE MINISTRIES INC (Missouri) receives grants from 44 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,095,743 to it, the largest being DOREA FOUNDATION ($500,000). 34 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$2.0M
Funders on record
44
Grants received
$2.1M
Net assets
$20M
34/44 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 21%
01What it does

What Sunshine Ministries Inc does

Mission

Sunshine ministries is committed to providing high-quality christian social services to the poor and needy of st. Louis by offering healing from the past, help for the present and hope for the future. See schedule o for continuation.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Men's resident shelter program - this is a residential program that can serve up to 28 homeless men. The men live in the men's center and participate in classes that address each individual's needs physically, emotionally, spiritually, and intellectually. The men also receive a.a./n.a. Support groups, as well as life skill and vocational readiness training including help with resumes, job applications and interviewing skills. The men are provided with all of their meals as well as clothing and toiletries as needed.

    $652,553 spent
    53% of program spending
  2. Family services - sunshine ministries offers a program for women who are from the local community. This program offers food, clothing and many life skill classes to assist them in improving their lives. There are approximately 250 women and their families registered at this time.

    $574,002 spent
    47% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,226,555.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($1.9M) Expenses 100 ($1.6M) Net assets 100 ($16M)2018 Revenue 80 ($1.6M) Expenses 110 ($1.7M) Net assets 99 ($15M)2019 Revenue 84 ($1.6M) Expenses 111 ($1.7M) Net assets 99 ($15M)2020 Revenue 90 ($1.7M) Expenses 105 ($1.6M) Net assets 102 ($16M)2021 Revenue 87 ($1.7M) Expenses 96 ($1.5M) Net assets 113 ($18M)2022 Revenue 91 ($1.8M) Expenses 100 ($1.5M) Net assets 109 ($17M)2023 Revenue 101 ($1.9M) Expenses 107 ($1.7M) Net assets 112 ($17M)2024 Revenue 101 ($2.0M) Expenses 88 ($1.4M) Net assets 119 ($19M)2025 Revenue 106 ($2.0M) Expenses 90 ($1.4M) Net assets 127 ($20M)
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Revenue (106)Expenses (90)Net assets (127)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 2020 to 2021, from $16M to $18M (+11%).

$16M
$15M
$15M
$16M
$18M
$17M
$18M
$19M
$20M
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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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

78% of SUNSHINE MINISTRIES INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 11,793 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$381k
’17
−$155k
’18
−$106k
’19
$111k
’20
$182k
’21
$205k
’22
$291k
’23
$595k
’24
$654k
’25
40
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.

Chief executive

Carol Clarkson

President/CEO/secretary

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed766667666
Joined·+1+0+0+1+1+0+1+0
No longer listed·20010110
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 18 funders to 24 funders, grant income rose $85k → $372k.

9 of 44 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 39% 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 SUNSHINE MINISTRIES INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 44 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

SUNSHINE MINISTRIES INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 24% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left

39% 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 SUNSHINE MINISTRIES INC.

24%
largest funder
50%
top three
~9
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 34% · 2018 24% · 2019 46% · 2020 41% · 2021 42% · 2022 27% · 2023 27% — 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

76% of SUNSHINE MINISTRIES INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 77% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

SUNSHINE MINISTRIES INC draws 72% of its grant income from funders outside Missouri, across 10 states in all.

VT
MN
IL
NY
NV
CT
MO
NC
TX
FL

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

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Missouri out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $808k arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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

SUNSHINE MINISTRIES INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 6,891 human services nonprofits its size.

Operating margin32% · top quartile
Months of reserve40.2mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)1% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,891 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Organizations like SUNSHINE 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 Missouri

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

88% of spending goes to programs.

Program 88%Management 5%Fundraising 7%

Governance

6
board members
83%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

87%

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

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 2 related entities

  • Eagle Lodge LLC · disregarded
  • Sunshine Ministries Youth & Family Center LLC · disregarded

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Questions and answers

Who funds SUNSHINE MINISTRIES INC?
SUNSHINE MINISTRIES INC (Missouri) receives grants from 44 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,095,743 to it, the largest being DOREA FOUNDATION ($500,000). 34 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does SUNSHINE MINISTRIES INC have?
IRS filings report 44 organizations giving $2,095,743 in grants to SUNSHINE MINISTRIES INC, 34 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of SUNSHINE MINISTRIES INC?
DOREA FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $500,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SUNSHINE MINISTRIES INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Missouri. 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 44 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