Illinois · Nonprofit
TCT MINISTRIES INC
TCT MINISTRIES INC (Illinois) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $55,935 to it, the largest being Thrivent Financial for Lutherans ($34,981). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $17M
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $56k
- Net assets
- $14M
What Tct Ministries Inc does
Mission
Religious broadcasting
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The lives of millions of people have been touched by the broadcast of the gospel message. People have been saved, healed, and ministered to in countless ways through this television network.
$8,658,137 spent$5,196,055 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $8,658,137.
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 $13M to $16M (+31%).
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.
67% of TCT MINISTRIES INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (84% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 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
Bunker Sessions
President & CEO
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 2 funders, grant income fell $18k → $335.
3 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 29% 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 TCT 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
TCT MINISTRIES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 63% of grant income and the top three 89%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
91% 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 TCT MINISTRIES INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 62% · 2019 83% · 2020 55% · 2021 96% · 2022 91% · 2023 70% — 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.
How long its funders stay
40% of TCT MINISTRIES INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
TCT MINISTRIES INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Illinois, across 5 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $16k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
TCT MINISTRIES INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 249 religion nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 249 religion nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Organizations like TCT 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 Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
64% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
74%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 4 related entities
- Tri-State Christian Tv · exempt
- Tct of Michigan Inc · exempt
- Radiant Life Ministries Inc · exempt
- Faith Broadcasting Network Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for TCT MINISTRIES INC: 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 TCT MINISTRIES INC?
- TCT MINISTRIES INC (Illinois) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $55,935 to it, the largest being Thrivent Financial for Lutherans ($34,981). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does TCT MINISTRIES INC have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $55,935 in grants to TCT MINISTRIES INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of TCT MINISTRIES INC?
- Thrivent Financial for Lutherans is the largest funder on record, with $34,981 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TCT MINISTRIES INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing