California · Nonprofit
Teaching Like Jesus Ministries Inc
Teaching Like Jesus Ministries Inc (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $50,000 to it, the largest being LILLY ENDOWMENT INC ($50,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $124k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $50k
- Net assets
- $-20193
What Teaching Like Jesus Ministries Inc does
Mission
To provide Christian education services to churches and religious organizations, equipping leaders in the local church. The ministry is dedicated to its seminary-quality education, training and resources.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
The $30525 was received from the Urban Ministries Inc with office in 1551 Regency Court, Calumet City Illinois 60409 for Sunday School made simple. The $85000 was allocated for transportation, lodging and accomodation. The ministry offers leaders in inner-city Christian churches seminary-quality education, and resources to help them reach and teach the Bible effectively to all age groups. The ministry includes assisting pastors with implementing a foster-adoption program.
$85,000 spent$30,525 earned by the program83% of program spendingWelcoming Children Into Worship is a program designed to equip pastors with the theory, practices, and resources necessary for intergenerational worship, enabling them to effectively teach children about Jesus, the Savior.
$16,906 spent$78,000 earned by the program17% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $101,906.
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 2017 to 2018, from $695 to $-8589 (−1336%).
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.
70% of Teaching Like Jesus Ministries Inc’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (100% 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
La Verne Tolbert
CEO President
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of Teaching Like Jesus 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.
Where its funders are
Teaching Like Jesus Ministries Inc draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 1 state in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
Teaching Like Jesus Ministries Inc runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 12,816 religion nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,816 religion nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like Teaching Like Jesus 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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
99% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 Teaching Like Jesus 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 Teaching Like Jesus Ministries Inc?
- Teaching Like Jesus Ministries Inc (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $50,000 to it, the largest being LILLY ENDOWMENT INC ($50,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Teaching Like Jesus Ministries Inc have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $50,000 in grants to Teaching Like Jesus Ministries Inc.
- Who is the largest funder of Teaching Like Jesus Ministries Inc?
- LILLY ENDOWMENT INC is the largest funder on record, with $50,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Teaching Like Jesus Ministries Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 1 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