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THE MAIN & PLAIN INC

THE MAIN & PLAIN INC (New Jersey) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $82,000 to it, the largest being RHEMA FOUNDATION INC FKA CORAM DEO FOUNDATION INC ($42,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$96k
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$82k
Net assets
$16k
2/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 20%
01What it does

What The Main & Plain Inc does

Mission

Religious education organization

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. The main & plain helps pastors, emerging leaders and churches in a simple, practical way to serve effectively over the long haul.

    $91,665 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $91,665.

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 ($103k) Expenses 100 ($110k) Net assets 100 ($50k)2018 Revenue 140 ($143k) Expenses 137 ($151k) Net assets 63 ($32k)2019 Revenue 99 ($102k) Expenses 108 ($119k) Net assets 29 ($15k)2020 Revenue 113 ($116k) Expenses 97 ($107k) Net assets 47 ($24k)2021 Revenue 122 ($125k) Expenses 93 ($103k) Net assets 90 ($45k)2022 Revenue 98 ($100k) Expenses 101 ($111k) Net assets 69 ($35k)2023 Revenue 89 ($92k) Expenses 102 ($112k) Net assets 26 ($13k)2024 Revenue 113 ($116k) Expenses 99 ($109k) Net assets 40 ($20k)2025 Revenue 94 ($96k) Expenses 91 ($100k) Net assets 32 ($16k)
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Revenue (94)Expenses (91)Net assets (32)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 2019 to 2020, from $16k to $38k (+132%).

$51k
$33k
$16k
$38k
$49k
$36k
$17k
$24k
$20k
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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

100% of THE MAIN & PLAIN INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 14,623 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$8k
’17
−$8k
’18
−$17k
’19
$9k
’20
$22k
’21
−$11k
’22
−$20k
’23
$7k
’24
−$4k
’25
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $12k → $10k.

From the IRS filings of THE MAIN & PLAIN 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

THE MAIN & PLAIN INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 51% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

49% 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 THE MAIN & PLAIN INC.

51%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2021 60% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.

“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

THE MAIN & PLAIN INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside New Jersey, across 2 states in all.

WI
NY

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

’17
’21
’23
New Jersey out of state home

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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

THE MAIN & PLAIN INC has grown faster than half of the 6,869 religion nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−4% · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−1% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,869 religion nonprofits under $100k, FY2025

Organizations like THE MAIN & PLAIN 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 New Jersey

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Public support

68%

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds THE MAIN & PLAIN INC?
THE MAIN & PLAIN INC (New Jersey) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $82,000 to it, the largest being RHEMA FOUNDATION INC FKA CORAM DEO FOUNDATION INC ($42,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does THE MAIN & PLAIN INC have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $82,000 in grants to THE MAIN & PLAIN INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of THE MAIN & PLAIN INC?
RHEMA FOUNDATION INC FKA CORAM DEO FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $42,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like THE MAIN & PLAIN INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Jersey. 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 2 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