Texas · Nonprofit
THE PRAYER INSTITUTE
THE PRAYER INSTITUTE (Texas) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $201,625 to it, the largest being The Robert and Janice McNair Foundation ($150,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $180k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $202k
- Net assets
- $758k
What The Prayer Institute does
Mission
To pray effective, efficacious prayers that will produce god's plans on earth and to build an army of praying believers who will: position themselves as watchmen for our world; establish the kingdom of god on earth as he has purposed it in heaven: and destroy the strategies and assignments of the devil.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Our small team worked tirelessly to continue programming while we were in transition. Here are a few highlights from 2022: in march, the national prayer connection (npc) commemorated one year with over 150 participants representing 35 states and several different countries logging in each week to join us in intercessory prayer. In april we launched our first national prayer walk where believers from more than 20 states gathered with small groups to safely pray for their communities using our national prayer walk guide. We also began the 8-week virtual prayer 101 class and 17 new students were trained. In july, we welcomed our new executive director, nickcole byrd to the team. Since nickcoles arrival, we have continued with programming as we work to tailor our message. In september, over 100 people signed up to attend the tpi virtual meet n greet. Guests met our new executive director and were encouraged with the message dont let your fire burn out as october rolled around, we were in our second week of a 21-day prayer challenge. Over 150 participants signed up and were given access to a prayer guide to support the message led by challenge leaders.
$1,047,110 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,047,110.
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 $1.2M to $1.4M (+13%).
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 39% · 2021 79% · 2023 21% · 2024 53%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
53% of THE PRAYER INSTITUTE’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. 6 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.
Board chair
Suzette Caldwell
Chairperson
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $25k → $35k.
2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 21% 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 THE PRAYER INSTITUTE’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 PRAYER INSTITUTE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 74% of grant income and the top three 95%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 56% · 2019 67% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 79% · 2023 71% — 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.
Where its funders are
94% of THE PRAYER INSTITUTE's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $42k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
THE PRAYER INSTITUTE holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters 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 THE PRAYER INSTITUTE
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 Texas
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
66%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE PRAYER INSTITUTE: 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 THE PRAYER INSTITUTE?
- THE PRAYER INSTITUTE (Texas) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $201,625 to it, the largest being The Robert and Janice McNair Foundation ($150,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE PRAYER INSTITUTE have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $201,625 in grants to THE PRAYER INSTITUTE, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE PRAYER INSTITUTE?
- The Robert and Janice McNair Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $150,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE PRAYER INSTITUTE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 4 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