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THE SOULFISHER MINISTRIES

THE SOULFISHER MINISTRIES (Missouri) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,624,875 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC ($536,296). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$2.5M
Funders on record
19
Grants received
$1.6M
Net assets
$1.1M
12/19 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 25%
01What it does

What The Soulfisher Ministries does

Mission

The mission of The Soulfisher Ministries is to respond to the needs of youth with incarcerated parents and to promote restorative justice for those currently and formerly incarcerated.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Enal - school-based tutoring program specifically designed to captivate and improve the academic success of its participating students. Agape - pre and post release program providing life skills, goal setting, relationship restoration, restorative justice opportunities, and access to transitional housing.

    $1,966,185 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,966,185.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($922k) Expenses 100 ($1.1M) Net assets 100 ($216k)2021 Revenue 129 ($1.2M) Expenses 102 ($1.1M) Net assets 152 ($328k)2022 Revenue 326 ($3.0M) Expenses 128 ($1.4M) Net assets 916 ($2.0M)2023 Revenue 200 ($1.8M) Expenses 211 ($2.2M) Net assets 735 ($1.6M)2024 Revenue 270 ($2.5M) Expenses 285 ($3.0M) Net assets 496 ($1.1M)
20202021202220232024
Revenue (270)Expenses (285)Net assets (496)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 2021 to 2022, from $806k to $2.6M (+224%).

$688k
$806k
$2.6M
$2.6M
$3.9M
20202021202220232024
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.

2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2022 85% · 2023 93% · 2024 94%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

100% of THE SOULFISHER MINISTRIES’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,352 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

−$137k
’20
$112k
’21
$1.7M
’22
−$391k
’23
−$521k
’24
0.1
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

Shawntelle Fisher

CEO

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

20202021202220232024
Listed797129
Joined·+5+2+6+3
No longer listed·3416
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $11k → $462k.

4 of 19 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 37% 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 SOULFISHER MINISTRIES’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 SOULFISHER MINISTRIES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 33% of grant income and the top three 69%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

80% 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 SOULFISHER MINISTRIES.

33%
largest funder
69%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 71% · 2018 70% · 2019 100% · 2020 50% · 2021 55% · 2022 48% · 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

43% of THE SOULFISHER MINISTRIES's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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

79% of THE SOULFISHER MINISTRIES's grant income comes from Missouri funders.

WA
IL
MO
TN
TX

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

’17
’18
’20
’21
’22
’23
Missouri out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $596k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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

THE SOULFISHER MINISTRIES has grown faster than three-quarters of the 11,752 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−21% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve0.1mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)28% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,752 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Government funding THE SOULFISHER MINISTRIES receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $6.2M on record.

Federal$6.2M
grants $6.2Mcontracts $0
18
22
24
Top agencies
  • Department of Justice$6.2M

Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.

Organizations like THE SOULFISHER MINISTRIES

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

65% of spending goes to programs.

Program 65%Management 27%Fundraising 8%

Governance

6
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention–Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

98%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MO

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Questions and answers

Who funds THE SOULFISHER MINISTRIES?
THE SOULFISHER MINISTRIES (Missouri) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,624,875 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC ($536,296). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does THE SOULFISHER MINISTRIES have?
IRS filings report 19 organizations giving $1,624,875 in grants to THE SOULFISHER MINISTRIES, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of THE SOULFISHER MINISTRIES?
UNITED WAY OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC is the largest funder on record, with $536,296 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like THE SOULFISHER MINISTRIES 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 FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 19 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