Wisconsin · Nonprofit
TIMBER-LEE MINISTRIES INC
TIMBER-LEE MINISTRIES INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,156,410 to it, the largest being KUNES FAMILY FOUNDATION ($843,228). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.6M
- Funders on record
- 15
- Grants received
- $1.2M
- Net assets
- $566k
What Timber-Lee Ministries Inc does
Mission
To create engaging communities where each young person encounters christ through a dynamic camp experience.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Total of 1402 campers joined 8wks of overnight camp programs that run mid june to mid august.
$1,256,766 spent$1,180,069 earned by the program35% of program spendingTeach science classes, team building and ropes course activities, trail rides and ranch experiences 7292 students.
$1,182,839 spent$1,041,578 earned by the program33% of program spendingTotal 7115 of attendees. Mix of full service retreats, with worship and speakers with an emphasis of spiritual growth, ability for groups to do their own programming, (overnight, day, campground, winter xtreme-youth groups, parent/child retreats, mother/daughter, father/son)
$1,173,450 spent$1,133,301 earned by the program32% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,613,055.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $636k to $1.3M (+99%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 3 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
Michael Todd Ballard
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $34k → $572k.
9 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 25% 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 TIMBER-LEE 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
TIMBER-LEE MINISTRIES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 73% of grant income and the top three 90%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
25% 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 TIMBER-LEE MINISTRIES INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 67% · 2018 65% · 2019 73% · 2020 64% · 2021 92% · 2022 99% · 2023 96% — 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
43% of TIMBER-LEE MINISTRIES INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% 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
98% of TIMBER-LEE MINISTRIES INC's grant income comes from Wisconsin funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $292k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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.
Organizations like TIMBER-LEE 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 Wisconsin
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
88%
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 TIMBER-LEE 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 TIMBER-LEE MINISTRIES INC?
- TIMBER-LEE MINISTRIES INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,156,410 to it, the largest being KUNES FAMILY FOUNDATION ($843,228). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does TIMBER-LEE MINISTRIES INC have?
- IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $1,156,410 in grants to TIMBER-LEE MINISTRIES INC, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of TIMBER-LEE MINISTRIES INC?
- KUNES FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $843,228 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TIMBER-LEE MINISTRIES INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Wisconsin. 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 15 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