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TRANSFORMING LIVES MINISTRY

TRANSFORMING LIVES MINISTRY (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $5,000 to it, the largest being Doxa Foundation ($5,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$29k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$5k
Net assets
$25k
0/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 7%
01What it does

What Transforming Lives Ministry does

Mission

Train and strengthen christian leaders in mozamibque; help the widows and orphans; work with nationals in evangelism and church planting. We do this to fulfill the great commission (mt 28:18-20) and obey jesus' command to love our neighbors as ourselves.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Programs

  1. Build housing for poor widows and orphans in mozambique. This includes one house in lugela where one widow lives with orphans.

    $32,937 spent
    100% of program spending
  2. Booklets were printed for use in our pastoral leadership training among the churches in mozambique.

  3. Mega voice audio bibles were purchased and distributed among the christian leaders of mozambique.

The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $32,937.

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 ($54k) Expenses 100 ($54k) Net assets 100 ($12k)2018 Revenue 87 ($47k) Expenses 90 ($49k) Net assets 82 ($10k)2019 Revenue 75 ($40k) Expenses 87 ($47k) Net assets 108 ($13k)2020 Revenue 83 ($45k) Expenses 121 ($66k) Net assets 18 ($2k)2021 Revenue 139 ($75k) Expenses 100 ($54k) Net assets 191 ($22k)2022 Revenue 47 ($25k) Expenses 70 ($38k) Net assets 83 ($10k)2023 Revenue 41 ($22k) Expenses 56 ($30k) Net assets 12 ($1k)2024 Revenue 113 ($61k) Expenses 62 ($34k) Net assets 243 ($28k)2025 Revenue 55 ($29k) Expenses 61 ($33k) Net assets 211 ($25k)
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Revenue (55)Expenses (61)Net assets (211)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $1k to $28k (+1859%).

$12k
$10k
$13k
$2k
$22k
$10k
$1k
$28k
$25k
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Total assets

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.

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2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of TRANSFORMING LIVES MINISTRY’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 14,675 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$478
’17
−$2k
’18
−$7k
’19
−$21k
’20
$20k
’21
−$13k
’22
−$8k
’23
$27k
’24
−$4k
’25
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'21
total
funders
1

From the IRS filings of TRANSFORMING LIVES MINISTRY’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

100% of TRANSFORMING LIVES MINISTRY's grant income comes from California funders.

CA

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

TRANSFORMING LIVES MINISTRY's revenue fell 45% between 2017 and 2025.

Operating margin−13% · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−7% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,232 religion nonprofits under $100k, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for TRANSFORMING LIVES MINISTRY: 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 TRANSFORMING LIVES MINISTRY?
TRANSFORMING LIVES MINISTRY (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $5,000 to it, the largest being Doxa Foundation ($5,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does TRANSFORMING LIVES MINISTRY have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $5,000 in grants to TRANSFORMING LIVES MINISTRY.
Who is the largest funder of TRANSFORMING LIVES MINISTRY?
Doxa Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $5,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like TRANSFORMING LIVES MINISTRY find more funders?
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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 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing