South Dakota · Nonprofit
TREE OF LIFE MINISTRY
TREE OF LIFE MINISTRY (South Dakota) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $168,665 to it, the largest being CENTER FOR DISASTER PHILANTHROPY INC ($140,448). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2019
- $759k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $169k
- Net assets
- $690k
What Tree of Life Ministry does
Mission
Organizations mission Tree of Life Ministry is a relief agency to the poorest racial group in the usa. Our mission is to provide food, clothing, and free safety home repairs, in a manner that offers respect and compassion without making the recipients feel humiliated by the poverty or inability to provide for themselves. A second mission is to provide cross-cultural education to non-native americans to break down predjudice and separation.
As stated on its FY2018 Form 990.
Program
Food pantry and free hot meal program the warm welcome food pantry is open 4 days a week, 50 weeks a year, and averages 190 families that sign in each day. In 2019, over 560,000 pounds of groceries and 100,000 pounds of non-grocery items deodorant, toothpaste, ext. Were distributed. Two cooks prepare 300 to 350 meals each day, serving over 52,000 free hot lunches during the year. For holidays a special effort is made to assist impoverished familes in celebrating, and 600 to 700 complete meals are served on each of 3 holidays.
The first program described on its most recent Form 990, which lists programs largest first by expense.
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 $1.1M to $772k (−30%).
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.
83% of TREE OF LIFE MINISTRY’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $3k → $10k.
1 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 6% 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 TREE OF LIFE MINISTRY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 4 of 5 funders by total. 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
TREE OF LIFE MINISTRY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 83% 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
94% 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 TREE OF LIFE MINISTRY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 82% · 2019 100% · 2020 99% · 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
TREE OF LIFE MINISTRY draws 95% of its grant income from funders outside South Dakota, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
TREE OF LIFE MINISTRY's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,357 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2019
Organizations like TREE OF LIFE MINISTRY
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 South Dakota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 TREE OF LIFE 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 TREE OF LIFE MINISTRY?
- TREE OF LIFE MINISTRY (South Dakota) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $168,665 to it, the largest being CENTER FOR DISASTER PHILANTHROPY INC ($140,448). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does TREE OF LIFE MINISTRY have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $168,665 in grants to TREE OF LIFE MINISTRY, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of TREE OF LIFE MINISTRY?
- CENTER FOR DISASTER PHILANTHROPY INC is the largest funder on record, with $140,448 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TREE OF LIFE MINISTRY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in South Dakota. 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 FY2019 (financials across 2017–2019), and the filings of 5 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