Texas · Nonprofit
True Course Ministries Inc
True Course Ministries Inc (Texas) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $97 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($97). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $45k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $97
- Net assets
- $40k
What True Course Ministries Inc does
Mission
The purpose of True Course Ministries is to enrich the life of the present and future Church by enriching the spiritual leadership qualities of professional ministers and assisting churches in achieving the greatest possible health.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
True Course Ministries designs custom mentoring experiences for Christian ministers as a method of continuing education. Activities include initial meetings, regular meetings, problem solving and focus groups, and strategic planning meetings.
$29,095 spent66% of program spendingTrue Course Ministries conducts International Interim pastorates and consultation to students. Activities of this program focus on preaching, counseling, pastoral care, administrative and program leadership for churches currently without a regular pastor.
$7,494 spent17% of program spendingTrue Course Ministries provides training and research in educational psychology. The training and research activities include studies of educational psychology and scientifically based research in learning as it applies to the training of leaders in Christian faith-based ministry.
$7,494 spent17% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $44,083.
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 2021 to 2022, from $43k to $95k (+119%).
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.
61% of True Course Ministries Inc’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. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
J Michael Godfrey DMin PhD
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $12 → $23.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 True Course 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.
Where its funders are
100% of True Course Ministries Inc's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $97 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
True Course Ministries Inc runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 6,869 religion nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,869 religion nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like True Course 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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
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 True Course 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 True Course Ministries Inc?
- True Course Ministries Inc (Texas) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $97 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($97). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does True Course Ministries Inc have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $97 in grants to True Course Ministries Inc, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of True Course Ministries Inc?
- AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $97 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like True Course Ministries Inc 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 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing