Texas · Nonprofit
WALKING FREE PRISON MINISTRY
WALKING FREE PRISON MINISTRY (Texas) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $1,600 to it, the largest being VERIZON FOUNDATION ($1,600). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $65k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $2k
- Net assets
- $6k
What Walking Free Prison Ministry does
Mission
The specific objectives and purpose of this organization shall be:Walking Free Prison Ministry exists to Share the hope that we have in JESUS through the proclamation of GODs word, discipleship, mentorship, teaching, and encouragement to those who are incarcerated and their families.a.Exhorting others to heed the still small voice of GOD.b.Teaching new ways of reacting to lifes hurts, habits, and hang-ups using tools found in Celebrate Recovery and other TDCJ approved programs.c.Providing accountability and mentorship to those who are ready to surrender to JESUS care and control for their life.d.To provide emotional and spiritual support for, and to break the stigma of, shame and guilt resulting from their loved ones incarceration.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Walking Free Prison Ministry exist to Share the hope that we have in JESUS through the proclamation of GODs word, discipleship, mentorship, teaching, and encouragement to those who are incarcerated and their families.a.Exhorting others to heed the still small voice of GOD.b.Teaching new ways of reacting to lifes hurts, habits, and hang-ups using tools found in Celebrate Recovery and other TDCJ approved programs.c.Providing accountability and mentorship to those who are ready to surrender to JESUS care and control for their life.d.To provide emotional and spiritual support for, and to break the stigma of, shame and guilt resulting from their loved ones incarceration.
$61,939 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $61,939.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2024, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2024, 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 at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $2k to $6k (+134%).
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.
100% of WALKING FREE PRISON MINISTRY’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations 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. 1 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of WALKING FREE PRISON 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
WALKING FREE PRISON MINISTRY draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Texas, across 1 state in all.
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.
Against its field
WALKING FREE PRISON MINISTRY has grown faster than three-quarters 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 WALKING FREE PRISON 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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
0%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds WALKING FREE PRISON MINISTRY?
- WALKING FREE PRISON MINISTRY (Texas) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $1,600 to it, the largest being VERIZON FOUNDATION ($1,600). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WALKING FREE PRISON MINISTRY have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $1,600 in grants to WALKING FREE PRISON MINISTRY.
- Who is the largest funder of WALKING FREE PRISON MINISTRY?
- VERIZON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,600 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WALKING FREE PRISON MINISTRY 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2024–2025), 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