North Carolina · Nonprofit
WEST END MINISTRIES
WEST END MINISTRIES (North Carolina) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,395,543 to it, the largest being The Winston-Salem Foundation ($391,600). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.9M
- Funders on record
- 27
- Grants received
- $1.4M
- Net assets
- $3.5M
What West End Ministries does
Mission
The mission of West End Ministries is to strategically build a stronger, safer and all-inclusive community by working with the residents and other stakeholders to make the west end community a better place for all who live, learn, work and worship here.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
West End Ministries was established to combat the increasing poverty and struggles throughout our community and the greater high point area. Wem was founded in 2001 with programs that meet short-term crisis needs and solutions that will enable individuals to grow as they work towards long-term success. Programs include such as the west end food pantry, weekly community meal, mobile pantry, community garden, crisis financial assistance, senior adults program, as well as leslie's house shelter, a 20-bed emergency shelter for women without dependents who are experiencing homelessness and are in crisis is consistently at full capacity. In addition, a women's winter shelter is open for 4 months each year. West end provides free counseling to the community and also has an active life skills program.
$1,813,925 spentof which $1,236,329 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,813,925.
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 2023 to 2024, from $1.9M to $3.6M (+89%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 7% · 2019 8% · 2020 25% · 2021 16% · 2022 11% · 2023 17% · 2024 6% · 2025 11%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
103% of WEST END MINISTRIES’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (93% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 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
Brad Bowers
Executive director
Board chair
John Weatherton
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018, and between the FY2019 and FY2020 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $41k → $143k.
5 of 27 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 45% 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 WEST END MINISTRIES’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 25 of 27 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
WEST END MINISTRIES has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 28% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
59% 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 WEST END MINISTRIES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 68% · 2018 76% · 2019 86% · 2020 25% · 2021 45% · 2022 71% · 2023 49% — diversifying over time.
“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
29% of WEST END MINISTRIES's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% 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
WEST END MINISTRIES draws 56% of its grant income from funders outside North Carolina, across 6 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $624k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.
Against its field
WEST END MINISTRIES has grown faster than half of the 852 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 852 crime & legal nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like WEST END MINISTRIES
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 North Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WEST END MINISTRIES: 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 WEST END MINISTRIES?
- WEST END MINISTRIES (North Carolina) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,395,543 to it, the largest being The Winston-Salem Foundation ($391,600). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WEST END MINISTRIES have?
- IRS filings report 27 organizations giving $1,395,543 in grants to WEST END MINISTRIES, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WEST END MINISTRIES?
- The Winston-Salem Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $391,600 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WEST END MINISTRIES find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. 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 27 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