Colorado · Nonprofit
Wetsembekile Ministries
Wetsembekile Ministries (Colorado) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $941,428 to it, the largest being THRIVENT CHARITABLE IMPACT & INVESTING ($508,500). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 96% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $632k
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $941k
- Net assets
- $-133337
What Wetsembekile Ministries does
Mission
The primary purpose for which Wetsembekile Ministries exists is to come alongside rural and impoverished communities in Eswatini(Swaziland), Africa, to see churches becoming healthy and taking care of the physical, spiritual, and relational needs of their communities.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Community Centers Programs, Projects, and Food : During 2024, Wetsembekile Ministries maintained facilities and wells at 3 community centers, feeding orphaned and vulnerable children approximately 1800 meals over 6 days a week - 90,000 meals in a year. Providing food and clean water improved the lives of hundreds of orphaned and vulnerable children and surrounding community members. Wetsembekile Ministries staff and volunteers hosted fun days and weekly programs at the community centers to help children grow in being more physically, emotionally, relationally,and spiritually healthy. Free preschool was provided for children of the community. At 2 of the community centers,soccer pitches and netball courts were cleared, providing a place for kids to be active but safe as they play. In December, Christmas food parcels were distributed to over 200 families.
$92,252 spent$98,689 earned by the program11% of program spendingBenevolence and Community Outreach: In 2024, Wetsembekile Ministries continued to provide food, housing and basic household improvements for people with no or severly inadequate housing, funds for medical help, and assistance in paying for transportation, uniforms and fees for school for struggling people in the community, including child-led homesteads. A home was built for an elderly widow caring for her grandchildren. The 3 wells and the water distribution systems established in prior years continue to provide clean water to over 250 homesteads.
$75,311 spent$81,180 earned by the program9% of program spendingLocal Farm: Unemployment & food security are 2 of the biggest obstacles to people being holistically healthy in Eswatini. As part of Wetsembekiles vision to see health throughout the communities, Wetsembekile has purchased a 360 acre farm to grow food and provide jobs for local Swazis. In 2024 additional land was purchased & the perimeter cleared. On the first portion of the farm, beans were grown, drip irrigation was installed, and additional land was cleared. In 2024, 80 people were impacted by the jobs provided at the farm, impacting over close to 600 people when you include those living at their homesteads. Not only does this land serve as a living classroom and a source of food security, but it also keeps families together, because parents can work close to home and be home for their children each evening instead of just one weekend a month.
$654,525 spent$400,859 earned by the program80% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $822,088.
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 2022 to 2023, from $37k to $100k (+169%).
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 Wetsembekile Ministries’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. 4 of the last 8 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
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $23k → $295k.
7 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 96% 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 Wetsembekile Ministries’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.
How concentrated its funding is
Wetsembekile Ministries leans on a few funders — its largest provides 54% of grant income and the top three 89%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
99% 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 Wetsembekile Ministries.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 57% · 2020 99% · 2021 75% · 2022 33% · 2023 80% — growing more concentrated.
“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
83% of Wetsembekile Ministries's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 80% 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
96% of Wetsembekile Ministries'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. Of the $34k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Colorado, across 3 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $908k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
Wetsembekile Ministries has grown faster than three-quarters of the 4,527 international nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,527 international nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like Wetsembekile 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 Colorado
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
95% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Wetsembekile Ministries (Swaziland) · exempt
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Wetsembekile 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 Wetsembekile Ministries?
- Wetsembekile Ministries (Colorado) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $941,428 to it, the largest being THRIVENT CHARITABLE IMPACT & INVESTING ($508,500). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 96% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Wetsembekile Ministries have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $941,428 in grants to Wetsembekile Ministries, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Wetsembekile Ministries?
- THRIVENT CHARITABLE IMPACT & INVESTING is the largest funder on record, with $508,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Wetsembekile Ministries find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Colorado. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 10 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