North Carolina · Nonprofit
WILKES PRISON MINISTRY INC
WILKES PRISON MINISTRY INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $46,442 to it, the largest being United Way of Wilkes County Inc ($33,742). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $53k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $46k
- Net assets
- $58k
What Wilkes Prison Ministry Inc does
Mission
Providing a full-time chaplain for the prison and to assist all inmates at wilkes correctional center with their spiritual well being, also oversees the life reentry program which helps inmates who are within a year of being released.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Program
To assist any/all inmates at the wilkes correctional center with their spiritual well being. Also oversee the life re-entry program which helps inmates who are within a one year period of being released.
$57,735 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $57,735.
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 2020 to 2021, from $50k to $69k (+37%).
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.
96% of WILKES PRISON MINISTRY INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $9k → $500.
From the IRS filings of WILKES PRISON MINISTRY 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.
How concentrated its funding is
WILKES PRISON MINISTRY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 73% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
73% 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 WILKES PRISON MINISTRY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 89% · 2020 97% · 2021 56% · 2022 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
100% of WILKES PRISON MINISTRY INC's grant income comes from North Carolina funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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
WILKES PRISON MINISTRY INC has grown faster than half of the 10,158 religion nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,158 religion nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like WILKES PRISON MINISTRY 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 North Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
96%
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 WILKES PRISON MINISTRY 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 WILKES PRISON MINISTRY INC?
- WILKES PRISON MINISTRY INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $46,442 to it, the largest being United Way of Wilkes County Inc ($33,742). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WILKES PRISON MINISTRY INC have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $46,442 in grants to WILKES PRISON MINISTRY INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WILKES PRISON MINISTRY INC?
- United Way of Wilkes County Inc is the largest funder on record, with $33,742 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WILKES PRISON MINISTRY INC 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 3 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