South Dakota · Nonprofit
WINGS AS EAGLES MINISTRIES
WINGS AS EAGLES MINISTRIES (South Dakota) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $105,585 to it, the largest being FLORIS B HEMKER PRIVATE FOUNDATION ($85,581). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.2M
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $106k
- Net assets
- $1.2M
What Wings as Eagles Ministries does
Mission
Waem is a non-denominational evangelical ministry and relief organization. Working with the first nations people, bringing love and hope to our forgotten lands. The mission of waem is to extend the evangelistic calling by proclaiming the gospel of our lord jesus christ to all we can by every effective means available to us and by equipping other native brothers and sisters to do the same. To promote positive healthy environments and communities on the reservations to produce a productive lifestyle for the native people.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Distributed personal care items, food, clothing and basic necessities to over 15,000 native people on reservations in montana, wyoming and south dakota.
$1,099,286 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,099,286.
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 $1.9M to $2.4M (+26%).
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: 2020 0% · 2021 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
96% of WINGS AS EAGLES MINISTRIES’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $8k → $15k.
4 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 18% 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 WINGS AS EAGLES MINISTRIES’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 6 of 8 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
WINGS AS EAGLES MINISTRIES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 81% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2020 97% · 2021 99% · 2022 96% · 2023 99% — 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
WINGS AS EAGLES MINISTRIES draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside South Dakota, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $19k 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
WINGS AS EAGLES MINISTRIES holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 6,891 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,891 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like WINGS AS EAGLES 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 South Dakota
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
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 WINGS AS EAGLES 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 WINGS AS EAGLES MINISTRIES?
- WINGS AS EAGLES MINISTRIES (South Dakota) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $105,585 to it, the largest being FLORIS B HEMKER PRIVATE FOUNDATION ($85,581). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WINGS AS EAGLES MINISTRIES have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $105,585 in grants to WINGS AS EAGLES MINISTRIES, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WINGS AS EAGLES MINISTRIES?
- FLORIS B HEMKER PRIVATE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $85,581 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WINGS AS EAGLES MINISTRIES find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in South Dakota. 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 8 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