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SONS OF THUNDER MINISTRIES & PUBLICATIONS INC

EIN 20-2687181 MARYLHURST, OR

Largest nonprofits in Oregon

Revenue 2024
$453,285
Expenses 2024
$359,961

Program services were 100.0% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
X20
Classification
7200
Street
PO BOX 40

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

We are a Christian ministry, missions and resource provider for spiritual teachings. We host conference events, provide spiritual formation seminars and also host evangelism efforts and charitable outreaches to the poor. This includes the construction and support of children's homes for orphans and other humanitarian relief in developing nations.

Activities or mission (Part I)

We are a Christian ministry, missions and resource provider for spiritual teachings. We host conference events, provide spiritual formation seminars and also host evangelism efforts and charitable outreaches to the poor. This includes the construction and support of children's homes for orphans and other humanity relief programs in developing nations.

  • Christianity Programs: Sons of Thunder hosted conferences and teaching seminars at various locations in 2023 for the benefit of spiritual development. Expenses in this category of service accomplishment reflect costs for airline and ground transportation, hotels and other travel expenses associated with itinerant ministry, along with various conference expenses such as facility and sound equipment rental. We also host seminars on online formats. SOT continued development on our seminary program. In addition, we offer generous grants to like-minded nonprofit Christian groups engaged in similar ministry goals, which are included in this category.

    Expenses $243,399

  • Mission Outreaches: Sons of Thunder provides numerous outreach programs to developing regions to some of the poorest areas of the world, ministering in impoverished areas and slums with spiritual gatherings and outreach work. This category of service includes relief funds raised for refugees, ministry to the poor and sacerdotal work. Expenses may include flights, ground transportation, accommodations and diverse costs associated with team endeavors.

    Expenses $19,365

  • International Child Sponsorship Program: We operate a children's home we constructed for orphans near Mumbai, India, and this service accomplishment reflects the regular monthly support we provide for food, education, a schoolbus and living expenses. Funds in this category are independently managed by children's home parents Ranjana and Nisar Immanuel, with detailed oversight, reporting and accountability to us at Sons of Thunder. In addition, we also operate and support a children's home in the Philippines near Manila, enabling us to rescue more abandoned children from the streets.

    Expenses $36,450

  • Christian Education/Teaching Materials: We invest considerable resources, time and energy to our media and publishing ventures for the distribution of teaching resources. This includes the writing, editing, production and distribution of Christian inspiration materials from John Crowder and fellow ministries endorsed by Sons of Thunder. As part of this service accomplish, we provide teaching videos, magazines and articles free of charge to the public.

    Expenses $60,747

As filed on the 2024 return.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • John Crowder

    President

    Total calculated
    $60,000
    From this org
    $60,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    45

  • Brandon Tripp

    Independent Contractor

    Total calculated
    $13,500
    From this org
    $13,500
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    15

  • Lily Crowder

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Chad Davis

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $453,285
    Expenses
    $359,961
    Contributions
    $368,340
    Grants paid
    $49,540
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $517,834
    Expenses
    $370,667
    Contributions
    $460,147
    Grants paid
    $36,180
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $488,452
    Expenses
    $483,948
    Contributions
    $446,294
    Grants paid
    $41,089

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $880,132
    Expenses
    $460,275
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,169,455

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $637,476
    Expenses
    $389,591
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,655,335

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $764,009
    Expenses
    $518,871
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,407,450

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $524,128
    Expenses
    $427,788
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,162,312

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $812,596
    Expenses
    $579,234
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,065,972

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $653,639
    Expenses
    $567,259
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,832,610

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,113,610
    Expenses
    $546,829
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,746,230

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $777,943
    Expenses
    $594,133
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,179,449

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $809,664
    Expenses
    $568,709
    Assets (EOY)
    $995,639

  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $501,517
    Assets (EOY)
    $754,684

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.