Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
CENTER FOR URBAN BIBLICAL MINISTRY
CENTER FOR URBAN BIBLICAL MINISTRY (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $55,690 to it, the largest being JOHN R MCCUNE DEC'D CHARITABLE ($50,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $122k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $56k
- Net assets
- $47k
What Center for Urban Biblical Ministry does
Mission
Our mission statement the mission of the Center for Urban Biblical Ministry (cubm) is to glorify god by educating urban students in southwestern pennsylvania for effective service in their local communities. Cubm provides accredited bible-based degree programs granted by geneva college and other learning experiences in a christian community where deep relationships with others of diverse backgrounds are encouraged, equipping students to further the kingdom of christ and transform society for the glory of god. Our statement of faith we believe the bible is the inspired, only infallible, authoritative word of god there is one god, eternally existent in three person, father, son and holy spirit in the deity of jesus christ, his virgin birth, sinless life, atoning death, resurrection, ascension to the right hand of the father and future return in power and glory for salvation of the lost and sinful, regeneration by the holy spirit is absolutely essential in the present ministry of the holy
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Courses are offered in collaboration with geneva college to equip students for christian ministry, business and community services.
$103,418 spent100% of program spendingThe urban leadership initiative (uli) program provides students with the fullest possible exposure to the urban communities in which they minister, serve, and live. Ulis programs seminars, conferences, workshops, and forums are designed to encourage and equip students for participation in a variety of interdisciplinary and interdenominational christian ministries, faith-based agencies, community organizations, government agencies, and businesses. Uli uses collaborations, internships, and mentoring relationships to expand the students education outside of the classroom. Many of ulis programs are available to leaders who are not students at cubm but are involved in urban leadership positions. Urban heroes: pittsburgh urban heroes project started in 2010 to recognize and honor western pennsylvania residents who serve their communities with distinction and model servant leadership. These individuals help others, making their communities better and more meaningful every day with little or no recognition. A grant from the multicultural arts initiative helped us launch the project: urban heroes: stories of ordinary pittsburgh residents who do extraordinary things. Every two years we tell…
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $103,418.
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 $9k to $46k (+393%).
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.
52% of CENTER FOR URBAN BIBLICAL MINISTRY’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (57% 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
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $5 → $35.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 CENTER FOR URBAN BIBLICAL MINISTRY’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
CENTER FOR URBAN BIBLICAL MINISTRY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 90% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 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 CENTER FOR URBAN BIBLICAL MINISTRY's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $50 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
CENTER FOR URBAN BIBLICAL MINISTRY's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like CENTER FOR URBAN BIBLICAL MINISTRY
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 Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CENTER FOR URBAN BIBLICAL MINISTRY?
- CENTER FOR URBAN BIBLICAL MINISTRY (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $55,690 to it, the largest being JOHN R MCCUNE DEC'D CHARITABLE ($50,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CENTER FOR URBAN BIBLICAL MINISTRY have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $55,690 in grants to CENTER FOR URBAN BIBLICAL MINISTRY, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CENTER FOR URBAN BIBLICAL MINISTRY?
- JOHN R MCCUNE DEC'D CHARITABLE is the largest funder on record, with $50,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CENTER FOR URBAN BIBLICAL MINISTRY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing