Minnesota · Nonprofit
CHURCH INNOVATIONS INSTITUTE
CHURCH INNOVATIONS INSTITUTE (Minnesota) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $16,000 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($11,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $62k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $16k
- Net assets
- $-73178
What Church Innovations Institute does
Mission
Church Innovations Institute is devoted to renewing the church's focus on god's mission in the world. We provide research and consulting tools, products and processes that increase church's capacities to experience god's renewal and transformation.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Church Innovations Institute's flagship consulting service, partnership for missional church (pmc), is an intensive three to five year journey of spiritual discernment that empowers churches worldwide to respond to god's mission. Pmc takes local congregations on a journey of discovering god's specific call to them for moving beyond doing mission to being missional in attitude, vision and action.
$40,673 spent50% of program spendingAdditional consulting services include: workshops and learning events focusing on six missional practices, the key steps in moving from doing missions to being missional; we are here now, a year long vision and mission process; and staff covenanting, a guided discernment process in which staff explore, affirm, and leverage individual and corporate gifts to be in alignment with the missional vocation of their church and church body.
$20,337 spent25% of program spendingSeveral staff members provide keynote addresses and workshops on topics related to innovating missional church. Church Innovations Institute regularly sponsors conferences to engage leaders from around the world who are seeking to be missional in exploring practical solutions to common challenges and opportunities.
$20,337 spent25% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $81,347.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2019 to 2020, from $242k to $72k (−70%).
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 16% · 2021 14%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
54% of CHURCH INNOVATIONS INSTITUTE’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue 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. 5 of the last 6 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.
Board chair
Right Rev Mark Macdonald
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
2 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 CHURCH INNOVATIONS INSTITUTE’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
CHURCH INNOVATIONS INSTITUTE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 69% 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
100% 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 CHURCH INNOVATIONS INSTITUTE.
“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 CHURCH INNOVATIONS INSTITUTE'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $16k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
CHURCH INNOVATIONS INSTITUTE's revenue fell 64% between 2019 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,142 religion nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like CHURCH INNOVATIONS INSTITUTE
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 Minnesota
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.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CHURCH INNOVATIONS INSTITUTE: 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 CHURCH INNOVATIONS INSTITUTE?
- CHURCH INNOVATIONS INSTITUTE (Minnesota) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $16,000 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($11,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does CHURCH INNOVATIONS INSTITUTE have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $16,000 in grants to CHURCH INNOVATIONS INSTITUTE.
- Who is the largest funder of CHURCH INNOVATIONS INSTITUTE?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $11,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHURCH INNOVATIONS INSTITUTE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2019–2024), and the filings of 2 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