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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
0/2 repeat funders
01What it does

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

  1. 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 spent
    50% of program spending
  2. Additional 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 spent
    25% of program spending
  3. Several 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 spent
    25% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $81,347.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20192019 Revenue 100 ($172k) Expenses 100 ($229k) Net assets 100 ($70k)2020 Revenue 43 ($75k) Expenses 91 ($208k) Net assets -71 ($-49258)2021 Revenue 80 ($137k) Expenses 80 ($182k) Net assets -133 ($-92521)2022 Revenue 80 ($137k) Expenses 61 ($140k) Net assets -137 ($-95414)2023 Revenue 81 ($138k) Expenses 43 ($97k) Net assets -78 ($-54282)2024 Revenue 36 ($62k) Expenses 60 ($136k) Net assets -105 ($-73178)
201920202021202220232024
Revenue (36)Expenses (60)Net assets (-105)Peer revenue range

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%).

$242k
$72k
$15k
$23k
$56k
$30k
201920202021202220232024
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

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).

This organization
Typical peer · 14,623 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

−$57k
’19
−$133k
’20
−$45k
’21
−$3k
’22
$41k
’23
−$74k
’24
0.2
months of
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.

201920202021
Listed101010
Joined·+0+0
No longer listed·00
03Who funds it

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.

69%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

“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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

CHURCH INNOVATIONS INSTITUTE's revenue fell 64% between 2019 and 2024.

Operating margin−118% · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−18% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,142 religion nonprofits under $100k, FY2024

Organizations like CHURCH INNOVATIONS INSTITUTE

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05Profile & governance

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

MN

Screen this organization

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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