Minnesota · Nonprofit
CHURCHES UNITED
CHURCHES UNITED (Minnesota) receives grants from 45 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,268,739 to it, the largest being Thrivent Financial for Lutherans ($1,457,167). 34 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $4.5M
- Funders on record
- 45
- Grants received
- $5.3M
- Net assets
- $4.5M
What Churches United does
Mission
Our mission is to provide safe shelter, stable housing, nutritious food, and a path toward healing.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Cu provides safe shelter, stable housing, nutritious food, and a path toward healing to our neighbors in need. All persons are welcome, regardless of faith or spiritual perspective, including those who embrace no faith tradition or practice. Churches United provides shelter, support services, community meals, and gatherings for people experiencing or at-risk of homelessness. We consist of two food pantries, three shelters, and one permanent supportive housing apartment complex. Our largest shelter, micah's mission, is the only shelter in our area that shelters men, women, and families. Our food pantry in moorhead is the largest consumer choice pantry in the area.
$2,330,139 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,330,139.
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 2022 to 2023, from $5.7M to $9.5M (+65%).
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: 2017 16% · 2018 19% · 2019 19% · 2020 29% · 2021 29% · 2022 26% · 2023 65% · 2024 37%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of CHURCHES UNITED’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (90% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 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 12 funders to 18 funders, grant income rose $535k → $957k.
17 of 45 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 24% 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 CHURCHES UNITED’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 45 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
CHURCHES UNITED has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 28% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
78% 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 CHURCHES UNITED.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 61% · 2018 49% · 2019 41% · 2020 31% · 2021 28% · 2022 24% · 2023 38% — diversifying over time.
“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.
How long its funders stay
56% of CHURCHES UNITED's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 76% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
68% of CHURCHES UNITED's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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
CHURCHES UNITED runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,399 religion nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,399 religion nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding CHURCHES UNITED receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $987k on record.
- Department of Veterans Affairs$987k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like CHURCHES UNITED
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.
Where the money goes
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 3 related entities
- Silver Linings Apartments LLC · disregarded
- Bright Sky Lllp · partnership
- Cufh Permanent Supportive Housing · corp_trust
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CHURCHES UNITED: 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 CHURCHES UNITED?
- CHURCHES UNITED (Minnesota) receives grants from 45 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,268,739 to it, the largest being Thrivent Financial for Lutherans ($1,457,167). 34 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CHURCHES UNITED have?
- IRS filings report 45 organizations giving $5,268,739 in grants to CHURCHES UNITED, 34 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHURCHES UNITED?
- Thrivent Financial for Lutherans is the largest funder on record, with $1,457,167 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHURCHES UNITED 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.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 45 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing