Minnesota · Nonprofit
CHURCHES UNITED IN MINISTRY
CHURCHES UNITED IN MINISTRY (Minnesota) receives grants from 62 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,044,050 to it, the largest being DULUTH-SUPERIOR AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($557,474). 38 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $8.5M
- Funders on record
- 62
- Grants received
- $5.0M
- Net assets
- $2.8M
What Churches United in Ministry does
Mission
Churches United in Ministry (chum) is people of faith working together to provide basic necessities, foster stable lives and organize for a just and compassionate community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Stabilization services:services cater to single adults and families seeking relief from harsh weather conditions and support in surviving the trauma of homelessness. People can access bathrooms, showers, laundry, telephone, mail service, device charging stations, lockers, storage room, hygiene items, first aid, and survival supplies. The aim is to provide basic necessities for human dignity, medical care, sobriety counseling, mental health support, and help finding suitable housing. Service points include the emergency shelter program for families and individuals (serving approximately 1,000 people a year); homeless street outreach (serving 200 people a year); the chum drop-in center (2,000 people a year); and the chum clinic (300 people a year).
$4,505,109 spent$368,425 earned by the program59% of program spendingDistributive servicesstarting in 1981, chum's distributive services includes two food shelves, a mobile delivery service called chum-2-go which serves homebound seniors, families, and those with disabilities, and eight duluth area food deserts. In fy25, chum distributed over 528,000 pounds of food to 2,672 unduplicated households, benefiting over 4112 unique individuals.
$1,228,735 spentof which $1,034,257 as grants16% of program spendingHousing services:two locations are devoted to longer-term housing for individuals and families transitioning from homelessness. The steve o'neil apartments provides 44 units of permanent supportive housing for families with children who have experienced long-term or recurrent homelessness. Opened in late december 2014, this program offers intense professional staff services which includes youth development, and 4-star parent aware early childhood programming designed to support families rebuilding their lives. Programming is based on circle of security, participatory engagement, and follow housing first, harm reduction and trauma-informed philosophies and practices. The st. Francis apartments opened in 2021 and offers 39 permanent supportive housing units for elders with underlying health conditions to live and obtain supportive services. Support staff connect residents to services for food, transportation, assistance with household chores, public benefits, and mental health and recovery services. Chum's goal is to help residents successfully transition from shelter to housing, and then maintain their housing, stabilize their health and wellbeing, and not return to homelessness.
$1,325,931 spentof which $1,643,287 as grants17% of program spendingCongregational outreach:includes faith-based organizing and advocacy at the state and local level; expanding horizons, an immersion experience to expose participants to the issues of poverty and the opportunities for service and social justice work; and volunteer outreach and coordination for all of chum's programs (about 900 people volunteer each year, 600 regularly and 300 for special events).
$533,356 spent7% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $7,593,131.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $3.1M to $6.7M (+116%).
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 17% · 2018 20% · 2019 26% · 2020 26% · 2021 59% · 2022 33% · 2023 31% · 2024 38% · 2025 51%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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.
Chief executive
John Cole
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 12 funders to 24 funders, grant income rose $294k → $711k.
15 of 62 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 23% 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 IN MINISTRY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 62 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 IN MINISTRY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 11% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
64% 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 IN MINISTRY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 36% · 2018 19% · 2019 22% · 2020 18% · 2021 13% · 2022 20% · 2023 32% — 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
46% of CHURCHES UNITED IN MINISTRY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% 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
79% of CHURCHES UNITED IN MINISTRY's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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.
Government funding CHURCHES UNITED IN MINISTRY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $3.7M on record.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$3.7M
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 IN 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 Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
92% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CHURCHES UNITED IN MINISTRY: 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 IN MINISTRY?
- CHURCHES UNITED IN MINISTRY (Minnesota) receives grants from 62 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,044,050 to it, the largest being DULUTH-SUPERIOR AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($557,474). 38 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CHURCHES UNITED IN MINISTRY have?
- IRS filings report 62 organizations giving $5,044,050 in grants to CHURCHES UNITED IN MINISTRY, 38 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHURCHES UNITED IN MINISTRY?
- DULUTH-SUPERIOR AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $557,474 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHURCHES UNITED IN MINISTRY 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 62 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