Washington · Nonprofit
CITY MINISTRIES
CITY MINISTRIES (Washington) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $345,528 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($251,451). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 98% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.5M
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $346k
- Net assets
- $6.0M
What City Ministries does
Mission
To promote and foster the physical, social, economic, emotional and educational needs of the community with a focus on those in need.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The city kids school was created to equip the next generation with the building blocks necessary to build their future. We are intentional about preparing children to be lifelong learners. Our emphasis in learning focuses on five main areas: social, mental, physical, spiritual and emotional. These important aspects of a child's development are met in a structured, safe environment, highlighted by teachers who sincerely love their students. The school offers classes for age 2 through kindergarten and has 88 students.
$774,124 spent$613,898 earned by the program43% of program spendingThe rose hill cottages & aaron haskins community center were built to provide affordable housing for families that do foster-care and are licensed through City Ministries child-placement agency. Monthly children's activities are provided through the community center as well as foster parent support groups, foster parent training, and private use of cottage residents.
$675,296 spent$700,406 earned by the program38% of program spendingCity Ministries' child placement agency provides safe, stable, and nurturing homes for children in foster care, with a strong focus on permanency and family restoration. Over the past 15+ years, more than 120 children have been successfully reunified with their birth or extended families, while others have transitioned into permanent adoptive homes. The agency maintains strong foster parent retention, with families serving an average of seven years, along with minimal placement disruptions and consistent staff retention that strengthens continuity of care. Serving king, pierce, and snohomish counties, the agency partners closely with dcyf to recruit, train, and support foster families, delivering trauma-informed care and individualized case management that produces lasting, life-changing results.
$346,109 spent$36,893 earned by the program19% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,795,529.
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 $5.9M to $6.9M (+18%).
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: 2021 14% · 2022 13% · 2023 0% · 2024 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
8% of CITY MINISTRIES’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 8 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
Cheryl Haskins
Executive director
Board chair
Lyman Legters
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 4 funders, grant income fell $120k → $68k.
4 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 98% 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 CITY MINISTRIES’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
CITY MINISTRIES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 73% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
98% 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 CITY MINISTRIES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 92% · 2021 90% · 2022 100% · 2023 74% — 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.
Where its funders are
98% of CITY MINISTRIES'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. Of the $6k that is directly attributable, 84% of it comes from funders outside Washington, across 3 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $339k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
CITY MINISTRIES is better cushioned than half of the 6,891 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,891 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like CITY MINISTRIES
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 Washington
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
80% 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
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- City Ministries Child Placement Agency LLC · disregarded
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CITY MINISTRIES: 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 CITY MINISTRIES?
- CITY MINISTRIES (Washington) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $345,528 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($251,451). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 98% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does CITY MINISTRIES have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $345,528 in grants to CITY MINISTRIES, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CITY MINISTRIES?
- AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $251,451 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CITY MINISTRIES find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. 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 7 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