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CITY MISSION OF THE EVANGELICAL CHURCHES OF ERIE
CITY MISSION OF THE EVANGELICAL CHURCHES OF ERIE (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 32 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,393,212 to it, the largest being ERIE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($4,111,464). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 87% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $6.7M
- Funders on record
- 32
- Grants received
- $5.4M
- Net assets
- $10M
What City Mission of the Evangelical Churches of Erie does
Mission
To honor the statement of faith as noted in the mission's by laws, to restore hope and transform lives through services for the homeless, hungry, those struggling with addictions, and those in poverty
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Intervention services are at the core of the Mission's purpose and primarily involve providing food for the hungry, shelter for homeless men, and long-term recovery programs (from drug & alcohol addictions) to both men and women. The Mission has high utilization for each program: Food - 136,000+ meals served at Public Breakfast and Lunch and significant food distribution through dining pantry services; our 56-bed Samaritan Care men's shelter serving 567 different men this year; and 24 women served at the Grace House location. Our residential, recovery programs provide opportunity for life transformation and address critical issues that are part of our national opioid and addictions epidemic, of which Erie, PA is no exception. The Mission assisted in moving 170 individuals into independent housing and 103 individuals as being gainfully employed.
$2,439,140 spent$41,035 earned by the program59% of program spendingSocial Enterprise services include two Thrifty Shopper thrift stores and a large Donation Center. Donated clothing and household items are received, sorted and delivered to our two thrift stores by our Donation Center as well as a linen baling operation that sells poor condition linens to third-party vendors. Both thrift stores average approximately $52,000 gross sales/month each. The entire Social Enterprise operation provides a combined Contribution Margin of 35%+ surplus funds which support the other programs of the Erie City Mission
$1,399,056 spent$1,358,347 earned by the program34% of program spendingPrevention services of the Mission consist of its youth outreach programs. This includes Urban University, an afterschool program for approximately 238 inner-city, at-risk youth during the school year and week-long workshops during the summer. The goal is to develop and equip emerging student leaders through hands-on, career focused courses, intentional mentorship and practical faith application.
$242,017 spent$82,544 earned by the program6% of program spendingAftercare programs
$81,344 spent$42,892 earned by the program2% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,161,557.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2024 to 2025, from $9.3M to $11M (+17%).
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 15% · 2021 13% · 2022 14% · 2023 10% · 2024 6% · 2025 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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
Malcolm Beall
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 16 funders, grant income rose $219k → $546k.
11 of 32 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 87% 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 MISSION OF THE EVANGELICAL CHURCHES OF ERIE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 32 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
CITY MISSION OF THE EVANGELICAL CHURCHES OF ERIE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 76% of grant income and the top three 83%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
87% 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 MISSION OF THE EVANGELICAL CHURCHES OF ERIE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 64% · 2018 75% · 2019 81% · 2020 68% · 2021 62% · 2022 65% · 2023 62% — broadly stable.
“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
81% of CITY MISSION OF THE EVANGELICAL CHURCHES OF ERIE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 69% 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
87% of CITY MISSION OF THE EVANGELICAL CHURCHES OF ERIE'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 $699k that is directly attributable, 81% of it comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.7M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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.
Organizations like CITY MISSION OF THE EVANGELICAL CHURCHES OF ERIE
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 Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CITY MISSION OF THE EVANGELICAL CHURCHES OF ERIE?
- CITY MISSION OF THE EVANGELICAL CHURCHES OF ERIE (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 32 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,393,212 to it, the largest being ERIE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($4,111,464). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 87% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does CITY MISSION OF THE EVANGELICAL CHURCHES OF ERIE have?
- IRS filings report 32 organizations giving $5,393,212 in grants to CITY MISSION OF THE EVANGELICAL CHURCHES OF ERIE, 22 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CITY MISSION OF THE EVANGELICAL CHURCHES OF ERIE?
- ERIE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $4,111,464 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CITY MISSION OF THE EVANGELICAL CHURCHES OF ERIE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 32 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