California · Nonprofit
CITYTEAM MINISTRIES
CITYTEAM MINISTRIES (California) receives grants from 257 organizations whose IRS filings report $37,138,777 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($7,529,998). 156 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 66% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $39M
- Funders on record
- 257
- Grants received
- $37M
- Net assets
- $75M
What Cityteam Ministries does
Mission
Restoring lives and rebuilding communities through innovative programs which provide food, shelter, clothing, training, and spiritual transformation.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Community outreach (cityteam in the neighborhood) - in response to continually growing needs in our community, we continued to expand our neighborhood outreach to help families make ends meet. Cityteam operated mobile food pantries for at-risk households at 63 locations in california in the counties of santa clara, alameda, san mateo, and san francisco. This enabled cityteam to distribute approximately 4,000,000 pounds of food in the bay area. In chester pennsylvania, with 8 pantry locations, we distributed approximately 675,000 pounds of food. Cityteam's popup clothing closet program regularly distributed much needed clothing at pantry locations served. Across cityteam locations we provided regular groceries, clothing, hygiene products, and household goods to low-income households. We also provided additional resources during seasonal events such as christmas toys during the christmas holidays and backpacks filled with school supplies for back to school. By addressing these needs on a regularly scheduled basis we provided help and hope to men, women, and children in ourcommunity.
$15,871,724 spentof which $13,454,926 as grants$1,056 earned by the program54% of program spendingHousing & restorative programs (cityteam renew & cityteam connect) - cityteam provides vital programs to people struggling with homelessness, poverty and addiction. Our homeless resources and longer term residential programs provide hot meals, safe shelter, showers, clean clothing, counseling, spiritual mentorship, education, career counseling, and life transformation. Throughout cityteam locations, men, women, and children at risk found safe shelter with us, totaling over 93,000 shelter nights across sites and cityteam served approximately 675,000 meals across our kitchens. With programs in san jose, san francisco, and oakland, as well as portland, oregon and chester, pennsylvania, cityteam helps care for immediate needs and enables lasting solutions.
$7,901,390 spentof which $3,953,610 as grants$455,214 earned by the program27% of program spendingTransitional housing (cityteam turning point) - to address the growing issue of homelessness, cityteam's turning point program serves unsheltered single women, women with children, and single men - providing them with supportive transitional housing for 6-12 months while receiving counseling, case management, job support, and other services helping them to achieve self sufficiency and stability. Services include helping them to establish a permanent housing plan, assess a career path and pursue employment, create savings accounts, and participate in life skills classes such as parenting, budgeting, fitness and nutrition, etc. Cityteam turning point provided 40,000 nights of transitional housing and over 66,000 meals.
$1,625,795 spentof which $275,296 as grants$115,951 earned by the program6% of program spendingEconomic empowerment (cityteam @ work) - education, training, and certification programs to help men and women in our residential programs find living-wage jobs, affordable housing, and budget for financial sustainability. The level of education for each student varies widely, with some participants who never completed high school, while others hold college degrees. Each student has an individualized learning plan to master skills in writing, math, reading, comprehension, and computer literacy. Life skills are an important element of the learning and career center, which ensure students know how to make and keep a budget, write a resume, and interview for a job. We also provide business clothes for interviews.bridge housing (cityteam forward) - affordable living to help graduates move forward as active members of the community and create a strong foundation for bringing families back together.youth housing (cityteam youth collective) - residential supportive housing program helping to prevent homelessness by providing a loving community for at-risk youth. Aproximately 2,400 nights of housing provided.Cityteam Ministries also offers family and youth camping, and other essential…
$4,120,487 spentof which $74,400 as grants$1,302,059 earned by the program14% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $29,519,396.
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 2018 to 2019, from $20M to $36M (+83%).
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 4% · 2024 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
91% of CITYTEAM MINISTRIES’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (84% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 63 funders to 109 funders, grant income rose $2.1M → $6.5M.
42 of 257 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 66% 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 CITYTEAM MINISTRIES’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 257 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
CITYTEAM MINISTRIES has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 20% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
72% 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 CITYTEAM MINISTRIES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 21% · 2018 18% · 2019 24% · 2020 21% · 2021 32% · 2022 19% · 2023 23% — 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
40% of CITYTEAM MINISTRIES'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
66% of CITYTEAM 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 $13M that is directly attributable, 72% of it comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $24M arriving through sponsors registered in 21 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
CITYTEAM MINISTRIES runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 127 religion nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 127 religion nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like CITYTEAM 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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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 28 states
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Charitable Remainder Trusts (2) · corp_trust
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CITYTEAM 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 CITYTEAM MINISTRIES?
- CITYTEAM MINISTRIES (California) receives grants from 257 organizations whose IRS filings report $37,138,777 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($7,529,998). 156 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 66% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does CITYTEAM MINISTRIES have?
- IRS filings report 257 organizations giving $37,138,777 in grants to CITYTEAM MINISTRIES, 156 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CITYTEAM MINISTRIES?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $7,529,998 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CITYTEAM MINISTRIES find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 257 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