Minnesota · Nonprofit
CONGREGATIONS CARING FOR CREATION
CONGREGATIONS CARING FOR CREATION (Minnesota) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,484,495 to it, the largest being The McKnight Foundation ($1,205,000). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.2M
- Funders on record
- 29
- Grants received
- $3.5M
- Net assets
- $759k
What Congregations Caring for Creation does
Mission
Minnesota interfaith power & light works in partnership with faith communities to build transformative power and bring the lights of people's unique gifts to addressing the climate crisis.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Movement builders: engaged over 1200 individuals in climate advocacy and community building. Completed 250 1:1s and over 100 community meetings. Led two formal community learning cohorts and successfully completed the reparations learning lab series with over 150 participants. Stewarded the black and indigenous advisory table. Supported 40 formal communities of faith, conscience, religion, and spiritual practice in climate action. Trained over 100 people and 15 communities in grassroots advocacy, climate action, and community organizing.
$270,165 spent35% of program spendingPolicy & advocacy: engaged over 150 people in meetings with federal and state legislators. Mobilized 200 community leaders and a broader base of over 8,000 people across minnesota to engage with public decision makers around a climate justice agenda. Organized and co-hosted the rise & repair rally day with more than 250 attendees, many of whom had meetings with their legislators. Held regular core team meetings and leadership development opportunities.
$129,487 spent17% of program spendingRise + repair: engaged over 500 community members and 20 organizations in grassroots advocacy and policy making. Held 75 non-partisan constituent meetings about climate issues. Contributed to significant legislative movement towards climate solutions. Supported indigenous leadership, storytelling, and policy development.
$126,255 spent16% of program spendingDecarbonization: engaged over 300 individuals and over 50 community organizations in conversations about a transition to solar energy. Provided technical assistance and community support for over a dozen solar transition projects for community and faith organizations, including projects in low-income housing. Provided technical assistance and community support for 35 families seeking decarbonization projects. Hosted multiple public education events and trainings. Ran heat pump helpran a heat pump helper pilot program.
$109,959 spentof which $7,325 as grants14% of program spendingResilience hubs: launched statewide cohort with monthly learning sessions, meeting, and strategy sessions. Secured participation of core community partners and launched pilot program for future growth.
$37,132 spent5% of program spendingYouth n power: hosted 9 college interns and 6 apprentices to open the door to a new generation of climate leaders. Participated in multiple international coalitions and strategic alignments locally and globally. Young people participated in rallies and met with legislative leaders. Supported youth to lead the international organizing effort to pressure the united states to take action towards recognition and responsibility of the economic loss and damage caused by climate change.
$97,418 spent$127,553 earned by the program13% of program spending
The 6 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $770,416.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2021 to 2022, from $507k to $1.1M (+109%).
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: 2019 3% · 2020 4% · 2021 11% · 2022 1% · 2024 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
89% of CONGREGATIONS CARING FOR CREATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (90% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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.
Chief executive
Julia Nerbonne
Executive director
Board chair
Jim Jacobs
Board chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $13k → $620k.
14 of 29 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 48% 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 CONGREGATIONS CARING FOR CREATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 28 of 29 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
CONGREGATIONS CARING FOR CREATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 35% of grant income and the top three 64%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
65% 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 CONGREGATIONS CARING FOR CREATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 92% · 2018 48% · 2019 69% · 2020 50% · 2021 36% · 2022 35% · 2023 31% — 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
36% of CONGREGATIONS CARING FOR CREATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 48% 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 CONGREGATIONS CARING FOR CREATION's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.7M 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.
Against its field
CONGREGATIONS CARING FOR CREATION is better cushioned than half of the 2,399 religion nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,399 religion nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like CONGREGATIONS CARING FOR CREATION
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
65% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
74%
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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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CONGREGATIONS CARING FOR CREATION: 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 CONGREGATIONS CARING FOR CREATION?
- CONGREGATIONS CARING FOR CREATION (Minnesota) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,484,495 to it, the largest being The McKnight Foundation ($1,205,000). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CONGREGATIONS CARING FOR CREATION have?
- IRS filings report 29 organizations giving $3,484,495 in grants to CONGREGATIONS CARING FOR CREATION, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CONGREGATIONS CARING FOR CREATION?
- The McKnight Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $1,205,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CONGREGATIONS CARING FOR CREATION 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 FY2024 (financials across 2019–2024), and the filings of 29 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