Minnesota · Nonprofit
CROSS (CHRISTIANS REACHING OUT IN SOCIAL SERVICES)
CROSS (CHRISTIANS REACHING OUT IN SOCIAL SERVICES) (Minnesota) receives grants from 61 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,856,132 to it, the largest being MIGHTYCAUSE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($614,270). 43 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $7.2M
- Funders on record
- 61
- Grants received
- $2.9M
- Net assets
- $1.4M
What Cross (Christians Reaching Out in Social Services) does
Mission
The organization provides direct assistance and support services to residents of champlin, corcoran, dayton, maple grove, osseo and rogers, mn targeting households with low incomes and those faced with financial crisis.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Food insecurity: * cross food warehouse: the organization's grocery-store-style food warehouse allows clients to choose from a wide variety of healthy food that their families will actually eat. * mobile food pantries: the organization sends food out into the community at six locations, where families can get the food they need without having to travel to the warehouse. * cross services: in total, cross services provided over 1,931,615 pounds of food during 20,318 family visits annually. Housing instability: * peace of mind financial assistance: the organization provides funds for rent, mortgage, utilities, car repairs, and other pressing financial needs so that individuals and families can get caught up without losing their homes while they work toward financial stability. The organization provided assistance to 42 families. * cross' sweet repeats boutique: the organization's thrift shop provides clothing and household goods, including furniture, to families at very low or no cost. This allows families to put their budget dollars toward stable housing and other necessary areas. The organization distributes more than 63,500 pounds of donated goods annually.children's needs: *…
$7,016,220 spentof which $5,890,957 as grants$53,684 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $7,016,220.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 $1.9M to $2.6M (+32%).
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.
97% of CROSS (CHRISTIANS REACHING OUT IN SOCIAL SERVICES)’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (90% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 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
Chad Lanners
Executive director
Board chair
Jeff Wehling
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 31 funders, grant income rose $180k → $533k.
16 of 61 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 24% 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 CROSS (CHRISTIANS REACHING OUT IN SOCIAL SERVICES)’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 61 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
CROSS (CHRISTIANS REACHING OUT IN SOCIAL SERVICES) has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 22% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
82% 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 CROSS (CHRISTIANS REACHING OUT IN SOCIAL SERVICES).
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 73% · 2018 57% · 2019 28% · 2020 34% · 2021 27% · 2022 24% · 2023 21% — 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
58% of CROSS (CHRISTIANS REACHING OUT IN SOCIAL SERVICES)'s funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 70% 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
69% of CROSS (CHRISTIANS REACHING OUT IN SOCIAL SERVICES)'s grant income comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $675k arriving through sponsors registered in 14 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
CROSS (CHRISTIANS REACHING OUT IN SOCIAL SERVICES) has grown faster than half of the 1,211 religion nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,211 religion nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like CROSS (CHRISTIANS REACHING OUT IN SOCIAL SERVICES)
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
94% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CROSS (CHRISTIANS REACHING OUT IN SOCIAL SERVICES): 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 CROSS (CHRISTIANS REACHING OUT IN SOCIAL SERVICES)?
- CROSS (CHRISTIANS REACHING OUT IN SOCIAL SERVICES) (Minnesota) receives grants from 61 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,856,132 to it, the largest being MIGHTYCAUSE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($614,270). 43 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CROSS (CHRISTIANS REACHING OUT IN SOCIAL SERVICES) have?
- IRS filings report 61 organizations giving $2,856,132 in grants to CROSS (CHRISTIANS REACHING OUT IN SOCIAL SERVICES), 43 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CROSS (CHRISTIANS REACHING OUT IN SOCIAL SERVICES)?
- MIGHTYCAUSE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $614,270 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CROSS (CHRISTIANS REACHING OUT IN SOCIAL SERVICES) 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.
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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 2018–2025), and the filings of 61 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