Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
Erie United Methodist Alliance
Erie United Methodist Alliance (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,288,737 to it, the largest being ERIE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($1,054,998). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 95% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.6M
- Funders on record
- 14
- Grants received
- $1.3M
- Net assets
- $1.8M
What Erie United Methodist Alliance does
Mission
EUMA ends homelessness by making it rare, brief and one-time, as Jesus would.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
EUMA's Rapid Re-Housing program called My Way Home provides eligible neighbors experiencing a housing crisis FIND affordable housing, temporarily PAY for their housing and wraps them with the services needed to help them STAY permanently housed. EUMA permanently housed 211 individuals in 123 households. 134 program participants were adults and 72 were children.
$785,824 spent35% of program spendingPermanent Housing - EUMA's Journey Home program works to keep youth aging out of foster care, out of the homeless system by providing independent and supporting-living apartments, direct and referral services that strengthen housing permanency. EUMA has 15 dedicated apartments split between supportive and independent living programs, the former to include building resident assistants who support youth tenants. EUMA's permanent affordable and supportive housing effort is committed to preserving and maintaining safe and affordable housing in Crawford and Erie Counties. EUMA pairs 16 units of traditional apartments with individuals who have experienced a housing crisis or who are at risk of experiencing a housing crists. All apartments are rented at below fair market value and have utilities included in the rent. EUMA has a "no eviction" commitment believing that eviction is a cause of homelessness, not a symptom. EUMA's goal is to have 0 exits into homelessness.
$399,352 spent$393,015 earned by the program18% of program spendingThe Refuge - EUMA welcomes homeless families with children to a 10 room, 36 bed emergency shelter. We welcome all families as they come to us and we remain committed to keeping Dads in the same room as their families. All residents are provided with case management to both help them access permanent housing and address their identified barriers that may prevent them from keeping their permanent housing. EUMA's The Refuge served 138 individuals during the year.
$335,367 spent15% of program spendingLiberty House/GDP Low Demand - A 10-bed transitional shelter program, Liberty House temporarily shelters Veteran men experiencing a housing crisis. Housing case managers in collaboration with the Erie VA Medical Center and other programs assist the client to develop a housing plan and other services that will help sustain their future permanent housing. EUMA's Liberty House accumulated 3,362 bed nights this fiscal year. Partners and volunteers provided budgeting, life-skills training and other case management services that lead to permanent housing. 68% of sheltered Veterans exited to permanent housing and 80% experienced a positive exit.
$323,359 spent15% of program spendingRainbow Connection Thrift Store - In addition to selling gently used clothing, shoes, household items, furniture and other items at below market rates to our neighbors in need, EUMA's Rainbow Connection Thrift Store operates an Erie County-wide voucher program used by 32 not-for-profit organizations including EUMA. We freely distributed gently used items to 2,016 individuals, including 1,157 adults and 859 children who used the voucher program. The value of items given out through the voucher program was $47,393 for the fiscal year ending June 2025. Additionally, EUMA's Rainbow Connection Thrift Store facilitates back-to-work and other employment training opportunities for worker's compensation recipients, seniors, at risk youth, rapid re-housing clients and others.
$212,585 spent$66,482 earned by the program10% of program spendingOur Neighbors Place (ONP) is Erie County's shelter of last resort. This low barrier shelter welcomes all adults 18 years of age and older and only bans guests if they are a threat to themselves or others. In partnership with local faith community volunteers, EUMA welcomed 337 unduplicated individuals during the 140 nights ONP was open. Guests accumualted 6,635 bed nights. Our oldest guest was 77 and our youngest was 18. 16 guests identified as Veterans. 23 guests were between the ages of 18-24 and 34 guests were 65 years of age or older. Nearly 44% of the nights ONP was open, we were at or above our 50 bed capacity.
$164,381 spent7% of program spending
The 6 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,220,868.
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 2021 to 2022, from $1.3M to $1.9M (+45%).
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: 2017 40% · 2018 38% · 2019 46% · 2020 46% · 2021 47% · 2022 55% · 2023 41% · 2024 33% · 2025 43%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
77% of Erie United Methodist Alliance’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 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
Kurt Crays
CEO
Board chair
Roberta Paul
Chairperson
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $71k → $345k.
5 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 95% 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 Erie United Methodist Alliance’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 13 of 14 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
Erie United Methodist Alliance leans on a few funders — its largest provides 82% of grant income and the top three 94%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
97% 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 Erie United Methodist Alliance.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 81% · 2018 64% · 2019 88% · 2020 76% · 2021 80% · 2022 74% · 2023 97% — growing more concentrated.
“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
50% of Erie United Methodist Alliance's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% 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
95% of Erie United Methodist Alliance'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 $59k that is directly attributable, 77% of it comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
Erie United Methodist Alliance's revenue grew 109% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,211 religion nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding Erie United Methodist Alliance receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.0M on record.
- Department of Veterans Affairs$2.0M
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like Erie United Methodist Alliance
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
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 23 related entities
- Lakewood United Methodist Church · exempt
- Glenwood United Methodist Church · exempt
- Christ United Methodist Church · exempt
- Girard United Methodist Church · exempt
- Asbury United Methodist Church · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Erie United Methodist Alliance?
- Erie United Methodist Alliance (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,288,737 to it, the largest being ERIE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($1,054,998). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 95% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Erie United Methodist Alliance have?
- IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $1,288,737 in grants to Erie United Methodist Alliance, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Erie United Methodist Alliance?
- ERIE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,054,998 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Erie United Methodist Alliance 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 14 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