Ohio · Nonprofit
FUTURECHURCH
FUTURECHURCH (Ohio) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $235,221 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($59,070). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.3M
- Funders on record
- 15
- Grants received
- $235k
- Net assets
- $1.2M
What Futurechurch does
Mission
Futurechurch seeks changes that will provide all roman catholics the opportunity to participate fully in church life and leadership
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Women in church leadership: annual celebrations which honor women both well known and little known in church history are held throughout the world. Literature and other educational activites that educate about jesus' inclusive practice are also published. Conferences and media coverage of the mission of Futurechurch are also promoted. An international initiative to advocate for the restoration of the female deaconate in the roman catholic church is also underway. Catholic women preach: weekly videos and texts of preaching from catholic women are coordinated, edited, published and maintained on program website www.catholicwomenpreach.org.
$125,555 spent40% of program spendingFuture of priestly ministry: educates about the priest shortage and advocates for optional celibacy in the roman catholic church. In 2012 implemented an online "open letter from the people of god to u.s. Bishops" asking for open discussion of mandatory celibacy and women deacons. Electronic postcards about both of these issues were translated into five other languages and made available on the organization's website.
$94,166 spent30% of program spendingSave our parish community: provides canonical appeal and prayer resources to catholics deciding what to do when their vibrant and solvent parish is slated for closure for no apparent reason. In 2012 parishoners from a total of 13 churches - allentown (9). Springfield (3) and buffalo (1) were for the first time successful in ther appeals to the vatican. Parishoners in all three dioceses had utilized the organization's resources.
$47,083 spent15% of program spendingJustice in the church: Futurechurch promotes the rights and responsibilities of all the baptized in the roman catholic church. We work for just treatment for all church workers, educators, theologians, ministers and all those who dedicate so much of their lives to making the gospel a reality in our world.
$47,083 spent15% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $313,887.
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 2020 to 2021, from $506k to $779k (+54%).
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 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
26% of FUTURECHURCH’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (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.
Board chair
Vickey Mcbride
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 4 funders, grant income fell $30k → $12k.
5 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 53% 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 FUTURECHURCH’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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
FUTURECHURCH has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
53% 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 FUTURECHURCH.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 95% · 2018 89% · 2019 82% · 2020 69% · 2021 80% · 2022 34% · 2023 43% — 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
43% of FUTURECHURCH's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% 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
53% of FUTURECHURCH'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 $110k that is directly attributable, 97% of it comes from funders outside Ohio, across 8 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $126k 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
FUTURECHURCH runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters 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 FUTURECHURCH
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 Ohio
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
95%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FUTURECHURCH: 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 FUTURECHURCH?
- FUTURECHURCH (Ohio) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $235,221 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($59,070). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does FUTURECHURCH have?
- IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $235,221 in grants to FUTURECHURCH, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FUTURECHURCH?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $59,070 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FUTURECHURCH find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. 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 15 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