Minnesota · Nonprofit
GREATER MINNEAPOLIS COUNCIL OF CHURCHES
GREATER MINNEAPOLIS COUNCIL OF CHURCHES (Minnesota) receives grants from 46 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,080,721 to it, the largest being THE MINNEAPOLIS FOUNDATION ($834,488). 34 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 52% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.2M
- Funders on record
- 46
- Grants received
- $3.1M
- Net assets
- $2.2M
What Greater Minneapolis Council of Churches does
Mission
Gmcc is an interfaith, multicultural nonprofit organization with a mission "uniting people of faith, serving people in need." we have a 117 year old history collaborating with communites to addressinequities and disparities throughout minnesota through a variety of initiatives and services. Today, gmcc is an entrepreneurial organization that partners with communities most impacted by achallenge or opportunity to co-design and lead a response. We further justice with valuce-based youth, food and wellbeing programs
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Foodgmcc brings people together to close the gap on immediate food insecurity in minnesota while working toward long term, sustainable solutions to hunger. Minnesota foodshare is the long-standing brand (founded in 1982) of gmcc's food security and food justice work. The organization's annual minnesota foodshare march campaign engages thousands of people to raise food and funds for hundreds of food shelves across minnesota to help ensure that all minnesotans have access to healthy food and proper nutrition year-round. During the march campaign and throughout the year, minnesota foodshare raises and distributes funding to food shelves as well as other partners addressing hunger in minnesota communities. Minnesota foodshare also manages a pop-up food shelf out of the organization's facility on lake street, which provides prepared meals and grocery bags of nutritious food to those in need.
$407,766 spent$4,631 earned by the program22% of program spendingYouth:the youth deserve safe, nurturing spaces to grow and opportunities to learn and cultivate skills; find and build a caring, supportive community; and develop into 21st-century global citizens. The organization's neighborhood of phillips, minneapolis has a larger-than-average number of school-aged children and high poverty levels. This, combined with persistent educational disparities across minnesota, is why gmcc invests in youth development and education. Gmcc's out-of-school, year-round educational programming is called lakestreet youth labs (lyl) and provides underserved youth with steam-focused (science, technology, engineering, arts, math) curricula; homework help; and wraparound services including meals and groceries. Lyl's goals are to decrease educational disparities; increase skills in independent living, decision-making, and conflict resolution; improve family relationships; and provide opportunities for intercultural learning. The organization's curriculum is designed and delivered by experienced teachers, social workers, youth experts, and community partners and helps youth develop knowledge in a variety of academic topics and skills in communication,…
$540,770 spent29% of program spendingWellbeing:clinical care accounts for only 20% of health outcomes; 80% are affected by the social determinants of health such as employment and economic stability; education; social and community connections; neighborhood and physical environment; and access to healthy food and physical activity. Gmcc focuses on these social determinants to maximize the impact on the health and well-being of our community members.the organization's weekly drop-in services provide neighbors living in poverty and experiencinghomelessness with various services including access to hot showers, hygiene supplies, and clean clothing; food bags and prepared meals; individualized case management; digital access; and respite from the outdoors.the organization's recovery care program was designed due to repeat concerns brought bycommunity members. The program addresses substance use disorders and addiction in the east african community through community-based, culturally-specific, and trauma- informed recovery services. The organization's team of certified peer recovery coaches have lived experience and cultural backgrounds that match those of the clients and conduct regular all recovery meetings and…
$940,781 spent50% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,889,317.
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 2020 to 2021, from $2.3M to $2.9M (+26%).
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: 2020 41% · 2021 0% · 2022 14% · 2023 23% · 2024 50%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of GREATER MINNEAPOLIS COUNCIL OF CHURCHES’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. 3 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
Adrienne Dorn
President/executive director
Board chair
Bruce Ensrud
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 13 funders, grant income rose $150k → $334k.
12 of 46 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 52% 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 GREATER MINNEAPOLIS COUNCIL OF CHURCHES’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 46 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
GREATER MINNEAPOLIS COUNCIL OF CHURCHES has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 27% 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
73% 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 GREATER MINNEAPOLIS COUNCIL OF CHURCHES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 35% · 2018 32% · 2019 35% · 2020 63% · 2021 28% · 2022 11% · 2023 25% — 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
47% of GREATER MINNEAPOLIS COUNCIL OF CHURCHES's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 74% 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
52% of GREATER MINNEAPOLIS COUNCIL OF CHURCHES'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 $1.5M that is directly attributable, 76% of it comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.6M 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
GREATER MINNEAPOLIS COUNCIL OF CHURCHES holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 2,399 religion nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,399 religion nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding GREATER MINNEAPOLIS COUNCIL OF CHURCHES receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $363k on record.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$363k
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 GREATER MINNEAPOLIS COUNCIL OF CHURCHES
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
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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 GREATER MINNEAPOLIS COUNCIL OF CHURCHES: 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 GREATER MINNEAPOLIS COUNCIL OF CHURCHES?
- GREATER MINNEAPOLIS COUNCIL OF CHURCHES (Minnesota) receives grants from 46 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,080,721 to it, the largest being THE MINNEAPOLIS FOUNDATION ($834,488). 34 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 52% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does GREATER MINNEAPOLIS COUNCIL OF CHURCHES have?
- IRS filings report 46 organizations giving $3,080,721 in grants to GREATER MINNEAPOLIS COUNCIL OF CHURCHES, 34 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GREATER MINNEAPOLIS COUNCIL OF CHURCHES?
- THE MINNEAPOLIS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $834,488 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GREATER MINNEAPOLIS COUNCIL OF CHURCHES 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 46 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