Minnesota · Nonprofit
Heart of the City Ministries
Heart of the City Ministries (Minnesota) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $191,039 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($132,129). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 90% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $261k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $191k
- Net assets
- $80k
What Heart of the City Ministries does
Mission
To bring a message, model and experience of multi-ethnic worship and Biblical unity to Christians,and the Gospel to those who are not Christians yet. Since 2018, the mission continues through hosting stylisticly and ethnically diverse concerts in MN
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Music Factory hosted 27 concerts in 2025 and attendance was 1625 people. We consistently receive feedback about how much attendees have been spiritually impacted by the artists. A great deal of inter-racial goodwill has been felt and expressed when weve had racially diverse artists and performers.
$152,033 spentof which $40,000 as grants$108,966 earned by the program85% of program spendingThe A New Kind of Warrior CD was in 2024 and 2025 and was released in November of 2025. With this being a project that is primarily being given away to Native Americans, we have heard great feedback from those who have received it regarding the hopeful message it contains. Only a handful of them are sold online and in person. This album and our We Speak Life album are both made to be given away to mostly Native Americans as an outreach tool. We also recently had a Native American radio station in Winnepeg, Canada do a live interview with Dan Adler and play several of our songs from the New Kind of Warrior Album That interview was replayed 2 more times after that. Station also requested for 20 CDs to giveaway on-air
$23,581 spent$3,185 earned by the program13% of program spendingHeart of the City Band: This band is an intentionally mult-ethnic and multi-denominational band with its members representing 11 different ethnicities. The band performs in various settings throughout the year including Reservations, churches,prisons and other performance settings. Since the founding of Heart of the City Ministries, the Heart of the City Band has been bringing a message, model and experience of multi-ethnic worship music and Biblical unity to Christians and a relevant multi-ethnic presentation of the Christian Gospel to unbelievers in many different settings. We have partnered with other organizations that do give out food and goods to the homeless and poor.
$3,800 spent$50 earned by the program2% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $179,414.
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 $44k to $112k (+153%).
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 4% · 2022 3% · 2023 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
57% of Heart of the City Ministries’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 3 funders, grant income rose $11k → $23k.
4 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 90% 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 Heart of the City Ministries’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 5 of 6 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
Heart of the City Ministries leans on a few funders — its largest provides 69% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
90% 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 Heart of the City Ministries.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 99% · 2018 99% · 2019 100% · 2020 99% · 2021 99% · 2022 59% · 2023 77% — 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.
Where its funders are
90% of Heart of the City Ministries'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 $20k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Minnesota funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $171k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
Heart of the City Ministries runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 7,334 religion nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,334 religion nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Heart of the City Ministries
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
73% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 Heart of the City Ministries: 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 Heart of the City Ministries?
- Heart of the City Ministries (Minnesota) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $191,039 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($132,129). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 90% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Heart of the City Ministries have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $191,039 in grants to Heart of the City Ministries, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Heart of the City Ministries?
- NETWORK FOR GOOD is the largest funder on record, with $132,129 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Heart of the City Ministries 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 6 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