Minnesota · Nonprofit
INSTITUTE FOR ECUMENICAL & CULTURAL RESEARCH
INSTITUTE FOR ECUMENICAL & CULTURAL RESEARCH (Minnesota) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $523,190 to it, the largest being THE MINNEAPOLIS FOUNDATION ($377,690). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
Against its field
INSTITUTE FOR ECUMENICAL & CULTURAL RESEARCH runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 71 social science nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 71 social science nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- United Way of Central Minnesotalocal
- The Fund for Theological Education Incportfolio match
- Votum Foundation Incportfolio match
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.
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.
82% of INSTITUTE FOR ECUMENICAL & CULTURAL RESEARCH’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $25k → $20k.
4 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 INSTITUTE FOR ECUMENICAL & CULTURAL RESEARCH’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
INSTITUTE FOR ECUMENICAL & CULTURAL RESEARCH leans on a few funders — its largest provides 72% 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
100% 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 INSTITUTE FOR ECUMENICAL & CULTURAL RESEARCH.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 71% · 2022 51% · 2023 50% — 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
100% of INSTITUTE FOR ECUMENICAL & CULTURAL RESEARCH'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $523k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 statesis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- United Way of Central MinnesotalocalMN · funds 52 organizations near you
- The Fund for Theological Education Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Votum Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Turicchi Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Porticus North America Foundation F/K/A the Humanitas Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Calvin Universityportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Interfaith Americaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Koch Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Alliss Educational Foundation-Equityportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Wabash Collegeportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Boisi Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Ortner Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like INSTITUTE FOR ECUMENICAL & CULTURAL RESEARCH
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
61% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Order of St Benedict · exempt
- Sisters of the Order of St Benedict · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for INSTITUTE FOR ECUMENICAL & CULTURAL RESEARCH: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR ECUMENICAL & CULTURAL RESEARCH?
- INSTITUTE FOR ECUMENICAL & CULTURAL RESEARCH (Minnesota) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $523,190 to it, the largest being THE MINNEAPOLIS FOUNDATION ($377,690). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does INSTITUTE FOR ECUMENICAL & CULTURAL RESEARCH have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $523,190 in grants to INSTITUTE FOR ECUMENICAL & CULTURAL RESEARCH, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of INSTITUTE FOR ECUMENICAL & CULTURAL RESEARCH?
- THE MINNEAPOLIS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $377,690 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like INSTITUTE FOR ECUMENICAL & CULTURAL RESEARCH 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 4funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing