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.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.3M
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $523k
- Net assets
- $15M
What Institute for Ecumenical & Cultural Research does
Mission
The collegeville institute, rooted in christian tradition, brings together people of diverse backgrounds and perspectives to foster the world's healing through the power of religious ideas, insight, and practices.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The ecclesial literature project is committed to the promotion of the church's wisdom through the written word and endorses the role of religious literature and writing in the christian life. It provides direct support to pastors, academics, and others who aim to reach a broad reading audience through serious religious writing. In general, we intend to have an impact on the quality of the spiritual and intellectual life of diverse congregations through their leaders and members' participation in a writing program. In short, our intentions are to encourage the production of truly excellent literature in service to the church, as well as to support clergy, religious leaders, academics, and writers in their desires and efforts to become more effective communicators through writing.
$526,038 spent51% of program spendingThe collegeville institute welcomes scholars, clergy, church leaders, thinkers, artists, and writers from around the world seeking to discern and communicate the meaning of christian identity and unity in a religiously and culturally diverse world. Well-trained, creative, articulate women and men gather for one or two semesters for careful thought in a place of inquiry and prayer, engaging in independent study within a community setting.
$347,863 spent$19,517 earned by the program34% of program spendingCalled to lives of meaning and purpose initiative: in the coordination's seventh year, our team focused on providing educational opportunities for grantees and operational support for endowment program staff, overseeing the research project and supporting the creation of resources for grantees and their congregations. We are currently working with 13 organizations who are supporting approximately 250 congregations representing 36 states and three canadian provinces.
$157,754 spent15% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,031,655.
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 2017 to 2018, from $12M to $16M (+34%).
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
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
Susan Colianni
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.
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 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
INSTITUTE FOR ECUMENICAL & CULTURAL RESEARCH runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 84 social science nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 84 social science nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like INSTITUTE FOR ECUMENICAL & CULTURAL RESEARCH
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
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.
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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.
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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 4 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