Iowa · Nonprofit
MARRIAGE ENCOUNTER SUPPORT FOUNDATION
MARRIAGE ENCOUNTER SUPPORT FOUNDATION (Iowa) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $240,000 to it, the largest being NEW HOPE FOUNDATION ($240,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $299k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $240k
- Net assets
- $7.1M
What Marriage Encounter Support Foundation does
Mission
Mission: to support united marriage encounter (ume) with staff and services eliminating the need for administrative costs allowing more couples to attend ume weekends.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Our program services consist entirely of support for united marriage encounter (ume) and its program services for the benefit of the legally married, one-man, one-woman, marriage, and their families served by ume. This includes all our program services referred toin part iii. Our support includes providing staff, training, conferences, fundraising services, and payment for other needed services and expenses. Our support enables united marriage encounter to offer and present its marriage encounter weekend and short course for legallymarried, on-man, one-woman marriages, plus repeated follow-up support, meetings, small groups, information, websites, publications, and activities. Our support allows united marriage encounter to use all its income for program services. Our support helps united marriage encounter expand and strengthen its christian ministry to improve legally married, one-man, one-woman marriages, families, and the christian faith by supporting united marriage encounter exclusively with administrative support.
$289,287 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $289,287.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2021 to 2022, from $8.0M to $6.8M (−14%).
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.
10% of MARRIAGE ENCOUNTER SUPPORT FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 of the last 7 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
Steve Chapman
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income held at $30k.
From the IRS filings of MARRIAGE ENCOUNTER SUPPORT FOUNDATION’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.
Where its funders are
100% of MARRIAGE ENCOUNTER SUPPORT FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Iowa funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
MARRIAGE ENCOUNTER SUPPORT FOUNDATION is better cushioned than half of the 21,616 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,616 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like MARRIAGE ENCOUNTER SUPPORT FOUNDATION
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 Iowa
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
56% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- United Marriage Encounter · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MARRIAGE ENCOUNTER SUPPORT FOUNDATION: 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 MARRIAGE ENCOUNTER SUPPORT FOUNDATION?
- MARRIAGE ENCOUNTER SUPPORT FOUNDATION (Iowa) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $240,000 to it, the largest being NEW HOPE FOUNDATION ($240,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MARRIAGE ENCOUNTER SUPPORT FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $240,000 in grants to MARRIAGE ENCOUNTER SUPPORT FOUNDATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MARRIAGE ENCOUNTER SUPPORT FOUNDATION?
- NEW HOPE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $240,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MARRIAGE ENCOUNTER SUPPORT FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Iowa. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2018–2024), and the filings of 1 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