North Carolina · Nonprofit
Mecklenburg Ministries
Mecklenburg Ministries (North Carolina) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $72,073 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF GREATER CHARLOTTE INC ($35,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $139k
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $72k
- Net assets
- $55k
What Mecklenburg Ministries does
Mission
Mecklenburg Metropolitan Interfaith Network MeckMIN promotes interfaith collaboration to foster understanding compassion and justice. We envision a community that lives by the highest values and core virtues of its rich faith traditions and respects the dignity of every person.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
The Interfaith Thanksgiving Service renamed Friendsgiving in FY 2024-25 as part of strategic repositioning is an annual community program that convenes clergy congregations and community members from diverse faith traditions for a shared service of gratitude reflection and music. During the reporting year 11 faith traditions were represented through readings prayers and musical contributions. Approximately 350 individuals attended. Youth participated through music event setup hospitality parking coordination and clean-up; a youth committee participated in planning and attendance. The program promotes religious literacy strengthens relationships across faith communities and provides a visible expression of unity and mutual respect among diverse faith traditions.
$5,028 spent27% of program spendingPotlucks for Pluralism is a community-based interfaith program designed to foster relationship-building and dialogue across diverse faith traditions through shared meals and facilitated conversation. The program draws students from four area universities: Johnson C. Smith University Davidson College Queens University of Charlotte and UNC Charlotte creating spaces where participants gather to share food personal experiences and perspectives in a spirit of mutual respect and learning. Each gathering includes a topic a presentation or speaker guided discussion designed to increase religious literacy reduce misunderstanding and encourage meaningful connections among participants from different backgrounds. Funded in part through a pass-through grant from the Arthur Vining Davis Foundation via Johnson C. Smith University.
$4,052 spent22% of program spendingFaith Leader Gatherings convene clergy and lay leaders from across faith traditions for shared meals peer support wellness training and educational programming featuring guest speakers. The program builds sustained interfaith relationships among working faith leaders increases religious literacy and strengthens the network of clergy collaboration in the Charlotte-Mecklenburg region. Programming during the reporting year included regular leader lunches a wellness resilience training and speakers on topics relevant to interfaith ministry and community engagement.
$3,986 spent21% of program spendingOther programs include the Youth Summit ongoing Youth Programs panel events service projects Interfaith Family Fun Day spring summit and Open Tables conversations. Combined expenses for these programs were approximately 5,636 during the reporting year. Youth programming is supported in part by Gemmer Family and Living Saviour grants.
$5,636 spent30% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $18,702.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
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 $34k to $63k (+88%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Rev LeDayne McLeese Polaski
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $108 → $12k.
3 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 37% 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 Mecklenburg Ministries’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
Mecklenburg Ministries leans on a few funders — its largest provides 49% of grant income and the top three 86%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
93% 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 Mecklenburg Ministries.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 97% · 2021 67% · 2022 47% · 2023 85% — 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
50% of Mecklenburg Ministries's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 60% 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
89% of Mecklenburg Ministries's grant income comes from North Carolina funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $27k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.
Organizations like Mecklenburg 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 North Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
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 Mecklenburg 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 Mecklenburg Ministries?
- Mecklenburg Ministries (North Carolina) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $72,073 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF GREATER CHARLOTTE INC ($35,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Mecklenburg Ministries have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $72,073 in grants to Mecklenburg Ministries, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Mecklenburg Ministries?
- UNITED WAY OF GREATER CHARLOTTE INC is the largest funder on record, with $35,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Mecklenburg Ministries find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 10 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