Tennessee · Nonprofit
MEMPHIS UNION MISSON
MEMPHIS UNION MISSON (Tennessee) receives grants from 53 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,776,803 to it, the largest being PLOUGH FOUNDATION ($1,000,000). 35 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $6.9M
- Funders on record
- 53
- Grants received
- $5.8M
- Net assets
- $30M
What Memphis Union Misson does
Mission
Memphis union mission exists to glorify god and make disciples of jesus christ by ministering to the physical, spiritual, and emotional needs of men and women who are homeless or destitute.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Men's mission - men's emergency shelter provides food, clothing, shelter, hygiene, biblical counseling and gospel services to transient, homeless men. 181 beds per night plus additional emergency mats available. Provided 94,650 nights of shelter and 266,817 meals this year. Totals include our christian based 30-day recovery program which helped 181 men this year.
$2,129,910 spent$325,332 earned by the program54% of program spendingCalvary colony provides a long term christian recovery program for men. Total of 49 beds available. Helped 158 men this year in residential facilities, with 13,953 bed nights and 41,859 meals.
$656,220 spent17% of program spendingMoriah house provides food, clothing, shelter, biblical counseling and recovery services for women in crisis and their children. Serves up to 15 women and 14 children at a time. There were 25 women and 15 children that were served this year. 4,510 bed nights and 13,530 meals were provided. Assisted 9 adults and 6 children to secure permanent housing.
$542,019 spent14% of program spendingExtended stay: overflow services to transient homeless men provided by an additional 106 beds plus emergency mats provided 14,328 bed nights and 42,984 meals. Assisted 8 individuals with securing permanent housing.
$628,023 spent16% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,956,172.
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 2021 to 2022, from $26M to $34M (+29%).
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 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
82% of MEMPHIS UNION MISSON’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (39% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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.
Chief executive
Donald Scott Bjork
President & CEO
Board chair
Don Taddia
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 13 funders to 23 funders, grant income fell $767k → $607k.
15 of 53 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 44% 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 MEMPHIS UNION MISSON’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 53 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
MEMPHIS UNION MISSON has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 17% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
62% 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 MEMPHIS UNION MISSON.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 65% · 2018 60% · 2019 31% · 2020 26% · 2021 59% · 2022 27% · 2023 32% — 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
60% of MEMPHIS UNION MISSON's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 66% 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
56% of MEMPHIS UNION MISSON's grant income comes from Tennessee funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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
MEMPHIS UNION MISSON runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 2,367 housing & shelter nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,367 housing & shelter nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like MEMPHIS UNION MISSON
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 Tennessee
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
67% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
94%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 3 states
Part of a family of 3 related entities
- Wit Properties LLC · disregarded
- Memphis Union Mission Support Corporation · exempt
- Memphis Union Mission Support Corporation 2 · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MEMPHIS UNION MISSON: 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 MEMPHIS UNION MISSON?
- MEMPHIS UNION MISSON (Tennessee) receives grants from 53 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,776,803 to it, the largest being PLOUGH FOUNDATION ($1,000,000). 35 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MEMPHIS UNION MISSON have?
- IRS filings report 53 organizations giving $5,776,803 in grants to MEMPHIS UNION MISSON, 35 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MEMPHIS UNION MISSON?
- PLOUGH FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MEMPHIS UNION MISSON find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Tennessee. 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 53 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing