North Dakota · Nonprofit
Ministry on the Margins
Ministry on the Margins (North Dakota) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $848,026 to it, the largest being NORTHWEST NORTH DAKOTA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($190,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.6M
- Funders on record
- 18
- Grants received
- $848k
- Net assets
- $1.1M
What Ministry on the Margins does
Mission
To foster charitable works in accord with the objectives and teachings of the Catholic Church and the Benedictine Order.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
On its FY2024 return the organization reported starting a significant new program.
Open Hours We offer open hours onsite twice a week. This time provides a time of connection where individuals are met where they are and connected to services customized to their unique needs whether provided by the ministry or other organizations. This includes providing birth certificates and other vital records, identification cards or driver's licenses, mail pick up, hygiene items, accessing totes, or assistance with housing and other applications. Additionally, outside of these services we offer free haircuts, ice cream social, vaccination clinics, STI testing, free eye clinics, acupuncture, hand & foot care, and positive table talk.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).
Ministry on the Margins began operations in 2016 to foster charitable works in accord with the objectives and teachings of the Catholic Church and the Benedictine Order. Ministry on the Margins is a volunteer-based ecumenical ministry committed to supporting those who fall through the cracks during times of transition, especially those reentering from prison to society or experiencing homelessness. Our charitable works performed for 2024 include the following:Food Pantry:We offer a food pantry which distributes basic food and household items to those in need. In 2024, we served 260,330 pounds of food to 29,504 individuals stemming from 11,456 households. We are able to do this through the 2,023 volunteers that helped serve our clients. We take a person-centered approach to all of our programs, meeting the individuals where they are and connecting them to additional services offered by the ministry and other organizations.Coffee House: We operate an overnight coffee house from 10pm to 6am in the summer and 10pm to 8am in the winter. Clients are able to come into a warm and safe environment for rest, food, and community. The Coffee House is low barrier and serves many who do not…
$1,329,948 spentof which $473,809 as grants$1,380 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,329,948.
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 2022 to 2023, from $862k to $1.1M (+28%).
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: 2019 15% · 2020 9% · 2021 13% · 2022 9% · 2023 12% · 2024 26%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of Ministry on the Margins’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (90% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 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
Sr Kathleen Atkinson
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 7 funders, grant income rose $0 → $346k.
6 of 18 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 42% 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 Ministry on the Margins’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 17 of 18 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
Ministry on the Margins has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 22% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
64% 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 Ministry on the Margins.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 44% · 2021 45% · 2022 63% · 2023 55% — 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
40% of Ministry on the Margins's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
72% of Ministry on the Margins's grant income comes from North Dakota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $358k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
Ministry on the Margins has grown faster than three-quarters of the 2,399 religion nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,399 religion nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like Ministry on the Margins
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 Dakota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Benedictine Sisters of the Annunciation BMV · exempt
- University of Mary · exempt
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Ministry on the Margins: 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 Ministry on the Margins?
- Ministry on the Margins (North Dakota) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $848,026 to it, the largest being NORTHWEST NORTH DAKOTA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($190,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Ministry on the Margins have?
- IRS filings report 18 organizations giving $848,026 in grants to Ministry on the Margins, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Ministry on the Margins?
- NORTHWEST NORTH DAKOTA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $190,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Ministry on the Margins find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Dakota. 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 18 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