Arizona · Nonprofit
PHOENIX GOSPEL MISSION
PHOENIX GOSPEL MISSION (Arizona) receives grants from 199 organizations whose IRS filings report $24,759,509 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($4,650,312). 109 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $34M
- Funders on record
- 199
- Grants received
- $25M
- Net assets
- $41M
What Phoenix Gospel Mission does
Mission
Provide christ-centered, life-transforming solutions to persons facing hunger, homelessness, addiction, and trauma. The phoenix rescue mission is a place of hope, healing, and new beginnings for men, women, and children in our community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Food distribution - the food distribution program provides food assistance to individuals and families facing food insecurity across the phoenix metro area. Through our hope for hunger food bank in glendale and mobile pantries, we distribute nutritious food, fresh produce, and essential goods to low-income households in need. In addition to food assistance, families receive guidance from case managers who help them identify goals, create a plan, and connect with resources that promote long-term stability. On average, the food distribution program serves 3,847 households each month.
$11,051,985 spent40% of program spendingChanging lives center for women & children -the changing lives center serves up to 100 adult women and 50 children with crisis residential placement, behavioral health, and addiction recovery services, and childcare. The programs offered at the center aim to rescue people from crisis situations into a safe, supportive environment and place them on a path to achieving sustainable goals. Clients battling substance abuse, mental health conditions, and other life-controlling problems participate in a 12-month program that provides rehabilitation and life skills classes, individual counseling, workforce development and job placement, case management, childcare, and christian discipleship.
$4,114,990 spent$302,187 earned by the program15% of program spendingTransforming lives center for men - the transforming lives center (tlc) serves up to 360 adult men with crisis residential placement, behavioral health, and addiction recovery services. The programs offered at the center aim to rescue people from crisis situations into a safe, supportive environment and place them on a path to achieving sustainable goals. Clients battling substance abuse, mental health conditions, and other life-controlling problems participate in a 12-month program that provides rehabilitation and life skills classes, individual counseling, workforce development and job placement, case management, and christian discipleship.
$4,510,121 spent$702,234 earned by the program17% of program spendingOther program serviceshomeless outreach - homeless street outreach is a mobile outreach program that provides services to people experiencing homelessness across the valley. Nearly every day of the year, hope coach vehicles travel the streets, offering water, hygiene kits, socks, and other items to men, women, and families living in places not meant for human habitation. Outreach case managers set case plans with participants, connect them to resources, and follow up consistently to keep them on track to reach their goals. The program helps an average of 113 people each month get off the streets and into a safe residential setting.program support and other programsvocational development is a comprehensive program that provides clients with the opportunity to master basic academic and employment skills and move from financial instability to economic security. The program supports clients with academic advancement, financial literacy, job preparation, and job placement. Clients are offered opportunities to use grant funds from the workforce innovation and opportunity act (wioa) to take advantage of vocational certification opportunities. Prm's vocational development department…
$7,654,829 spent$3,687,198 earned by the program28% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $27,331,925.
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 2019 to 2020, from $26M to $37M (+41%).
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: 2017 2% · 2018 3% · 2019 4% · 2020 1% · 2021 3% · 2022 5% · 2023 2% · 2024 2% · 2025 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
81% of PHOENIX GOSPEL MISSION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (84% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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
Ken Brissa
Chief executive officer
Board chair
Mary Kostrivas
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 36 funders to 89 funders, grant income rose $972k → $2.7M.
29 of 199 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 53% 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 PHOENIX GOSPEL MISSION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 199 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
PHOENIX GOSPEL MISSION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 19% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 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 PHOENIX GOSPEL MISSION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 16% · 2018 23% · 2019 26% · 2020 16% · 2021 18% · 2022 24% · 2023 17% — broadly stable.
“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
53% of PHOENIX GOSPEL MISSION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% 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
53% of PHOENIX GOSPEL MISSION'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. Of the $12M that is directly attributable, 57% of it comes from Arizona funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $13M arriving through sponsors registered in 21 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
PHOENIX GOSPEL MISSION's revenue grew 126% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 127 religion nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like PHOENIX GOSPEL MISSION
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 Arizona
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 27 states
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Questions and answers
- Who funds PHOENIX GOSPEL MISSION?
- PHOENIX GOSPEL MISSION (Arizona) receives grants from 199 organizations whose IRS filings report $24,759,509 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($4,650,312). 109 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does PHOENIX GOSPEL MISSION have?
- IRS filings report 199 organizations giving $24,759,509 in grants to PHOENIX GOSPEL MISSION, 109 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PHOENIX GOSPEL MISSION?
- NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $4,650,312 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PHOENIX GOSPEL MISSION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Arizona. 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 199 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