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PUBLIC SAFETY MINISTRIES INC

PUBLIC SAFETY MINISTRIES INC (Minnesota) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,557 to it, the largest being STEVEN L AND JAN L KIRCHNER FAMILY FOUNDATION ($1,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$14k
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$2k
Net assets
$0
1/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 2%
01What it does

What Public Safety Ministries Inc does

Mission

The primary purpose of public safety ministries, inc. Is to promote and facilitate spiritual fitness in the public safety professions throughout the state of minnesota.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. Public safety ministries, inc. Currently serves approximately 800 law enforcement leaders throughout the state of minnesota. Service include providing spiritual care and support to those individuals and their organizations in time of crisis or professional challenges. The ministry also provides a wide variety of training and educational services including chaplain training and development, military reintegration awareness and spiritual fitness awareness. Additional services include organizing spiritual fitness gatherings and the provision of invocations and prayers at professional gatherings.

    $37,038 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $37,038.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($94k) Expenses 100 ($95k) Net assets 100 ($11k)2018 Revenue 80 ($75k) Expenses 89 ($84k) Net assets 19 ($2k)2019 Revenue 81 ($76k) Expenses 73 ($69k) Net assets 80 ($9k)2020 Revenue 83 ($78k) Expenses 52 ($49k) Net assets 330 ($38k)2021 Revenue 65 ($61k) Expenses 47 ($45k) Net assets 467 ($54k)2022 Revenue 47 ($44k) Expenses 54 ($51k) Net assets 407 ($47k)2023 Revenue 23 ($22k) Expenses 36 ($34k) Net assets 298 ($34k)2024 Revenue 13 ($12k) Expenses 16 ($16k) Net assets 268 ($31k)2025 Revenue 14 ($14k) Expenses 46 ($44k) Net assets 0 ($0)
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Revenue (14)Expenses (46)Net assets (0)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $31k to $0 (−100%).

$13k
$4k
$13k
$38k
$55k
$48k
$35k
$31k
$0
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$999
’17
−$9k
’18
$7k
’19
$29k
’20
$16k
’21
−$7k
’22
−$13k
’23
−$3k
’24
−$31k
’25
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $2k → $23.

Funder
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'20
'21
'22
'23
total
funders
1
1
1
1
1

1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 4% 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 PUBLIC SAFETY MINISTRIES INC’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

PUBLIC SAFETY MINISTRIES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 96% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

96%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — 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.

Where its funders are

100% of PUBLIC SAFETY MINISTRIES INC's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.

MN

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $57 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like PUBLIC SAFETY MINISTRIES INC

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 Minnesota

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Public support

82%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MN

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Questions and answers

Who funds PUBLIC SAFETY MINISTRIES INC?
PUBLIC SAFETY MINISTRIES INC (Minnesota) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,557 to it, the largest being STEVEN L AND JAN L KIRCHNER FAMILY FOUNDATION ($1,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does PUBLIC SAFETY MINISTRIES INC have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $1,557 in grants to PUBLIC SAFETY MINISTRIES INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of PUBLIC SAFETY MINISTRIES INC?
STEVEN L AND JAN L KIRCHNER FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like PUBLIC SAFETY MINISTRIES INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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 2 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