Illinois · Nonprofit
THE NIGHT MINISTRY
THE NIGHT MINISTRY (Illinois) receives grants from 328 organizations whose IRS filings report $34,684,106 to it, the largest being Fulk Family Foundation Inc ($5,000,000). 214 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $11M
- Funders on record
- 328
- Grants received
- $35M
- Net assets
- $13M
What The Night Ministry does
Mission
The Night Ministry is a chicago-based organization whose mission is to provide human connection, housing support and health care to those who are unhoused or experiencing poverty.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Youth programs:The Night Ministry's youth housing programs provide a continuum of services for youth experiencing homelessness. The youth outreach team supports young people who are unstably housed or unhoused, helping them make a safe plan for themselves, sometimes including shelter. The crib is an emergency overnight shelter with 21 beds, providing basic needs for 18-24 year olds on a night-to-night basis. The interim shelter at open door shelter west town provides 24-hour support and shelter for 16 young people ages 14-21. (see sch o) youth programs also provides two transitional housing programs serving 16-24 year olds for as long as two years: pathways (12 beds) and parenting with purpose, which serves young people who are either pregnant or parenting (8 beds, plus infant cribs). The flexible housing pool provides a long-term subsidy for 92 young people (18+ years old and their children) through a partnership to provide housing for individuals involved in one or more public assistance systems, including the homeless services system. Overall, tnm's youth programs served 629 youth and their 142 children during the year ended june 30, 2025.
$5,367,690 spentof which $326,114 as grants71% of program spendingOutreach and health program: the outreach and health program provides healthcare, case management, and counseling services to youth and adult individuals in several chicago communities. In the year ended june 30, 2025, The Night Ministry made over 58,000 health outreach contacts reaching over 5,100 individuals.
$2,225,035 spent29% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $7,592,725.
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 $8.7M to $15M (+71%).
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 17% · 2018 19% · 2019 15% · 2020 16% · 2021 17% · 2022 33% · 2023 23% · 2024 33% · 2025 35%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of THE NIGHT MINISTRY’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (21% 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
Carol J Sharp
President & CEO
Board chair
Mike Borromeo
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 66 funders to 145 funders, grant income rose $1.8M → $4.6M.
29 of 328 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 24% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $1.4M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Tnm Asset Management Organization Nfp). These are real filings, and they are not money THE NIGHT MINISTRY raised.
From the IRS filings of THE NIGHT MINISTRY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 328 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
THE NIGHT MINISTRY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 14% of grant income, and it takes 8 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 8 funders to its left
38% 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 THE NIGHT MINISTRY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 45% · 2018 57% · 2019 28% · 2020 19% · 2021 13% · 2022 13% · 2023 13% — 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
52% of THE NIGHT MINISTRY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% 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
66% of THE NIGHT MINISTRY's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $8.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 16 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
THE NIGHT MINISTRY's funding base is broadening — from 66 funders to 145 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,396 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding THE NIGHT MINISTRY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $10.2M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$6.8M
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$3.3M
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like THE NIGHT MINISTRY
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 Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
70% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
93%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Tnm Asset Management Organization · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE NIGHT MINISTRY: 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 THE NIGHT MINISTRY?
- THE NIGHT MINISTRY (Illinois) receives grants from 328 organizations whose IRS filings report $34,684,106 to it, the largest being Fulk Family Foundation Inc ($5,000,000). 214 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE NIGHT MINISTRY have?
- IRS filings report 328 organizations giving $34,684,106 in grants to THE NIGHT MINISTRY, 214 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE NIGHT MINISTRY?
- Fulk Family Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $5,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE NIGHT MINISTRY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 328 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