Virginia · Nonprofit
THE UNION MISSION
THE UNION MISSION (Virginia) receives grants from 62 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,698,796 to it, the largest being ERNEST L RUTH E AND FRANCES E FENTRESS ($2,700,207). 43 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $11M
- Funders on record
- 62
- Grants received
- $7.7M
- Net assets
- $16M
What The Union Mission does
Mission
The Union Mission seeks to be a leader in gospel transforming ministry in hampton roads, providing a pathway to success for our homeless guests. We act to restore the lives of homeless neighbors by caring like christ.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The Union Mission provides shelter and a wide range of services to thouse experiencing homelessness (men, women and children) in southeastern virginia and beyond each year. Services include but not limited to emergency shelter, rehabilitation, and discipleship programs as well as food, clothing and basic necessities. The Union Mission also offers case management.we collaborate with local medical facilities and provide couseling and employment training. The Union Mission also provides assistance with obtaining ids, social security and va benefits and employment and housing. The Union Mission also provides classes and training in computers, conflict resolution, personal budgeting, job search and interviewing. Most importantly, The Union Mission offers couseling and help through the gospel of jesus christ to those experiencing trauma and hoplessness.
$5,290,854 spentof which $380,557 as grants$1,066,658 earned by the program83% of program spendingThe retail training center provides warehouse, donation sorting, and retail support for The Union Mission thrift store, proceeds from which benefit the ministry's operations.
$517,721 spent$398,100 earned by the program8% of program spendingHope haven is part of The Union Mission and leads christian camps, special needs outreaches, youth programs and retreats.
$588,690 spent$88,523 earned by the program9% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $6,397,265.
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 $19M to $15M (−21%).
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 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
71% of THE UNION MISSION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (21% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 18 funders to 32 funders, grant income rose $402k → $1.1M.
17 of 62 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 33% 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: $48k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Union Mission Holding Corporation). These are real filings, and they are not money THE UNION MISSION raised.
From the IRS filings of THE UNION MISSION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 62 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 UNION MISSION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 35% 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
44% 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 UNION MISSION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 58% · 2018 26% · 2019 55% · 2020 38% · 2021 37% · 2022 46% · 2023 37% — 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
56% of THE UNION MISSION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 69% 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
THE UNION MISSION draws 61% of its grant income from funders outside Virginia, across 12 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 12 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 UNION MISSION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,396 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,396 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like THE UNION 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 Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
73% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
86%
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 1 related entity
- Union Mission Holding Corp · exempt
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE UNION MISSION: 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 UNION MISSION?
- THE UNION MISSION (Virginia) receives grants from 62 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,698,796 to it, the largest being ERNEST L RUTH E AND FRANCES E FENTRESS ($2,700,207). 43 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE UNION MISSION have?
- IRS filings report 62 organizations giving $7,698,796 in grants to THE UNION MISSION, 43 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE UNION MISSION?
- ERNEST L RUTH E AND FRANCES E FENTRESS is the largest funder on record, with $2,700,207 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE UNION MISSION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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 62 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