Kansas · Nonprofit
TOPEKA RESCUE MISSION INC
TOPEKA RESCUE MISSION INC (Kansas) receives grants from 44 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,920,369 to it, the largest being TOPEKA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($941,754). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 61% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $5.4M
- Funders on record
- 44
- Grants received
- $3.9M
- Net assets
- $10M
What Topeka Rescue Mission Inc does
Mission
The topeka rescue mission is dedicated to helping the homeless and hungry by providing emergency shelter to approximately 2,000 men, women and children and serving over 400,000 meals annually. Trm provides a christian social service ministry to meet spiritual, emotional and physical needs through education, training, compassion and hope.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
The mission of topeka rescue mission is to bring help and hope to the homeless and impoverished in the greater topeka area. Topeka rescue mission addresses the issues of hunger, homelessness, and hopelessness by providing food, safe shelter, and educational programming for adults and children. Services are provided to those experiencing homelessness who stay in our facilities, outside on the streets, and those who are impoverished.
$3,849,681 spentof which $90,019 as grants85% of program spendingTopeka rescue mission operates a distribution center to expand their outreach to meeting the needs of the poor in the community. Operation street reach was also created to reach out to unsheltered homeless individuals not currently receiving trm services. Trm believes the effort to understand the root causes of poverty and homelessness will help to empower and transform individuals, families and communities.
$663,324 spent15% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,513,005.
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 $9.9M to $12M (+19%).
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: 2020 9% · 2021 7% · 2022 5% · 2023 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of TOPEKA RESCUE MISSION INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (39% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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.
Board chair
Penny Moylan
Board chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 14 funders to 19 funders, grant income fell $487k → $426k.
19 of 44 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 61% 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 TOPEKA RESCUE MISSION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 44 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
TOPEKA RESCUE MISSION INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 24% 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
86% 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 TOPEKA RESCUE MISSION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 27% · 2018 22% · 2019 38% · 2020 19% · 2021 22% · 2022 31% · 2023 30% — growing more concentrated.
“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 TOPEKA RESCUE MISSION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% 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
61% of TOPEKA RESCUE MISSION INC'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 $1.5M that is directly attributable, 88% of it comes from Kansas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 15 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
TOPEKA RESCUE MISSION INC is better cushioned than half of the 3,973 housing & shelter nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,973 housing & shelter nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding TOPEKA RESCUE MISSION INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $783k on record.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$783k
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 TOPEKA RESCUE MISSION 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 Kansas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds TOPEKA RESCUE MISSION INC?
- TOPEKA RESCUE MISSION INC (Kansas) receives grants from 44 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,920,369 to it, the largest being TOPEKA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($941,754). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 61% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does TOPEKA RESCUE MISSION INC have?
- IRS filings report 44 organizations giving $3,920,369 in grants to TOPEKA RESCUE MISSION INC, 28 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of TOPEKA RESCUE MISSION INC?
- TOPEKA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $941,754 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TOPEKA RESCUE MISSION INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Kansas. 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 44 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