Minnesota · Nonprofit
TWIN CITIES PRISON MINISTRY
TWIN CITIES PRISON MINISTRY (Minnesota) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $44,613 to it, the largest being CATHOLIC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MINNESOTA ($29,539). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 89% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2023
- $133k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $45k
- Net assets
- $124k
What Twin Cities Prison Ministry does
Mission
We participate in prison ministry as the face and heart of jesus christ, sharing his mercy, forgiveness and presence while letting insiders, their families and institutional staff know that they are not forgotten or alone.
As stated on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Pen pal program: current enrollment - outside pp: 469; inside pp: 455; total participants:924. Insiders released: 251; ignatian meditation videos: producing weekly videos. They are now streamed through the religious channel. Holiday cards for easter & christmas:every pen pal received at least 2 cards at christmas.besides individuals, we had participation from ust students; st joseph, rosemount middle school and faith formation students; st joseph, waconia school, xavier high school, appleton, wi angel tree: donation of 10,000. Divided between st peter claver, st bridget and st joseph. Served 35 families. Besides individual gifts to the children, we provided 200 gift cards per family.8400.00 spent; rosaries & booklets distributed to stillwater, lino lakes and oak park heights. Prayer companion newsletter produced weekly mass/communion/reconciliation at four facilities: lino lakes, shakopee, rush city, stillwater & once every five weeks at oak park heights. Support catholic studies program in lino lakes two jesuit novices met one/ one on a weekly basis at ramsey county jail from september to december supplied hmong & chinese bibles to inmates at ramsey and washington county workshop…
$25,241 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $25,241.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $5k → $25.
3 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 89% 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 TWIN CITIES PRISON MINISTRY’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
TWIN CITIES PRISON MINISTRY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 66% 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
89% 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 TWIN CITIES PRISON MINISTRY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2022 62% · 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
89% of TWIN CITIES PRISON MINISTRY'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 $5k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Minnesota, across 1 state.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $40k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
TWIN CITIES PRISON MINISTRY runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 6,806 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,806 philanthropy nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2023
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In Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
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 TWIN CITIES PRISON MINISTRY?
- TWIN CITIES PRISON MINISTRY (Minnesota) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $44,613 to it, the largest being CATHOLIC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MINNESOTA ($29,539). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 89% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does TWIN CITIES PRISON MINISTRY have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $44,613 in grants to TWIN CITIES PRISON MINISTRY, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of TWIN CITIES PRISON MINISTRY?
- CATHOLIC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MINNESOTA is the largest funder on record, with $29,539 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TWIN CITIES PRISON MINISTRY 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 FY2023 (financials across 2023–2023), and the filings of 4 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