Washington · Nonprofit
UNDERGROUND MINISTRIES
UNDERGROUND MINISTRIES (Washington) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,785,002 to it, the largest being LILLY ENDOWMENT INC ($1,250,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.2M
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $1.8M
- Net assets
- $477k
What Underground Ministries does
Mission
Underground Ministries opens new relationships of embrace and trust between gang-affected prisioners and the communities to which they return, for our mutual transformation and resurrection.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Underground Ministries clarified all our existing operations and energies into three program categories: 1) direct reentry: our local, ongoing work of prison-reentry relationship and accompaniment amoung gang-affected men and women releasing to skagit county and surrounding counties continued to grow. Not only to serve more individuals, but our formerly incarcerated reentry navigators developed greater partnerships with employers, community college, laser tatto removal, department of corrections probation offices, recovery housing and even state representatives. One navigator founded a gang youth intervention group, our journey, to extend our reentry reach to youth who have been pushed out of the high schools and into the streets' gang recruitment. Direct reentry also gained significant funding from the wa department of commerce to extend greater digital navigation, technological support, basic needs and workplaces readiness for those we serve.
$267,109 spent35% of program spendingAdditional programs not listed previously: 2) one parish one prisoner: this program takes our local reentry practices and mobilizes churches to practice them with just one person released from prison into their community, over two years. Our opop director of operations expanded our program from 20 "parish teams" to 40 this year. And we completed a significant video interview series to enrich all 24 monthly learning modules with a variety of personal testimonials from our participants. Part of our state contracts contributed to staffing to expand parish recruitment in church networks and build our platform in conference circuits. 3) movement building: our mission to cast vision beyond just our two programs, while also investing in our database and back-end communications, invested in a new backend software for recurring donations, donor, and volunteer tracking, integrated with our newsletters communications. Our newsletter and social media will now deploy more of our original video material, in tandem, both resourcing the wider network out there while inspiring more donors to give and invest in our work.
$488,211 spent65% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $755,320.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 $171k to $1.4M (+744%).
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: 2022 54% · 2023 62% · 2024 71%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
96% of UNDERGROUND MINISTRIES’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (93% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 7 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
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $26k → $1.5M.
4 of 10 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 UNDERGROUND MINISTRIES’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
UNDERGROUND MINISTRIES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 70% of grant income and the top three 93%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
25% 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 UNDERGROUND MINISTRIES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 98% · 2019 100% · 2020 68% · 2021 99% · 2022 94% · 2023 85% — 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
25% of UNDERGROUND MINISTRIES's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
UNDERGROUND MINISTRIES draws 73% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $74k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
UNDERGROUND MINISTRIES runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,337 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,337 crime & legal nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like UNDERGROUND MINISTRIES
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 Washington
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
88% 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 UNDERGROUND MINISTRIES?
- UNDERGROUND MINISTRIES (Washington) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,785,002 to it, the largest being LILLY ENDOWMENT INC ($1,250,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does UNDERGROUND MINISTRIES have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $1,785,002 in grants to UNDERGROUND MINISTRIES, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of UNDERGROUND MINISTRIES?
- LILLY ENDOWMENT INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,250,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UNDERGROUND MINISTRIES find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. 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 2018–2024), and the filings of 10 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