Minnesota · Nonprofit
UNION GOSPEL MISSION INC
UNION GOSPEL MISSION INC (Minnesota) receives grants from 127 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,365,587 to it, the largest being Fred C and Katherine B Andersen Foundation ($1,050,000). 95 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.1M
- Funders on record
- 127
- Grants received
- $4.4M
- Net assets
- $1.6M
What Union Gospel Mission Inc does
Mission
The union gospel mission duluth is a welcoming christian nonprofit organization that serves as a refuge and is committed to nourishing peoples physical, spiritual, and social needs. Through our on-site meal program, community housing complex and supportive services, we provide a safe, caring environment for building up, with dignity and compassion, hope for our neighbors in need.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Meal program union gospel mission's primary program continues to be its community meal service. Lunch is served monday through friday and dinner monday through thursday, offered to anyone seeking support-no residency requirements. In fye25, the mission served 99,219 hot meals and 27,843 cereal bowls, averaging 200-250 guests per meal. Food rescue to reduce costs and minimize food waste, ugm's team travels daily throughout duluth rescuing surplus food from local grocery stores and food vendors. In fye25, the mission rescued 201,186 pounds of food. Items not used in meals are made available to guests through open shelves, refrigerators, and freezers located in the dining hall. Summer food bag program each summer, ugm fills weekend food gaps for children when school meal programs pause. The project joy initiative provides drawstring bags filled with easy-to-open, easy-to-prepare food items. In summer 2025, the mission distributed 4,130 food bags to youth across the northland through direct partnerships with local summer programs and community organizations. Mission heights housing ugm operates mission heights, a twenty-unit, deeply affordable housing program located above the…
$1,467,828 spent$57,185 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,467,828.
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.
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 $203k to $817k (+303%).
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 3% · 2018 3% · 2019 2% · 2020 1% · 2021 1% · 2022 0% · 2023 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Board chair
Karen Alseth
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 35 funders to 54 funders, grant income rose $220k → $512k.
5 of 127 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 3% 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 UNION GOSPEL MISSION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 127 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
UNION GOSPEL MISSION INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 24% of grant income, and it takes 7 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 7 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 15% · 2018 15% · 2019 11% · 2020 50% · 2021 32% · 2022 43% · 2023 12% — 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
43% of UNION GOSPEL MISSION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 75% 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
88% of UNION GOSPEL MISSION INC's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $115k 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.
Organizations like UNION GOSPEL 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 Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
91%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for UNION GOSPEL MISSION INC: 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 UNION GOSPEL MISSION INC?
- UNION GOSPEL MISSION INC (Minnesota) receives grants from 127 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,365,587 to it, the largest being Fred C and Katherine B Andersen Foundation ($1,050,000). 95 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does UNION GOSPEL MISSION INC have?
- IRS filings report 127 organizations giving $4,365,587 in grants to UNION GOSPEL MISSION INC, 95 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of UNION GOSPEL MISSION INC?
- Fred C and Katherine B Andersen Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $1,050,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UNION GOSPEL MISSION INC 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 127 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