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Union Gospel Mission of Tarrant County

Union Gospel Mission of Tarrant County (Texas) receives grants from 94 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,203,576 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($4,511,768). 60 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$23M
Funders on record
94
Grants received
$15M
Net assets
$89M
60/94 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 20%
01What it does

What Union Gospel Mission of Tarrant County does

Mission

A local united christian organization and ministry dedicated to providing love, hope, respect and a new beginning for the homeless, offering a holistic care program that leads to true lasting healing.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Union gospel mission of tarranty county strives each day to transform lives by offering three keys to lasting change - love, hope and respect. Ugm-tc offers resident programs for individuals to maximize their potential by devloping the skills needed to become independent productive community members. Every day, people in difficult situations benefit from daily chapel services, shelter, meals, a case management plan designed to address the physical, emotional, spiritual and social needs for each client which includes assistance programs, inter-agency collaboration and referrals. Services are provided for men, women, intact families, single fathers with children and single mothers with children. Children are provided with enrichment programs geared to learning, growth and development. In 2024, 6,444 homeless men, women and children were served a total of 106,055 nights of shelter. In addition, union gospel mission provides shelter, a hot shower, meals and fresh laundry for up to 128 overnight men and women per day. Overnight female guest have access to case management including recovery from drugs and alcohol, securing critical documents, job search and resume building skills and…

    $10,677,424 spentof which $113,469 as grants$68,871 earned by the program
    100% of program spending
  2. Meal service that provides hot meals and sack lunches to hungry people three meals per day, 365 days per year. During 2024, 247,969 meals were provided.

The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $10,677,424.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.

100 = 20192019 Revenue 100 ($15M) Expenses 100 ($8.6M) Net assets 100 ($41M)2020 Revenue 87 ($13M) Expenses 104 ($9.0M) Net assets 110 ($45M)2021 Revenue 197 ($29M) Expenses 113 ($9.7M) Net assets 158 ($65M)2022 Revenue 91 ($14M) Expenses 115 ($9.9M) Net assets 166 ($69M)2023 Revenue 142 ($21M) Expenses 121 ($10M) Net assets 193 ($80M)2024 Revenue 152 ($23M) Expenses 154 ($13M) Net assets 215 ($89M)
201920202021202220232024
Revenue (152)Expenses (154)Net assets (215)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $47M to $66M (+41%).

$42M
$47M
$66M
$75M
$81M
$90M
201920202021202220232024
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

$6.4M
’19
$4.1M
’20
$20M
’21
$3.7M
’22
$11M
’23
$9.4M
’24
2.5
months of
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.

Chief executive

Charles Wolford

President/CEO

Board chair

Eddie Broussard

Chairman

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

The chief executive listed changed between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.

201920202021202220232024
Listed283029292930
Joined·+4+2+3+1+5
No longer listed·23314
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 21 funders to 47 funders, grant income rose $686k → $4.2M.

23 of 94 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 53% 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: $289k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Living Wage Center Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money Union Gospel Mission of Tarrant County raised.

From the IRS filings of Union Gospel Mission of Tarrant County’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 94 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 of Tarrant County has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 30% 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

55% 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 Union Gospel Mission of Tarrant County.

30%
largest funder
54%
top three
~7
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 58% · 2018 35% · 2019 51% · 2020 49% · 2021 41% · 2022 52% · 2023 66% — 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

54% of Union Gospel Mission of Tarrant County's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

53% of Union Gospel Mission of Tarrant County'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 $7.1M that is directly attributable, 92% of it comes from Texas funders.

IL
WI
NY
OH
NJ
RI
CA
MO
VA
DE
NC
AL
TX
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’17
’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Texas out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $8.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 18 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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like Union Gospel Mission of Tarrant County

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 Texas

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

80% of spending goes to programs.

Program 80%Management 8%Fundraising 12%

Governance

23
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

56%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

TX

Part of a family of 4 related entities

  • Healing Shepherd Clinic · exempt
  • The Living Wage Center · exempt
  • The Vineyard on Lancaster LP · partnership
  • The Vineyard on Lancaster GP LLC · corp_trust

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Questions and answers

Who funds Union Gospel Mission of Tarrant County?
Union Gospel Mission of Tarrant County (Texas) receives grants from 94 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,203,576 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($4,511,768). 60 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does Union Gospel Mission of Tarrant County have?
IRS filings report 94 organizations giving $15,203,576 in grants to Union Gospel Mission of Tarrant County, 60 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Union Gospel Mission of Tarrant County?
NETWORK FOR GOOD is the largest funder on record, with $4,511,768 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Union Gospel Mission of Tarrant County find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2019–2024), and the filings of 94 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