California · Nonprofit
UNION RESCUE MISSION
UNION RESCUE MISSION (California) receives grants from 366 organizations whose IRS filings report $65,736,227 to it, the largest being THE AHMANSON FOUNDATION ($10,690,000). 234 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $68M
- Funders on record
- 366
- Grants received
- $66M
- Net assets
- $98M
What Union Rescue Mission does
Mission
Union Rescue Mission embraces people with the compassion of christ. We assist people experiencing homelessness by providing a comprehensive array of emergency and long-term services to our guests, including: food, shelter, clothing, medical and dental care, recovery programs, transitional housing, legal assistance, education, counseling, and job training to needy men, women, children, and families.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2024 return the organization reported starting a significant new program.
Urm is participating in a joint agreement with the city of los angeles and county of los angeles called inside safe.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).
Recovery - the mission offers a transformational discipleship program with the intent of helping people leave skid row, reunite with their families, and begin productive lives in a local community. Depending on the needs of an individual, the mission offers a 12-month intensive program that includes 2,000 hours of a biblical 12-step study, bible study, recovery classes, work therapy, individual counseling, learning center classes, and physical fitness classes. Also, participants attend classes in addiction education, anger management, relapse prevention, financial stewardship, vocational preparation, and leadership training. This intense program is followed by a transitional/apprenticeship phase lasting from 6 to 24 months to assist graduates in becoming employed, saving money, and securing housing.
$25,589,473 spentof which $16,349,793 as grants$595,520 earned by the program57% of program spendingShelter services - Union Rescue Mission (urm) is the oldest and largest rescue mission in los angeles, founded in 1891. Urm has three major facilities in los angeles county, all providing food, shelter, counseling, medical, mental, and dental care, as well as job search and placement. The main facility is in la's skid row on san pedro street and averages over 570 people under roof each night. There are also two family centers: hope gardens in sylmar, with single mothers, children, and about 25 senior ladies, with a total population of about 231 residing there. In addition, urm built and opened their new angeles house family center in 2022, with about 201 moms, dads, and kids there each night. Urm welcomed over 5,389 people through their doors in fiscal 2025, served over 531,953 meals, provided over 366,821 nights of safe shelter, and moved over 350 people into a more permanent housing situation.
$14,874,021 spent33% of program spendingCommunity outreach programs - the mission operates a donation program where donated goods are received and utilized to supplement purchased goods associated with providing resources in the shelter and recovery programs. Not all donations can be utilized by the mission; in such cases, they are distributed to numerous non-profit organizations throughout southern california.
$4,217,641 spentof which $2,017,399 as grants9% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $44,681,135.
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 2024 to 2025, from $94M to $109M (+16%).
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 0% · 2018 0% · 2019 0% · 2023 8% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of UNION RESCUE MISSION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (21% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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
David Wood
Chairman of the board
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 106 funders to 144 funders, grant income rose $4.0M → $11M.
40 of 366 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 30% 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 RESCUE MISSION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 366 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 RESCUE MISSION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 16% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
34% 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 RESCUE MISSION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 28% · 2018 22% · 2019 30% · 2020 56% · 2021 17% · 2022 27% · 2023 29% — 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.
How long its funders stay
43% of UNION RESCUE MISSION'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
63% of UNION RESCUE MISSION's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $20M arriving through sponsors registered in 17 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
UNION RESCUE MISSION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,396 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,396 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like UNION RESCUE MISSION
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
78%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Urm Support Corporation · exempt
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for UNION RESCUE MISSION: 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 RESCUE MISSION?
- UNION RESCUE MISSION (California) receives grants from 366 organizations whose IRS filings report $65,736,227 to it, the largest being THE AHMANSON FOUNDATION ($10,690,000). 234 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does UNION RESCUE MISSION have?
- IRS filings report 366 organizations giving $65,736,227 in grants to UNION RESCUE MISSION, 234 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of UNION RESCUE MISSION?
- THE AHMANSON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $10,690,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UNION RESCUE MISSION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 366 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