Illinois · Nonprofit
UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST PRISON MINISTRY OF ILLINOIS
UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST PRISON MINISTRY OF ILLINOIS (Illinois) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $46,869 to it, the largest being CROSSROADS FUND INC ($46,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $95k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $47k
- Net assets
- $62k
What Unitarian Universalist Prison Ministry of Illinois does
Mission
Prison ministry: To bring comfort to incarcerated individuals. To assist individuals released from prison in reintegrating into society.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Ministry: 77% of total expenses go to staff salaries and associated professional expenses for travel and incidentals. This compensation is a major driving force in the programming, as the Minister and the Prison Solidarity Specialist [associate] co-lead with volunteers or lead workshops, education opportunities, as well as providing administrative support without which said programming would not occur. The minister and associate also provides spiritual care, leadership and is a driver of communication amongst leaders and volunteers in the various team ministries while also serving as a representatives and information-sharer in community spaces on behalf of the organization, reaching 1200 contacts in Illinois through our newsletter and working with leaders and teams in the working ministries of Education (currently 50 people), Advocacy (20 people), Inside ministry (13 people), Solidarity Circles (15 people), as well as reaching congregations through Sunday morning services.
$69,977 spent82% of program spendingEducation: (theology, advocacy, trauma informed pastoral care, intercultural competency, circle keeping, how to be a Pen Pal with someone in prison) account for 10% of total expenses. Various workshops and training benefits 200 people who receive ongoing services of support and programming. Other expenses go to communications costs for software as well as postage and paper for mailing newsletters to people incarcerated in Illinois. Advisory Council (6 people) composed of members from a variety of cultural backgrounds, who advise the Steering Committee and provide education opportunities for leadership and members at large.
$9,369 spent11% of program spendingSolidarity Circles account for 7% of total expenses. Five circle leaders (recently released from prison) benefit from this financial and moral support. This is to assist them in reintegrating into society. Each grantee works with a Solidarity Circle Group from their local congregation.
$6,000 spent7% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $85,346.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 $57k to $63k (+9%).
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.
98% of UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST PRISON MINISTRY OF ILLINOIS’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Rev Allison Farnum
Minister and Executive Director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $200 → $8k.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST PRISON MINISTRY OF ILLINOIS’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
UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST PRISON MINISTRY OF ILLINOIS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 99% 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
100% 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 UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST PRISON MINISTRY OF ILLINOIS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 99% · 2022 100% · 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
100% of UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST PRISON MINISTRY OF ILLINOIS's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $169 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST PRISON MINISTRY OF ILLINOIS has grown faster than three-quarters of the 6,869 religion nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,869 religion nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST PRISON MINISTRY OF ILLINOIS
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 Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
89%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST PRISON MINISTRY OF ILLINOIS?
- UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST PRISON MINISTRY OF ILLINOIS (Illinois) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $46,869 to it, the largest being CROSSROADS FUND INC ($46,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST PRISON MINISTRY OF ILLINOIS have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $46,869 in grants to UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST PRISON MINISTRY OF ILLINOIS, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST PRISON MINISTRY OF ILLINOIS?
- CROSSROADS FUND INC is the largest funder on record, with $46,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST PRISON MINISTRY OF ILLINOIS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 2022–2025), and the filings of 3 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