South Carolina · Nonprofit
UNITED MINISTRIES
UNITED MINISTRIES (South Carolina) receives grants from 86 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,642,364 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF GREENVILLE COUNTY INC ($2,139,842). 62 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.6M
- Funders on record
- 86
- Grants received
- $8.6M
- Net assets
- $3.2M
What United Ministries does
Mission
To provide life changing opportunities for people in greenville county who lack education or employment skills, who are in financial crisis, or who are homeless, and those who can help.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Place of hope: a day shelter for unhoused, provides hygiene services (showers, bathrooms, and laundry), a message center for mail and phone, strong case management, and access to other services at United Ministries and other agencies.
$361,991 spent11% of program spendingEmergency assistance/med: uses volunteer interviews to talk with 20-50 families each day to determine what kind of help is needed. United Ministries may give money for rent, utilities, heat, or prescriptions. Volunteers or staff may give a food bag or refer a familiy to other programs or agencies. The h.e.a.t. Program provides cooling and heating assistance to the elderly and to those with small children in their homes.
$464,420 spent15% of program spendingStriving to thrive: provides economic mobility coaching to support program participants as they stabilize and work to reach major life goals around a career, finances, housing, education, health, and more. Over time, participants build self-efficany while improving their financial and overall well-being.
$589,179 spent19% of program spendingHousing: provides families with children who are experiencing homelessness interim housing while working on long-term economic and psychological mobility goals. This multi-faceted approach helps families secure income sufficient to sustain permanent housing. Adult education: provides educational opportunities for adults. Support services for courses inculde testing and books. The pre-ged level addresses the need for students functioning at the 8th grade level. Ged prep prepares students to earn their ged. Adult education also provides financial support, guidance, and case management to those planning to further education. Emergency food pantry: provides grocery bags of food to participants. Mental health: counselor is to provide a supportive one-on-one relationship with participants and to offer active listening, appropriate guidance, and general direction for participants who may be learning to adjust or respond to life circumstances that are impacting their efforts to meet education, employment, or housing goals and achieve overall well-being.
$1,747,589 spent55% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,163,179.
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 2019 to 2020, from $2.3M to $3.6M (+52%).
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: 2018 8% · 2019 5% · 2020 3% · 2021 4% · 2022 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of UNITED MINISTRIES’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (90% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 14 funders to 40 funders, grant income rose $646k → $1.0M.
13 of 86 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 24% 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 UNITED MINISTRIES’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 86 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
UNITED MINISTRIES has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
65% 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 UNITED MINISTRIES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 74% · 2018 53% · 2019 49% · 2020 37% · 2021 21% · 2022 16% · 2023 16% — 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
59% of UNITED MINISTRIES's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 72% 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
76% of UNITED MINISTRIES's grant income comes from South Carolina funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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
UNITED MINISTRIES's funding base is broadening — from 14 funders to 40 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,211 religion nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like UNITED 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 South Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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 UNITED MINISTRIES: 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 UNITED MINISTRIES?
- UNITED MINISTRIES (South Carolina) receives grants from 86 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,642,364 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF GREENVILLE COUNTY INC ($2,139,842). 62 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does UNITED MINISTRIES have?
- IRS filings report 86 organizations giving $8,642,364 in grants to UNITED MINISTRIES, 62 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of UNITED MINISTRIES?
- UNITED WAY OF GREENVILLE COUNTY INC is the largest funder on record, with $2,139,842 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UNITED MINISTRIES find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in South Carolina. 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 86 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