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UNIVERSITY CHRISTIAN MINISTRY AT NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY
UNIVERSITY CHRISTIAN MINISTRY AT NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY (Illinois) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $83,913 to it, the largest being Network for Good ($77,303). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 92% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Marty and Dorothy Silverman Foundationshared funders
- Vogel Charities Incportfolio match
- Calvin Universityportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income fell $12k → $524.
2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 92% 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 UNIVERSITY CHRISTIAN MINISTRY AT NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY’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
UNIVERSITY CHRISTIAN MINISTRY AT NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 92% 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
92% 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 UNIVERSITY CHRISTIAN MINISTRY AT NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 98% · 2018 98% · 2019 97% · 2020 97% · 2021 98% · 2022 97% · 2023 95% — 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.
Where its funders are
92% of UNIVERSITY CHRISTIAN MINISTRY AT NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY'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 $7k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Illinois, across 1 state.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $77k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 statesis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- Marty and Dorothy Silverman Foundationshared fundersNY · backs 17 organizations that share your funders
- Vogel Charities Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Calvin Universityportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Barnabas Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Kharis Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Fund for Theological Education Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Wheaton Collegeportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Oklahoma United Methodist Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Matthew 2818-20 Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Heinemannmark & Judy Foundation-Importfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Adelfi Credit Unionportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Branches Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like UNIVERSITY CHRISTIAN MINISTRY AT NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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.
Where the money goes
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for UNIVERSITY CHRISTIAN MINISTRY AT NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds UNIVERSITY CHRISTIAN MINISTRY AT NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY?
- UNIVERSITY CHRISTIAN MINISTRY AT NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY (Illinois) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $83,913 to it, the largest being Network for Good ($77,303). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 92% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does UNIVERSITY CHRISTIAN MINISTRY AT NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $83,913 in grants to UNIVERSITY CHRISTIAN MINISTRY AT NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of UNIVERSITY CHRISTIAN MINISTRY AT NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY?
- Network for Good is the largest funder on record, with $77,303 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UNIVERSITY CHRISTIAN MINISTRY AT NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2020–2025), and the filings of 4funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing