Michigan · Nonprofit
URBAN TRANSFORMATION MINISTRIES
URBAN TRANSFORMATION MINISTRIES (Michigan) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $80,303 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($41,903). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $84k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $80k
- Net assets
- $3k
What Urban Transformation Ministries does
Mission
Urban Transformation Ministries exists to redeem inner-city youth, families, and communities with the transforming gospel of christ.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Youth ministries include: thursday night hype- 26 participants the rock - 22 participants mentoring - 31 participants reset house - a residential program that assists at-risk urban men ages 18 -29 2 participants kaa - 25 participants programs are designed to break he fatherless cycle and strengthen families in christ by providing resources, mentoring, and opportunities for growth for those who come from unstable family environments.
$145,288 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $145,288.
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 $73k to $3k (−96%).
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 URBAN TRANSFORMATION MINISTRIES’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. 3 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Joel Shaffer
Exec dir
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $20k → $6k.
3 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 URBAN TRANSFORMATION MINISTRIES’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
URBAN TRANSFORMATION MINISTRIES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 52% 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 URBAN TRANSFORMATION MINISTRIES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 75% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
100% of URBAN TRANSFORMATION MINISTRIES'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $80k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
URBAN TRANSFORMATION MINISTRIES has grown faster than half of the 9,787 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,787 human services nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like URBAN TRANSFORMATION 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 Michigan
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for URBAN TRANSFORMATION 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 URBAN TRANSFORMATION MINISTRIES?
- URBAN TRANSFORMATION MINISTRIES (Michigan) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $80,303 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($41,903). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does URBAN TRANSFORMATION MINISTRIES have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $80,303 in grants to URBAN TRANSFORMATION MINISTRIES, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of URBAN TRANSFORMATION MINISTRIES?
- NETWORK FOR GOOD is the largest funder on record, with $41,903 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like URBAN TRANSFORMATION MINISTRIES find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Michigan. 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 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