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VENTURE

EIN 41-1720155 BURNSVILLE, MN

Revenue 2024
$9,544,140
Expenses 2024
$8,751,962

Program services were 87.3% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
Classification
7000
Street
511 E TRAVELERS TRL

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

IN TOUGH PLACES - UNSAFE, UNREACHED, AND UNRESOURCED - VENTURE PARTNERS WITH COURAGEOUS LEADERS TO MAKE THE GOSPEL KNOWN AND FIGHT INJUSTICE BY BRINGING RELIEF TO WAR-TORN FAMILIES, COMBATING HUMAN TRAFFICKING, AND EQUIPPING MARGINALIZED WOMEN - ALL WHILE PLANTING CHURCHES AND MAKING DISCIPLES.

Activities or mission (Part I)

VENTURE IS DEDICATED TO MAKING THE GOSPEL KNOWN AND FIGHTING INJUSTICE IN TOUGH PLACES. TOGETHER, THEY FORM THE INTERSECTION WHERE SOCIETAL CHANGE BEGINS AND GENERATIONAL TRANSFORMATION OCCURS. THIS APPROACH, MADE POSSIBLE THROUGH OUR PARTNERS, IS CARRIED OUT THROUGH OUR FOUR PROGRAMS: ANTI-TRAFFICKING, REFUGEE CARE, WOMEN'S HEALTH, AND CHURCH PLANTING.

  • OUR THREE LARGEST INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMS ARE ANTI-TRAFFICKING, REFUGEE CARE, AND CHURCH PLANTING. 1) ANTI-TRAFFICKING: WE PREVENT, RESCUE, AND RESTORE GIRLS FROM HUMAN TRAFFICKING BY RAISING AWARENESS, PROVIDING SAFE HOUSING AND VOCATIONAL TRAINING, CONDUCTING RESCUES, AND OFFERING HOLISTIC CARE ROOTED IN THE HOPE OF THE GOSPEL. 2) REFUGEE CARE: WE PROVIDE URGENT RELIEF AND LONG-TERM HOPE FOR FAMILIES AND OTHERS DISPLACED BY WAR - ADDRESSING IMMEDIATE PHYSICAL AND SPIRITUAL NEEDS WHILE EQUIPPING THEM TO BEGIN REBUILDING THEIR LIVES. 3) CHURCH PLANTING: WE COURAGEOUSLY SHARE THE GOSPEL, ENGAGING IN MULTIPLICATIVE DISCIPLE MAKING AND CHURCH PLANTING AMONGST UNREACHED PEOPLE GROUPS - LEADING TO WIDESPREAD COMMUNITY TRANSFORMATION THAT HAS A GENERATIONAL IMPACT. IN 2024, WE PROVIDED RESCUE AND SAFETY TO 600 GIRLS FROM HUMAN TRAFFICKING. WE ALSO DISTRIBUTED 13,190,765 MEALS TO THOSE DISPLACED BY WAR AND PLANTED 8,337 CHURCHES IN UNREACHED AREAS.

    Expenses $7,644,392 · Grants $5,528,452 · Revenue $168,682

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • TIM SKOOG

    CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD, CO-FOUNDER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • RYAN SKOOG

    PRESIDENT, CEO, CO-FOUNDER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • BRAD AHLM

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • PAUL HURCKMAN

    SECRETARY, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $122,912
    From this org
    $122,912
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • TERRY BOYNTON

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • SETH NIELSEN

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • TERRY LIJEWSKI

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • ANDREA LATHROP

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • LINDA FURRY

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $9,544,140
    Expenses
    $8,751,962
    Contributions
    $9,233,401
    Grants paid
    $5,528,452
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $7,644,584
    Expenses
    $7,557,791
    Contributions
    $7,430,587
    Grants paid
    $4,782,696
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $6,005,204
    Expenses
    $5,978,514
    Contributions
    $6,079,477
    Grants paid
    $3,629,903

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $6,516,603
    Expenses
    $5,424,135
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,889,777

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,015,273
    Expenses
    $3,588,093
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,192,933

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $5,153,869
    Expenses
    $4,285,509
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,001,950

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,493,655
    Expenses
    $3,831,251
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,045,489

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,496,848
    Expenses
    $3,416,217
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,284,831

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,160,229
    Expenses
    $2,602,867
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,197,368

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,536,938
    Expenses
    $2,538,882
    Assets (EOY)
    $526,884

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,782,937
    Expenses
    $1,544,165
    Assets (EOY)
    $525,290

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,586,310
    Expenses
    $1,448,541
    Assets (EOY)
    $368,533

  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $1,022,382
    Assets (EOY)
    $187,845

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

  • SPEED THE LIGHT

    $77,952

    2022 ANTI TRAFFICKING

  • RIVER VALLEY CHURCH

    $53,049

    2022 FOOD SECURITY

  • THE REEL HOPE PROJECT

    $35,264

    2022 FOOD SECURITY

  • ICCM

    $20,835

    2022 ANTI TRAFFICKING

  • JOYCORPS

    $16,173

    2022 MOBILIZATION

  • FRIENDS OF WHITE PLAINS YOUTH BUREAU

    $8,516

    2022 FOOD SECURITY

  • SPEED THE LIGHT

    $0

    2023 ANTI TRAFFICKING

  • THE REEL HOPE PROJECT

    $0

    2023 FOOD SECURITY

  • ICCM LIFE CENTER

    $0

    2024 ANTI TRAFFICKING

  • THE REEL HOPE PROJECT

    $0

    2024 FOOD SECURITY

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 26 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.