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CONNECTIONS MINISTRY

EIN 81-3920157 MANKATO, MN

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Revenue 2025
$747,669
Expenses 2025
$685,044

Program services were 75.7% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
L41
Classification
1700
Street
800 S FRONT ST

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 · 2025

Mission

WALKING WITH INDIVIDUALS AND FAMILIES EXPERIENCING HOMELESSNESS BY EXTENDING A RADICAL WELCOME THAT PROVIDES DIGNITY, SHELTER, AND COMMUNITY.

  • CONNECTIONS SHELTER - LOW BARRIER SHELTER THAT OPERATES FROM APPROX. OCTOBER 1 TO MAY 1. WE HAVE 48 BEDS AND SERVE MEN, WOMEN AND FAMILIES. GUESTS APPLY FOR SHELTER VIA OUR WEBSITE, GO THROUGH AN INTAKE PROCESS AND ARE GIVEN A BED FOR 30 DAYS, ALONG WITH AN ASSIGNED NAVIGATOR TO ASSIST WITH OVERCOMING BARRIERS TO HOUSING. WE ARE OPEN FROM 5PM TO 8AM, AND WE ALSO PROVIDE A HOT DINNER EACH NIGHT, SHOWERS, HYGIENE ITEMS, CLOTHING, ETC. 2-3 PAID STAFF ARE IN THE SHELTER DURING ALL OPERATING HOURS.

    Expenses $317,835

  • GENERAL PROGRAMS - EXPENSES THAT APPLY TO BOTH PROGRAMS, SPECIAL EVENTS, ADMINISTRATIVE COSTS, ETC.

    Expenses $171,022 · Grants $16

  • DROP-IN CENTER - THE DROP-IN CENTER HOUSES OUR EXECUTIVE OFFICES, AS WELL AS SERVES AS A PLACE FOR GUESTS TO ACCESS BASIC NEEDS AND RESOURCES DURING THE DAY. GUESTS CAN ALSO MEET WITH THEIR ASSIGNED NAVIGATORS DURING THE DAY TO HELP WITH HOUSING AND OTHER RESOURCES.

    Expenses $21,735

  • OTHER PROGRAMS: ASSISTANCE AND SHELTER CHURCH

    Expenses $8,326 · Grants $8,066

As filed on the 2025 return.

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Jennifer Echevarria

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $70,000
    From this org
    $70,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Nancy Patterson

    CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • David Morgan

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • Elizabeth Levine

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • Kari Peterson

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Steve Lawrence

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Nicky Ploog

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Mike Brennan

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

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

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $747,669
    Expenses
    $685,044
    Contributions
    $756,665
    Grants paid
    $8,082
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $563,921
    Expenses
    $614,757
    Contributions
    $564,291
    Grants paid
    $2,488
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $511,775
    Expenses
    $483,758
    Contributions
    $511,639
    Grants paid
    $2,781
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $334,097
    Expenses
    $360,377
    Contributions
    $334,097
    Grants paid
    $0

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
    $249,454
    Expenses
    $304,292
    Assets (EOY)
    $128,354

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $244,457
    Expenses
    $170,509
    Assets (EOY)
    $184,675

  • 2019 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $129,791
    Expenses
    $81,380
    Assets (EOY)
    $102,573

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.

Grants made

  • CITY OF MANKATO

    $5,426

    2025 TRANSPORTATION ASSISTANCE

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

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 11 November 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 9 November 2026 and read 9 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.