City Union Mission

What it reported doing in 2024

Men's recovery christian life program (clp): the mission offers a christ-centered program for men dedicated to recovery from addiction, trauma and other destructive challenges. The christian life program is a twelve to eighteen month residential program which takes a holistic and personalized approach to rebuilding lives physically, mentally, socially and spiritually through individualized case management, counseling, work therapy, adult education (in our learning center), career development and job placement. Clients are required to work toward earning their ged. There were 43 intakes, 80 total program and 23 graduates. The clp provided 12,022 bed nights; served 10,731 meals; and delivered 3,042 hours in the learning center. Women & children recovery new life program (nlp): the mission offers a christ-centered program for women and families dedicated to recovery from addiction, trauma and other destructive challenges. The new life program is a nine month residential program which takes a holistic and personalized approach to rebuilding lives physically, mentally, socially and spiritually through individualized case management, counseling, work therapy, adult education (in our learning center), career development and job placement. Clients are required to work toward earning their ged. The program focuses on empowering women with marketable job skills and promoting a healthy lifestyle through fitness and nutrition. With available 56 beds, in fiscal year 2025 the new life program provided over 5,666 bed nights; served 10,371 meals; and, delivered 1,109 hours in the learning center. Youth camp cumcito (city union mission camp in the ozarks): the mission operates a summer camp that offers guests the opportunity to enjoy swimming, hiking, canoeing, crafts, bible teaching, fishing, drama, songs and campfires, all designed to give kids new hope and a fun-packed week in a loving and structured environment. In fiscal year 2025, camp cumcito served 113 low-income children (ages 4-16); provided 716 bed nights; and served 1,695 meals. Community assistance (ca): the mission provides extensive, compassionate relief services to low-income community residents, including the distribution of food, clothing, household items, furniture, utility assistance, case management, and a women's bible study. The mission also offers significant seasonal programs such as thanksgiving food assistance, mission christmas, and school clothing distribution. In fiscal year 2025, the mission served 1,209 guests, and provided 1,469 vouchers to qualified guests to purchase needed items at the local "buy the pound" thrift store. Gift-in-kind and material warehouse: the mission owns a material warehouse (27,000 square feet) that facilitates the receipt of large corporate/business product donations, as well as private donations, of food, clothing, paper items (plates, bowls, cups), plasticware, etc. The warehouse enables the mission to increase operational capacity, and to improve control over inventory management, making our services available to more guests. Food warehouse: the mission owns a food warehouse (7,400 square feet) that receives and stores large food quantities (both donated and purchased) in order to supply the substantial food demands of their various men's, women's and children ministries. The warehouse has freezer, refrigerated and dry storage capacity. Car ministry program: reliable transportation is one of the greatest challenges our recovery program graduates face on the path to independence. Public transportation options, even when feasible, can be time consuming and inflexible. Through the mission's car ministry program, we ensure that many of our graduates are supported with a means of transportation in order to get to work, do grocery shopping, manage personal appointments and care for their families' needs. We do this by providing them with a dependable vehicle. Qualified candidates receive a car, and assistance maintaining that car, for six

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: 91.8%; rating input score 92
• Program expense ratio: 84.5%; rating input score 85
• Fundraising efficiency: $11.17 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 41; 41st percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

• Consistency checks: 95%; rating input score 95; 25th percentile among comparable filings
• Pay-setting controls: Limited
• Foreign activity oversight: Limited
• Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
• Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
• Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

• Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
• Governance controls: 8 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 89
  • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
  • Whistleblower policy: Pass
  • Document-retention policy: Pass
  • CEO compensation review process: Pass
  • Other executive compensation review process: Fail
  • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
  • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
  • Audit committee oversight: Pass
  • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

• Operating margin: 0.2%; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.05; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.12; rating input score 70; 70th percentile among comparable filings
• Officer compensation ratio: 2.2%; rating input score 75; 75th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: 6.7% per year; rating input score 100; 54th percentile among comparable filings
• Revenue growth: 5.9% per year; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
• Asset growth: 4.5% per year; rating input score 100; 32nd percentile among comparable filings