Memphis Union Mission
Legal name: Memphis Union Misson
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 620541811
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Jul 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2024
- Location
- Memphis, TN, United States
- Phone
- (901) 526-8403
- Rating
- 75
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Homeless Shelters
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $6,855,464
- Expenses
- $5,947,369
- Assets
- $34,821,744
- Liabilities
- $4,983,806
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- DONALD SCOTT BJORK (PRESIDENT & CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- DONALD SCOTT BJORK (PRESIDENT & CEO): $183,130 total reported compensation
- DANIEL WEAVER (VP FINANCE & ADMINISTRATIO): $84,019 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
We minister to the physical, spiritual, and emotional needs of men, women, and families experiencing homelessness, addiction, and crisis—offering not only immediate care, but Christ-centered programs that lead to lasting transformation, restored lives, and renewed hope for the future. If you’re like many people throughout the Mid-South, you may have heard of Memphis Union Mission or passed by one of our campuses without fully realizing the life-changing work taking place inside. For more than 80 years, Memphis Union Mission has served as a place of hope, healing, and transformation for men experiencing homelessness, addiction, and crisis. While we continue to provide essential needs like shelter and meals, our mission goes far beyond meeting immediate needs. Through Christ-centered recovery programs, counseling, discipleship, and long-term support, we help men rebuild their lives and...
What it reported doing in 2024
Men's mission - men's emergency shelter provides food, clothing, shelter, hygiene, biblical counseling and gospel services to transient, homeless men. 181 beds per night plus additional emergency mats available. Provided 94,650 nights of shelter and 266,817 meals this year. Totals include our christian based 30-day recovery program which helped 181 men this year.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 88% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and some filed totals do not add up.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 60
- Transparency & Controls: 76
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 70
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 64.6%; rating input score 65
- Program expense ratio: 66.5%; rating input score 67
- Fundraising efficiency: $3.57 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 93.3%; rating input score 93; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 3 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 50
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 13.2%; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 5.85; rating input score 86; 86th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.14; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 4.5%; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 4.8% per year; rating input score 100; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 4.2% per year; rating input score 100; 35th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 9.9% per year; rating input score 100; 58th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 3 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 64.6% of revenue deployed · 66.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 8 of 8 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $4M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $183K · 10 people listed · 3 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $1.3M reported
- Consistency: 30 of 31 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 3 filed related-organization links
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 11/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 51/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 57/100.