The Union Mission Ministries
Legal name: The Union Mission
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 540506427
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Norfolk, VA, USA
- Phone
- (757) 627-8686
- Rating
- 77
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Human Service Organizations
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $10,810,113
- Expenses
- $8,736,090
- Assets
- $16,331,201
- Liabilities
- $236,486
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
16 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JOHN DEVAN (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- JOHN W GRAY JR (EXECUTIVE DI): $130,540 total reported compensation
- FRANK C WHITE (CFO): $125,081 total reported compensation
- DOUGLAS D PRESTON (SR. DIR OF P): $91,103 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The Union Mission Ministries provides hope, health support, and healing that leads to transformation and wholeness by serving people experiencing homelessness in Hampton Roads, Virginia. Over the years, the Men’s and Women’s Shelters moved five times until 2009 when a permanent campus was established on Virginia Beach Blvd. in Norfolk. The Union Mission Ministries have included numerous resources for and outreaches to the South Hampton Roads, Virginia community. As our region’s needs have changed, so have The Union Mission’s ministries. We continue to look for the most effective ways to share the love of Christ with those in need and to serve those experiencing homelessness in our community. Read more about The Union Mission’s History. Caring Like Christ: The Union Mission Leadership and Staff.
What it reported doing in 2024
The union mission provides shelter and a wide range of services to thouse experiencing homelessness (men, women and children) in southeastern Virginia and beyond each year. Services include but not limited to emergency shelter, rehabilitation, and discipleship programs as well as food, clothing and basic necessities. The union mission also offers case management.we collaborate with local medical facilities and provide couseling and employment training. The union mission also provides assistance with obtaining ids, social security and va benefits and employment and housing. The union mission also provides classes and training in computers, conflict resolution, personal budgeting, job search and interviewing. Most importantly, the union mission offers couseling and help through the gospel of jesus christ to those experiencing trauma and hoplessness.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 71% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 94% 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 - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 61
- Transparency & Controls: 94
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 73
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 61.5%; rating input score 62
- Program expense ratio: 73.2%; rating input score 73
- Fundraising efficiency: $5.28 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd 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: 7 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 88
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- 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: 19.2%; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.87; rating input score 59; 59th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 4.1%; rating input score 59; 59th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -6.6% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 2.3% per year; rating input score 100; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -4% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 2 operating locations identified
- Where the money goes: 61.5% of revenue deployed · 73.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 12 of 12 board members independent · 7 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $6.4M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $131K · 16 people listed
- Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $1.8M reported
- Consistency: 32 of 32 current checks pass
- Schedules: 9 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2011 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 7 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 2 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 21/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 59/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 59/100.