Staff Contact

Contact Barbara Brower, director of finance and administration, for information about the Minnesota Annual Conference budget.

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2018 Apportioned Budget

Members of the 2017 Annual Conference Session voted on June 22, 2017 to approve a 2018 apportioned budget totaling $6,177,090. That amount represents a 1.2 percent increase over the 2017 apportioned budget. The apportioned budget may be increased by no more than 3 percent over the previous year’s budget under a new budget ceiling rule approved at last year’s Annual Conference.

With an “uncollectible contingency” of $725,000, the total amount to be apportioned in 2018 is $6,902,090. The uncollectible contingency accommodates anticipated shortfalls in some churches’ apportionment payments.

Apportionments are the share each annual conference or local church pays to support international, national, and local missions. Some of the funds remitted by Minnesota congregations stay within the state and help fund various Minnesota Conference programs and mission efforts, and about a quarter of the funds remitted by local churches go to the global United Methodist Church. Apportionments also pay for the internal support system that allows for 100 percent of “second-mile” giving (to Imagine No Malaria and other Advance Specials) to go to the intended mission or ministry.

The areas of the budget, and the 2018 apportioned amount budgeted for each, are:
• Developing missional leaders: $1,031,407
• Equipping missional congregations: $820,726
• Extending missional impact: $1,982,951
• Generating missional resources: $269,788
• Aligning our work: Leadership of the annual conference: $907,488
• Aligning our work: Support of the annual conference: $1,164,730
• Uncollectible contingency (under direction of the Council of Finance and Administration): $725,000

Download full 2018 budget report

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Budget and Ceiling History

Each year, there is a budget “ceiling,” or maximum allowed under conference standing rules. Here's a look at past budget and ceiling amounts (before adding the uncollectible contingency).

Year	Ceiling	Approved Budget	Budget Over/(Under) Ceiling
2018	$6,289,653	$6,177,090	$(112,563)
2017	$5,996,911	$6,106,460	$109,549
2016	$6,034,234	$6,120,770	$86,536
2015	$6,434,050	$6,000,008	$(434,042)
2014	$6,251,009	$6,247,960	$(3,049)
2013	$6,236,788	$6,236,788	$0
2012	$6,309,699	$6,367,332	$57,633
2011	$6,736,270	$6,542,436	$(193,834)
2010	$6,710,458	$6,690,241	$(20,217)
2009	$6,674,295	$6,518,550	$(155,745)
2008	$7,255,937	$6,498,600	$(757,337)
2007	$7,038,344	$7,027,040	$(11,304)
2006	$6,881,630	$6,864,044	$(17,586)
Pre-2006	Average Ceiling	Average Budget	Average Over/(Under) Ceiling
2000-2005	$6,158,000	$6,088,000	$(70,000)