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Christian Aid Ministries

CAMs primary purpose is to provide a trustworthy and efficient channel for Amish, Mennonite, and other conservative Anabaptist groups and individuals to minister to physical and spiritual needs around the world.

$107M
Granted FY2024still arriving
5
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$466k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Religion$1.9MInternational$760kHuman Services$283kPublic Safety & Disaster$126k
02FY2024 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 5 grants below total $1,130,523 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $107,098,011 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $105,967,488 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $50k–250k3 grants · $365k
  • $250k+2 grants · $766k
$135,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$123M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Christian Aid Ministries Foundation$465,523
Living Word Believers Church$300,000
All Nations Bible Translators$135,000
ARC Ministry$130,000
Streetlight Christian Ministry$100,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY23–24, $247k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%ARC Ministry: $130k → 19%ARC Ministry: $117k → 19%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

NY
OH
PA
CA
MO
AR
OK
TX

Grants abroad, by region — $104M on the FY2024 return

Schedule F, as filed: 9 regions, $96M to organizations and $8.5M to individuals. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

Sub-Saharan Africa$22M · 21% · 181 grants · 62053 people

Stated purpose: Aid to poor

Europe (including Iceland and Greenland)$20M · 20% · 160 grants · 36349 people

Stated purpose: Aid to poor

Middle East and North Africa$20M · 20% · 30 grants · 1437 people

Stated purpose: Aid to poor · Aid for poor

Russia and Neighboring States$15M · 14% · 323 grants · 54963 people

Stated purpose: Aid to poor · Aid for poor · Education

South Asia$12M · 12% · 12 grants

Stated purpose: Aid to poor

Central America and the Caribbean$10M · 10% · 47 grants · 41449 people

Stated purpose: Aid to poor

East Asia and the Pacific$1.7M · 2% · 9 grants

Stated purpose: Aid to poor

South America$1.4M · 1% · 4 grants

Stated purpose: Aid to poor

North America (Canada and Mexico)$432k · 0% · 3 grants

Stated purpose: Aid to poor

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.4M · 4 repeat orgs$188k to everyone else

4 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
7

Total granted

$2.4M
$188k

Still filing today

75%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
ReligionHuman ServicesOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • AB
    ALL-NATIONS BIBLE TRANSLATION INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +189% · 36% of their budget
  • LW
    Living Word Believers Church
    3× · 2022–2024 · $760k
  • AM
    ARC MINISTRY INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $247k · revenue -21%

Funded once

  • OK
    One Kingdom Community
    one grant, 2020 · $50k
  • LI
    Life in Christ Mennonite
    one grant, 2020 · $36k
  • BM
    BOLEY MENNONITE CHURCH
    one grant, 2023 · $36k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Christian Ministries International
2
Christian Literature for Africa

Literature for africa

Religion
3
Arrow Creek International Ministrie Stands Over Bull
Religion
4
Barnabas Leadership Ministries

Ministry

5
Christian Lingua Services
Religion
6
American Christian Ministries

Religious ministry

7
More International Ministries

To spread the gospel of jesus christ through crusades

Religion
8
House of Prayer for All Nations

Church ministry

Religion
9
Spiritual Light Ministries
Religion
10
Prepare the Way Ministry

Education, Humanitarian, Community outreach and evangelism ministry. Provide Orphan Care, Train Youth in Career Paths, Train Pastors and Others in Bible School, Prison Ministry, Provide Elementary School for about 300 Children

International
11
International Christian Publishers

Religious corp, charitable, educational and cultural, conduct all activities relate to publishingchristian literature

Religion
12
Abbas House
Philanthropy

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Streetlight Christian Ministries and the most unlike its peers is Urban Lighthouse Ministries. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

8 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 12 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
4/8
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

ALL-NATIONS BIBLE TRANSLATION INC — $1,222,382 · ReligionALL-NATIONS BIBLE TRANSLATION INCChristian Aid Ministries Foundation — $465,523 · ReligionChristian Aid Ministries FoundationSTREETLIGHT CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES — $195,850 · ReligionSTREETLIGHT CHRISTIAN MINISTRIESLiving Word Believers Church — $760,000 · OtherLiving Word Believers ChurchOne Kingdom Community — $50,000 · OtherLife in Christ Mennonite — $36,000 · OtherBOLEY MENNONITE CHURCH — $35,892 · OtherVerrazano Fellowship — $34,250 · Other+3 more — $32,000 · OtherARC MINISTRY INC — $246,900 · Human ServicesARC MINIS…
Religion$1,883,755Other$948,142Human Services$246,900

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetALL-NATIONS BIBLE TRANSLATION INC — $1,222,382 over 8y, 36% of budgetChristian Aid Ministries Foundation — $465,523 over 1y, 6.0% of budgetARC MINISTRY INC — $246,900 over 2y, 23% of budgetSTREETLIGHT CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES — $195,850 over 2y, 36% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds ALL-NATIONS BIBLE TRANSLATION INC
  • Who funds Christian Aid Ministries Foundation
  • Who funds ARC MINISTRY INC
  • Who funds STREETLIGHT CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Anabaptist FoundationPA41.1× affinity18 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Anabaptist Foundation · Christian Aid Ministries Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Christian Aid Ministries funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 12 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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