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Christian Relief Services Inc

The purpose of christian relief services is to provide funding, services and critically needed goods to help people in communities striving to break the stranglehold of poverty and to help develop and implement sustainable solutions to the needs of these communities.

$39M
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$3.3M
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 FY20172025.

Human Services$32MInternational$14MPublic Safety & Disaster$337kHousing & Shelter$30kCivil Rights$17k
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 4 grants below total $6,520,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $38,619,394 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $32,099,394 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.

$1,900,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AMERICAN INDIAN YOUTH RUNNING STRONG INC$3,300,000
CHRISTIAN RELIEF SERVICES CHARITIES$1,900,000
AMERICANS HELPING AMERICANS$820,000
BREAD AND WATER FOR AFRICA$500,000
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 (FY17–25, $31.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%AMERICAN INDIAN YOUTH RUNNING STRONG: $5.6M → 6%AMERICAN INDIAN YOUTH RUNNING STRONG: $4.3M → 6%AMERICAN INDIAN YOUTH RUNNING STRONG INC: $4.0M → 6%AMERICAN INDIAN YOUTH RUNNING STRONG INC: $3.3M → 6%AMERICAN INDIAN YOUTH RUNNING STRONG: $2.2M → 6%AMERICAN INDIAN YOUTH RUNNING STRONG: $2.1M → 6%AMERICAN INDIAN YOUTH RUNNING STRONG: $1.8M → 6%AMERICAN INDIAN YOUTH RUNNING STRONG: $1.5M → 6%AMERICAN INDIAN YOUTH RUNNING STRONG: $1.5M → 6%AMERICANS HELPING AMERICANS: $950k → 6%AMERICANS HELPING AMERICANS: $820k → 6%AMERICANS HELPING AMERICANS: $820k → 6%AMERICANS HELPING AMERICANS: $800k → 6%AMERICANS HELPING AMERICANS: $680k → 6%AMERICANS HELPING AMERICANS: $400k → 6%AMERICANS HELPING AMERICANS: $260k → 6%AMERICANS HELPING AMERICANS: $240k → 6%AMERICANS HELPING AMERICANS: $157k → 6%UNITED COMMUNITY MINISTRIES: $61k → 6%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.

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.

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.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$47M · 8 repeat orgs$151k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +43% since the first grant, against +4% for the ones you funded once.

8 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
5

Total granted

$47M
$151k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%
+4%

Still filing today

63%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
InternationalHuman ServicesHousing & ShelterPublic Safety & DisasterOther

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

  • AI
    AMERICAN INDIAN YOUTH RUNNING STRONG INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $26M · revenue +162% · 59% of their budget
  • CR
    CHRISTIAN RELIEF SERVICES CHARITIES INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $11M · revenue +24% · 91% of their budget
  • AH
    AMERICANS HELPING AMERICANS INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $5.1M · revenue +209% · 46% of their budget

Funded once

  • UC
    UNITED COMMUNITY MINISTRIES INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $61k · revenue +36%
  • CM
    CATHOLIC MEDICAL MISSION BOARD INC
    one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue -32%
  • CR
    CHRISTIAN RELIEF SERVICES CHARITIES INC
    one grant, 2021 · $20k

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.

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Christian Relief Services Inc

The purpose of christian relief services is to provide funding, services and critically needed goods to help people in communities striving to break the stranglehold of poverty and to help develop and implement sustainable solutions to the…

International
2
Christian Relief Services Charities Inc Group Return

To provide and directly manage affordable housing to very low and moderate-income persons; supportive permanent housing for chronically mentally ill adults; and housing for homeless families and individuals.

Housing & Shelter
3
Christian Relief Services 21ST Century Campaign Inc

The purpose of christian relief services/21st century campaign, inc. (crs-21st) is to exist as a 509(a)(3) supporting organization of the exempt activities of christian relief services charities, inc., (crsc), which is a 501(c)(3) with an…

Religion
4
The Children's Mission Dba Malawi Children's Mission

The purpose of 'the children's mission' is to (1) educate the international community about the physical, educational and emotional needs of orphans and vulnerable children in malawi, africa; (2) raise funds to meet those needs; and (3)…

International
5
Ummah Relief International

Ummah relief international is a dedicated grassroots relief organization providing humanitarian services to bring help and hope to thousands of victims of natural and human disasters with quick and targeted action.

International
6
Humanitarian Aid Relief Team

Providing humanitarian medical/surgical outreach missions to targeted international communities in developing countries.

International
7
Relief International Inc

Relief international (ri) partners with communities impacted by conflict, climate change, and disaster to save lives, build greater resilience, and promote long-term health and wellbeing of people in the communities that we serve. relief…

International
8
Health Care Without Harm

The mission of health care without harm (hcwh) is to transform health care worldwide so that it reduces its environmental footprint, becomes a community anchor for sustainability and a leader in the global movement for environmental health…

Environment
9
International Biomedical Research Alliance

Our mission is to invest in and accelerate the development of the most promising future leaders in biomedical research with global impact.

Health
10
Impact Community Action Partnership Inc

Reducing the barriers and burdens that families in poverty experience by increasing access to essential needs.

11
Us Digital Response

U.s. digital response is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that helps governments, nonprofits, and public entities respond quickly to critical public needs. the organization serves the public by leveraging a network of pro bono…

Public Safety & Disaster
12
Habitat for Humanity of Orange County Inc

Habitat for humanity's mission is to give witness to the christian gospel by working with god's people to build decent habitats for those who are inadequately sheltered in orange county.

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Americans Helping Americans Inc and the most unlike its peers is United Community Ministries Inc. 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

9 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. 9 of the 13 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
6/9
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

AMERICAN INDIAN YOUTH RUNNING STRONG INC — $26,378,000 · Human ServicesAMERICAN INDIAN YOUTH RUNNING STRONG INCAMERICANS HELPING AMERICANS INC — $5,126,813 · Human ServicesAMERICANS HELPING AMERICANS INC+1 more — $61,055 · Human ServicesCHRISTIAN RELIEF SERVICES CHARITIES INC — $10,854,172 · InternationalCHRISTIAN RELIEF SERVICES CHARITIE…BREAD AND WATER FOR AFRICA INC — $3,458,500 · InternationalBREAD AND WATER FOR AFRICA INC+2 more — $77,000 · InternationalCHRISTIAN RELIEF SERVICES CHARITIES INC — $352,182 · OtherCHRISTIAN RELIEF SERVIES OF VRIGININA — $310,000 · Other+2 more — $37,000 · OtherRebuilding TogetherArlingtonFairfax Falls Church Inc — $10,000 · Housing & ShelterCORE COMMUNITY ORGANIZED RELIEF EFFORT — $10,000 · Public Safety & Disaster
Human Services$31,565,868International$14,389,672Other$699,182Housing & Shelter$10,000Public Safety & Disaster$10,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetAMERICAN INDIAN YOUTH RUNNING STRONG INC — $26,378,000 over 9y, 59% of budgetCHRISTIAN RELIEF SERVICES CHARITIES INC — $10,854,172 over 8y, 91% of budgetAMERICANS HELPING AMERICANS INC — $5,126,813 over 9y, 46% of budgetBREAD AND WATER FOR AFRICA INC — $3,458,500 over 9y, 2.5% of budgetUNITED COMMUNITY MINISTRIES INC — $61,055 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetCATHOLIC MEDICAL MISSION BOARD INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOUR AIM FOUNDATION INC — $27,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetCORE COMMUNITY ORGANIZED RELIEF EFFORT — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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 AMERICAN INDIAN YOUTH RUNNING STRONG INC
  • Who funds CHRISTIAN RELIEF SERVICES CHARITIES INC
  • Who funds AMERICANS HELPING AMERICANS INC
  • Who funds BREAD AND WATER FOR AFRICA INC
  • Who funds UNITED COMMUNITY MINISTRIES INC
  • Who funds CATHOLIC MEDICAL MISSION BOARD INC
  • Who funds OUR AIM FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds Rebuilding TogetherArlingtonFairfax Falls Church Inc
  • Who funds CORE COMMUNITY ORGANIZED RELIEF EFFORT

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.

Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 Relief Services Inc 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 · 10%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    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.

    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Christian Relief Services Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Christian Relief Services Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 13 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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