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Christian Service Charities Inc

The mission of christian service charities (csc) is to glorify god by facilitating the inclusion of "christian charities you know and trust" in charitable giving opportunities.

$1.5M
Granted FY2021
38
Grants FY2021
16
States reached
$433k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2021.

International$1.6MReligion$859kHuman Services$391kHealth$136kFood & Nutrition$132kCrime & Legal$121kCivil Rights$82kArts & Culture$70kOther$0
02FY2021 · 38 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2021

  • Under $10k9 grants · $62k
  • $10k–50k23 grants · $556k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $456k
  • $250k+1 grant · $433k
$19,312
Median grant
16
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SAMARITAN'S PURSE$432,597
FOCUS ON THE FAMILY$147,376
VOICE OF THE MARTYRS$108,275
CHC CREATING HEALTHIER COMMUNITIES$97,456
INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSION$51,620
MERCY SHIPS$51,609
CHILDREN'S HUNGER RELIEF FUND$48,336
AMERICAN FAMILY ASSOCIATION$42,850
ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM$39,756
OUR DAILY BREAD MINISTRIES$38,846
PRISON FELLOWSHIP MINISTRIES$30,556
OFFICERS' CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP$29,933
MISSION AVIATION FELLOWSHIP$28,664
THE NAVIGATORS$27,202
AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY$26,848
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its human-services grants (FY19–21, $60k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 92% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%UNBOUND: $11k → 16%UNBOUND: $11k → 16%FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL: $17k → 14%FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL: $17k → 14%CITYGATE NETWORK: $5k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
ID
IL
MI
PA
CA
CO
MO
VA
AZ
KS
NC
SC
DC
OK
MS
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.0M · 34 repeat orgs$351k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +48% since the first grant, against -10% for those funded once.

34 repeat relationships: 34 still active in FY2021, 0 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

34
14

Total granted

$3.0M
$242k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+48%
-10%

Still filing today

71%
64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $109k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’21
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’21
ReligionInternationalHuman ServicesCivil RightsYouth DevelopmentCrime & LegalOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • SP
    SAMARITAN'S PURSE
    2× · 2019–2021 · $996k · revenue +151%
  • IJ
    INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSION
    2× · 2019–2021 · $130k · revenue +75%
  • Mercy Ships International
    2× · 2019–2021 · $108k · revenue +136%

Funded once

  • WB
    WYCLIFFE BIBLE TRANSLATORS INC
    one grant, 2019 · $68k
  • OB
    Operation Blessing International Relief and Development Corporation
    one grant, 2019 · $34k · revenue -33%
  • BG
    BILLY GRAHAM EVANGELISTIC ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2019 · $22k
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

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Christian Mission for the United Nations Community

Christian Mission for the United Nations Community is a ministry aimed at leading the head of every nation and other top leaders to faith in Jesus Christ and helping them to walk in dependence upon God as they discharge the…

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2
Christianity Today International

Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.

Religion
3
Mission Without Borders International

The organization is dedicated to reaching people for christ through an international network of christians who journey with the poor and marginalized, bringing practical and spiritual support with hope of a better future,(continued on…

International
4
Youth for Christ International Ministries

As part of the body of Christ, to see that every young person in every people group in every nation has the opportunity to make an informed decision to be a follower of Jesus Christ and become a part of the local church.

Religion
5
World Christian Broadcasting Corporation

World christian broadcasting exists so that people in places best served by broadcast media become aware of the good news of jesus christ and want to know more. geographic areas that cannot be easily served by missionaries are a priority.

Arts & Culture
6
Serving Beyond Borders

Serving and pastoring overseas workers on their own turf and equipping nationals by training and empowering them in their work of advancing the gospel.

Human Services
7
Global City Missions Initiative Incorporated

Global City Mission Initiative is dedicated to cross-cultural evanglism, disciplemaking, church planting among diverse diaspora populations in strategic cities reaching out evangelistically to start multiply churches, training believers to…

Religion
8
Global Media Outreach

Leveraging technology to invite all people to know jesus christ as savior and grow in a personal relationship with him.

Religion
9
Jewish Voice Ministries Intl

To proclaim the gospel, grow the messianic jewish community and engage the church concerning israel and the jewish people. this is done through education, evangelism and being a movement leader, all with excellence in order to transform…

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10
Leadership Resources International

International missions: this organization is an international mission agency focusing on leadership development through teaching of the scriptures

Religion
11
Global Outreach International Inc

To get the good news to every nation this generation by showing and sharing god's love by providing opportunities and supporting christian missionaries in over fifty seven countries around the world.

International
12
Christian Freedom International Inc

Christian freedom international (cfi) aids, equips, and advocates for persecuted christians who are oppressed or persecuted for their faith. cfi provides spiritual and physical help for suffering christians to live in the dignity of god's…

Civil Rights
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Water Missions International; the most unlike its peers is World Emergency Relief. 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

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

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 43 of the 54 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
38/43
Grantees still filing
28/43
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SAMARITAN'S PURSE: $995,527 · ReligionSAMARITAN'S PURSEAMERICAN FAMILY ASSOCIATION INC: $94,399 · ReligionAMERICAN FAMILY ASSOCIATION INCRBC MINISTRIES: $66,960 · ReligionOFFICERS CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP OF THE UNITED: $66,284 · ReligionNAZARENE COMPASSIONATE MINISTRIES INC: $50,903 · ReligionAMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY: $48,160 · Religion+5 more: $78,079 · Religion+5 moreFOCUS ON THE FAMILY: $348,190 · OtherFOCUS ON THE FAMILYVOICE OF THE MARTYRS INC: $242,457 · OtherVOICE OF THE MARTYRS INCCHC CREATING HEALTHIER COMMUNITIES: $97,456 · OtherCHC CREATING HEALTHIER COMMUNITIESCHILDRENS HUNGER RELIEF FUND INC: $81,347 · OtherCHILDRENS HUNGER RELIEF FUND INCMISSION AVIATION FELLOWSHIP: $70,075 · OtherMISSION AVIATION FELLOWSHIPWYCLIFFE BIBLE TRANSLATORS INC: $67,509 · OtherTHE NAVIGATORS: $51,827 · OtherTHE GREAT COMMISSION FOUNDATION OF CAMPUS CRUSADE FOR CHRIST INC: $49,289 · Other+15 more: $262,220 · Other+15 moreINTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSION: $129,727 · InternationalINTERNATIONAL J…Mercy Ships International: $108,087 · InternationalMercy Ships Int…WORLD EMERGENCY RELIEF: $44,318 · InternationalWORLD EMERGENCY…KIDS FOR THE KINGDOM INC: $37,254 · InternationalKIDS FOR THE KI…Operation Blessing International Relief and Development Corporation: $33,646 · InternationalOperation Bless…WATER MISSIONS INTERNATIONAL: $33,041 · InternationalWATER MISSIONS …FOOD FOR THE HUNGRY INC: $28,678 · InternationalFOOD FOR THE HU…THE CHRISTIAN RELIEF FUND: $25,135 · InternationalCONVOY OF HOPE: $25,117 · International+2 more: $11,790 · InternationalALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM: $69,799 · Civil RightsCare Net: $38,996 · Civil RightsFAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL: $33,770 · Human ServicesUnbound: $21,437 · Human ServicesLIFELINE GLOBAL MINISTRIES: $15,784 · Human ServicesAssociation of Gospel Rescue Missions: $5,064 · Human ServicesPRISON FELLOWSHIP MINISTRIES: $60,582 · Crime & LegalYOUNG LIFE: $21,460 · Youth DevelopmentCHILD EVANGELISM FELLOWSHIP INC: $6,310 · Youth Development
Religion$1,400,312Other$1,270,370International$476,793Civil Rights$108,795Human Services$76,055Crime & Legal$60,582Youth Development$27,770

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $995,527 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetINTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSION: $129,727 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMercy Ships International: $108,087 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCHC CREATING HEALTHIER COMMUNITIES: $97,456 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetAMERICAN FAMILY ASSOCIATION INC: $94,399 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM: $69,799 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetRBC MINISTRIES: $66,960 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetOFFICERS CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP OF THE UNITED: $66,284 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetPRISON FELLOWSHIP MINISTRIES: $60,582 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNAZARENE COMPASSIONATE MINISTRIES INC: $50,903 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetAMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY: $48,160 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD EMERGENCY RELIEF: $44,318 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCHRISTIAN MILITARY FELLOWSHIP: $40,548 over 2y, 6.1% of budgetCare Net: $38,996 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetKIDS FOR THE KINGDOM INC: $37,254 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetFAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL: $33,770 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetOperation Blessing International Relief and Development Corporation: $33,646 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWATER MISSIONS INTERNATIONAL: $33,041 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFOOD FOR THE HUNGRY INC: $28,678 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHOME SCHOOL LEGAL DEFENSE ASSOCIATION: $26,741 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe New Horizons Foundation Inc: $25,737 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SOCIETY OF ST ANDREW INC: $25,608 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CHRISTIAN RELIEF FUND: $25,135 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCONVOY OF HOPE: $25,117 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYOUNG LIFE: $21,460 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUnbound: $21,437 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Moody Bible Institute of Chicago: $18,382 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCADENCE INTERNATIONAL: $17,441 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetENGINEERING MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL USA: $16,454 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetChristian Legal Society: $14,762 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetMILITARY COMMUNITY YOUTH MINISTRIES: $14,557 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetThe Christian Broadcasting Network Inc: $14,088 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCRISTA Ministries: $11,709 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHRISTIAN SERVICE CHARITIES INC: $9,388 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetChildcare Worldwide: $6,539 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCHILD EVANGELISM FELLOWSHIP INC: $6,310 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROMISE KEEPERS: $6,278 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetJAARS INC: $6,183 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE AMEN FOUNDATION: $5,456 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetAssociation of Gospel Rescue Missions: $5,064 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

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

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Chc Creating Healthie…Christian Community F…Servant FoundationNeighbor to NationNatl Christian Charit…The Signatry Charitab…Shell USA Company Fou…Greater HorizonsBarnabas FoundationJpmorgan Chase Founda…The Blackbaud Giving …Morgan Stanley Global…
Chc Creating Healthier CommunitiesVA32.1× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Chc Creating Healthier Communities · Christian Community Foundation Inc · Servant Foundation · Neighbor to Nation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Signatry Charitable Trust · Shell USA Company Foundation · Greater Horizons · Barnabas Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Christian Service Charities Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Christian Service Charities Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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    Find your warmest path to Christian Service Charities 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 54 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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