Indiana · Public charity
Church World Service Inc
Church world service, inc. Is a private, voluntary faith-based organization with 37 member communions that transformscommunities around the globe through just and sustainable responses to hunger, poverty, displacement and disaster.
- $134M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 104
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 95
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 15%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $60M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $12,606
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $6,112,136
- Organizations funded a year
- 93 to 121
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 34
- Total assets, FY2025
- $76M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 15% of the organizations Church World Service Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $669k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 103 | $59M | 26% |
| FY2024 | 95 | $58M | 15% |
| FY2023 | 120 | $43M | 21% |
| FY2022 | 118 | $38M | 31% |
| FY2021 | 109 | $11M | 27% |
| FY2020 | 121 | $13M | 35% |
| FY2019 | 93 | $13M | 19% |
| FY2018 | 108 | $14M | 25% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Opening Doors Inc | $26,031,177 | 9 | 55% |
| Kentucky Refugee Ministries Inc | $24,869,977 | 9 | 32% |
| New American Pathways Inc | $20,564,688 | 9 | 41% |
| Integrated Refugee and Immigrant Services | $18,262,539 | 6 | 33% |
| Refugee Services of Texas Inc | $16,381,955 | 7 | 17% |
| Refugeeone | $14,698,376 | 9 | 28% |
| St Thomas University Inc | $7,299,865 | 8 | 4% |
| Youth Co-Op Inc | $5,781,873 | 6 | 4% |
| Exodus Refugee Immigration Inc | $5,229,707 | 1 | n/a |
| Lutheran Family Services of Ne Inc | $4,658,943 | 1 | n/a |
Show all 215 grantees
Plus 117 recipients with no EIN on record ($79M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Church World Service Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 15 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 158 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: International Rescue Committee INC · US Committee for Refugees and Immigrants Inc · Save The Children Federation Inc · Fwdus Education Fund Inc · The Cannon Foundation Inc · Hispanics in Philanthropy · National Partnership for New Americans · United Way of Greater Houston · The Shapiro Foundation · Houston Immigration Legal ServicesCollab · North Carolina Community Foundation · Spartannash Foundation
How this is measured
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About Church World Service Inc
- How much does Church World Service Inc give?
- Church World Service Inc reported 104 itemized grants totaling $59,530,166, out of $134,496,301 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 93 and 121 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Church World Service Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (67%), Religion (17%), Housing & Shelter (4%).
- Who are Church World Service Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Opening Doors Inc ($26M), Kentucky Refugee Ministries Inc ($25M), New American Pathways Inc ($21M).
- Does Church World Service Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 15% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Church World Service Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include International Rescue Committee INC, US Committee for Refugees and Immigrants Inc, Save The Children Federation Inc.
- Where is Church World Service Inc based?
- Church World Service Inc is based in IN.
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