· Public charity
Cityserve International
The mission of CITYSERVE INTERNATIONAL is to train, equip and mobilize the local church to live out the gospel of jesus christ in its community through compassion.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k8 grants · $200k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $343k
- $250k+3 grants · $1.4M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CITYSERVE NETWORK | $633,748 |
| NEIGHBORHOODS TO NATIONS | $500,000 |
| SPOKES OF HOPE | $301,500 |
| NATIONAL FAITH ADVISORY BOARD | $115,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $70,000 |
| CANYON HILLS CHURCH | $54,000 |
| 180 DISASTER RELIEF | $53,500 |
| THE CITYSERVE FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| UNITED IN PURPOSE | $49,990 |
| AACC - AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF CHRISTIAN COUNSELORS | $43,516 |
| A21 USA | $30,000 |
| CHURCH OF HOPE | $25,000 |
| VOICE OF THE VETERAN | $16,673 |
| MEDIC CORPS | $15,000 |
| GIVING HOPE | $10,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $73k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 59% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
Grants abroad, by region: $402k on the FY2024 return
Schedule F, as filed: 2 regions. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.
Stated purpose: SUPPORT TO ESTABLISH CITYSERVE ISRAEL
Stated purpose: UKRAINE ORPHANAGE SUPPORT · UKRAINE CRISIS SUPPORT - BIBLICAL TEXT BILLBOARDS IN UKRAINE
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 29% of Cityserve International’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +20% since the first grant, against +8% for those funded once.
9 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $200k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- NTNeighborhoods to Nations4× · 2020–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +135% · 53% of their budget
- TATHE ARISE FOUNDATION2× · 2023–2024 · $312k · revenue +25%
- NCNo Child Hungry Inc2× · 2022–2023 · $245k · revenue +20%
Funded once
- CHCANYON HILLS ASSEMBLY OF GODone grant, 2018 · $500k
- SOSPOKES OF HOPEone grant, 2022 · $350k
- NYNEW YORK SCHOOL OF URBAN MINISTRY INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $256k · revenue +43%
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.
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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How this is measured
22 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. 22 of the 57 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
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- Who funds NEW YORK SCHOOL OF URBAN MINISTRY INC ↗
- Who funds No Child Hungry Inc ↗
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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: Servant Foundation · World Vision Inc · The Signatry Charitable Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Endowment Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Cityserve International funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Cityserve International. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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