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The Christian Broadcasting Network Inc

The christian broadcasting network's mission is preaching the gospel of jesus christ into all the world.

$28M
Granted FY2025still arriving
24
Grants FY2025still arriving
9
States reached
$11M
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, FY2017 to 2025.

International$116MReligion$5.0MEducation$3.2MHuman Services$2.0MPhilanthropy$1.9MHealth$1.6MArts & Culture$573kHousing & Shelter$221kOther$0
02FY2025 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 24 grants below total $12,112,547, the rows itemized in this filing. The $27,608,313 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $15,495,766 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $29k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $213k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $377k
  • $250k+3 grants · $11M
$25,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$268M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
OPERATION BLESSING International$10,870,425
REGENT UNIVERSITY$372,472
National Religious Broadcasters$250,000
HowtoLife Movement$82,000
United Way of South Hampton Roads$75,000
Christian International$70,000
Hampton Roads Community Action Program$50,000
National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference$50,000
Lifeline Int'l Christian Fellowship$50,000
LOOM INTERNATIONAL$33,725
Union Mission$25,375
Virginia Symphony Orchestra$25,000
United Jewish Foundaton of Tidewater$25,000
Christ For The Nations$20,000
New City Fellowship$19,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $1.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 45% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%DREAM CENTER FOUNDATION: $20k → 9%Elijah Rising: $49k → 16%BATTLEGROUND PERAZIM: $64k → 11%BELOVED ATLANTA: $50k → 14%THE SHEPHERD'S CROOK MINISTRIES: $12k → 12%Latisha's House Foundation: $50k → 7%MERCY CHEFS INC: $20k → 9%HOSPICE HOUSE OF HAMPTON ROADS: $500k → 10%VIRGINIA BEACH JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $26k → 14%MERCY CHEFS: $50k → 20%OPERATION CARE INC: $20k → 9%Elijah Rising: $35k → 16%Battleground Perazim: $38k → 11%THE SHEPHERD'S CROOK MINISTRIES: $12k → 12%Latisha's House Foundation: $49k → 7%VIRGINIA BEACH JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $25k → 14%MERCY CHEFS INC: $50k → 20%Elijah Rising: $12k → 16%BATTLEGROUND PERAZIM: $30k → 11%THE SHEPHERD'S CROOK MINISTRIES: $12k → 12%LATISHA'S HOUSE FOUNDATION: $48k → 7%FREEKIND: $24k → 14%ELIJAH RISING: $12k → 16%Her Song: $50k → 14%LATISHA'S HOUSE FOUNDATION: $45k → 7%VIRGINIA BEACH JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $24k → 14%ELIJAH RISING: $12k → 16%THE SHEPHERD'S CROOK MINISTRIES: $11k → 12%LATISHA'S HOUSE FOUNDATION: $37k → 7%FREEKIND: $19k → 14%ELIJAH RISING: $9k → 16%LATISHA'S HOUSE FOUNDATION: $36k → 7%LOVING & CARING FOR THE HOMELESS: $16k → 10%FREEKIND: $15k → 14%Latisha's House Foundation: $13k → 7%LOVING & CARING FOR THE HOMELESS: $16k → 10%VIRGINIA BEACH JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $11k → 14%Latisha's House Foundation: $10k → 7%LOVING & CARING FOR THE HOMELESS: $13k → 10%LOVING & CARING FOR THE HOMELESS: $11k → 10%GARDEN OF HOPE INC: $10k → 19%Garden of Hope Inc: $10k → 19%Garden of Hope Inc: $10k → 19%GARDEN OF HOPE INC: $10k → 19%Garden of Hope Inc: $10k → 19%GARDEN OF HOPE INC: $10k → 19%Garden of Hope Inc: $10k → 19%GARDEN OF HOPE INC: $10k → 19%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

NH
WA
IL
NY
OR
OH
PA
CA
CO
MO
KY
VA
MD
AZ
AR
TN
NC
SC
DC
OK
LA
GA
TX
FL

Grants abroad, by region: $15M on the FY2025 return

Schedule F, as filed: 9 regions, $11M to organizations and $4.0M to individuals. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

Middle East and North Africa$6.5M · 44% · 47 grants

Stated purpose: Israel Relief · Support of Israel · Christian Outreach

Russia and Neighboring States$2.4M · 16% · 34 grants

Stated purpose: Ukrainian Refugee Relief · Child Development in Armenia · Child Development in Moldova

East Asia and the Pacific$2.1M · 14% · 61 grants

Stated purpose: Missions · Humanitarian · Orphan Care

Sub-Saharan Africa$1.5M · 10% · 45 grants

Stated purpose: Christian Outreach · Humanitarian Relief · Child Development

Europe (including Iceland and Greenland)$1.2M · 8% · 31 grants

Stated purpose: Refugee Assistance · Child Development · Christian Broadcasting

Central America and the Caribbean$497k · 3% · 16 grants

Stated purpose: Christian Outreach · Child Development · Humanitarian

North America (Canada and Mexico)$444k · 3% · 21 grants

Stated purpose: Prison Outreach · Humanitarian · Support of Israel

South America$134k · 1% · 4 grants

Stated purpose: Christian Outreach · Child Development

South Asia$115k · 1% · 4 grants

Stated purpose: Humanitarian Relief · Child Development

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. 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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$128M · 55 repeat orgs$2.9M to everyone else

55 repeat relationships: 17 still active in FY2025, 38 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

55
52

Total granted

$128M
$2.7M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%
+20%

Still filing today

76%
62%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $276k 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
ReligionHuman ServicesInternationalArts & CultureHealthEducationOther
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

  • RU
    REGENT UNIVERSITY
    9× · 2017–2025 · $3.0M · revenue +54%
  • VS
    VIRGINIA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
    8× · 2017–2025 · $368k · revenue +18%
  • RR
    REBOOT RECOVERY INC
    4× · 2019–2023 · $301k · revenue +133%

Funded once

  • SH
    SENTARA HEALTHgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $750k · revenue +417%
  • HH
    HOSPICE HOUSE OF HAMPTON ROADS INC
    one grant, 2022 · $500k · revenue -3%
  • MC
    MORRIS CERULLO WORLD EVANGELISM
    one grant, 2020 · $100k
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.

1
Wounded Spirits Ministries

The focus of the ministry is to establish christian camps and retreats that will reach men and women who have been affected by post traumatic stress disorder with the gospel of jesus christ, and equip them to recognize, manage, and…

Recreation & Sports
2
Jesus in Vietnam Ministries
Religion
3
More International Ministries

To spread the gospel of jesus christ through crusades

Religion
4
House of Refuge Faith Based
Human Services
5
Fsi-Freedom Seekers International

Freedom seekers international is a christian organization that exists to rescue the most severely persecuted for their religious faith in hostile and restrictive countries. through collaborative partnerships we deliver those who are…

Human Services
6
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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7
Safe Haven Counseling Associates in

Biblical counseling

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8
Israel Restoration Ministries
Religion
9
Global Faith Network
Human Services
10
Jubal Band Ministries

Jubal band ministries mission is to invite people to become disciples of christian life with jesus.

Religion
11
Keith Wheeler Ministries Inc

Spread the gospel of jesus christ

Religion
12
International Impact Ministries in
Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Operation Care Inc; the most unlike its peers is All-in 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

86 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 86 of the 115 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.

9
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
27
Early backer (in before they grew)
81/86
Grantees still filing
50/86
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Operation Blessing International Relief and Development Corporation: $115,047,319 · InternationalOperation Blessing International Relief and Development Corporation+6 more: $428,323 · InternationalREGENT UNIVERSITY: $2,983,632 · OtherAIR MOBILE MINISTRIES: $209,327 · OtherJOY MINISTRIES EVANGELISTIC ASSOC: $197,193 · Other+56 more: $2,275,863 · OtherJESUS CALLS INTERNATIONAL INC: $2,435,000 · ReligionNational Religious Broadcasters: $291,531 · ReligionSOUL SURVIVOR OUTDOOR: $282,360 · ReligionSHIELD OF FAITH MISSIONS: $180,000 · Religion+16 more: $696,142 · ReligionUnited Way of South Hampton Roads: $1,925,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED JEWISH FEDERATION OF TIDEWATER: $400,500 · Philanthropy+1 more: $25,000 · PhilanthropyHOSPICE HOUSE OF HAMPTON ROADS INC: $500,000 · Human ServicesLatishas House Foundation: $287,700 · Human ServicesFREEKIND: $190,400 · Human ServicesElijah Rising: $143,000 · Human ServicesBattleground Perazim Combat Fit: $131,662 · Human ServicesMERCY CHEFS INC: $127,000 · Human ServicesTHE UNION MISSION: $110,375 · Human ServicesGARDEN OF HOPE INC: $80,000 · Human ServicesLOVE AND CARING FOR THE HOMELESS: $63,379 · Human Services+5 more: $192,800 · Human ServicesSENTARA HEALTH: $750,000 · HealthREBOOT RECOVERY INC: $301,000 · HealthMIGHTY OAKS FOUNDATION: $145,000 · HealthChildren's Hospital of the King's Daughters: $50,000 · Health+2 more: $32,000 · HealthVIRGINIA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $367,733 · Arts & CultureThe Man Called Jesus International Productions Inc: $180,000 · Arts & Culture+4 more: $57,000 · Arts & Culture
International$115,475,642Other$5,666,015Religion$3,885,033Philanthropy$2,350,500Human Services$1,826,316Health$1,278,000Arts & Culture$604,733

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetOperation Blessing International Relief and Development Corporation: $115,047,319 over 9y, 20% of budgetREGENT UNIVERSITY: $2,983,632 over 9y, 1.3% of budgetJESUS CALLS INTERNATIONAL INC: $2,435,000 over 3y, 99% of budgetUnited Way of South Hampton Roads: $1,925,000 over 9y, 1.6% of budgetSENTARA HEALTH: $750,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHOSPICE HOUSE OF HAMPTON ROADS INC: $500,000 over 1y, 23% of budgetUNITED JEWISH FEDERATION OF TIDEWATER: $400,500 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetVIRGINIA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $367,733 over 8y, 1.3% of budgetREBOOT RECOVERY INC: $301,000 over 4y, 6.5% of budgetNational Religious Broadcasters: $291,531 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetLatishas House Foundation: $287,700 over 8y, 14% of budgetSOUL SURVIVOR OUTDOOR: $282,360 over 3y, 32% of budgetJOY MINISTRIES EVANGELISTIC ASSOC: $197,193 over 7y, 2.6% of budgetFREEKIND: $190,400 over 9y, 10% of budgetThe Man Called Jesus International Productions Inc: $180,000 over 6y, 33% of budgetSHIELD OF FAITH MISSIONS: $180,000 over 4y, 7.2% of budgetWOMENS AND CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENT LOOM INTERNATIONAL: $174,323 over 8y, 22% of budgetMIGHTY OAKS FOUNDATION: $145,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetElijah Rising: $143,000 over 8y, 4.1% of budgetBattleground Perazim Combat Fit: $131,662 over 3y, 87% of budgetTHE WARRIOR'S JOURNEY: $128,342 over 2y, 11% of budgetMERCY CHEFS INC: $127,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetOPERATION SMILE INC: $125,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNeighborhood: $114,600 over 4y, 9.3% of budgetTHE UNION MISSION: $110,375 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetTHE CARING PEOPLE: $100,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetPAUL WILBUR MINISTRIES INC: $100,000 over 1y, 9.1% of budgetGOOD NEWS COMMUNICATIONS INC: $100,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetA FAMILY FOR EVERY ORPHAN: $85,000 over 3y, 6.5% of budgetHOWTOLIFE MOVEMENT: $82,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetGARDEN OF HOPE INC: $80,000 over 8y, 1.9% of budgetChristian Mens Network: $75,000 over 2y, 5.8% of budgetHARAMBEE YOUTH TRAINING CORPORATION: $74,400 over 4y, 3.9% of budgetENOUGH IS ENOUGH: $70,000 over 5y, 4.4% of budgetEAGLES WINGS INTERNATIONAL INC: $70,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetPARK PLACE SCHOOL INC: $70,000 over 7y, 2.5% of budgetLOVE AND CARING FOR THE HOMELESS: $63,379 over 5y, 30% of budgetTAYA AND CHRIS KYLE FOUNDATION SERVICE FAMILY STRONG: $60,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetLEMAN ACADEMY OF EXCELLENCE INC: $60,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCADENCE INTERNATIONAL: $57,655 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetKairos Freedom Schools of VA Inc: $55,000 over 5y, 35% of budgetTHE SHEPHERD'S CROOK MINISTRIES INC: $52,800 over 5y, 4.1% of budgetHAMPTON ROADS COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetISRAAID US GLOBAL HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetSAVE A CHILD'S HEART FOUNDATION US INC: $50,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetINTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIANS & JEWS INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHer Song Jacksonville Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetChildren's Hospital of the King's Daughters: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds Operation Blessing International Relief and Development Corporation ↗
  • Who funds REGENT UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds JESUS CALLS INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
  • Who funds United Way of South Hampton Roads ↗
  • Who funds SENTARA HEALTH ↗
  • Who funds HOSPICE HOUSE OF HAMPTON ROADS INC ↗
  • Who funds UNITED JEWISH FEDERATION OF TIDEWATER ↗
  • Who funds VIRGINIA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
  • Who funds REBOOT RECOVERY INC ↗
  • Who funds National Religious Broadcasters ↗
  • Who funds Latishas House Foundation ↗
  • Who funds SOUL SURVIVOR OUTDOOR ↗
  • Who funds JOY MINISTRIES EVANGELISTIC ASSOC ↗
  • Who funds FREEKIND ↗
  • Who funds The Man Called Jesus International Productions Inc ↗
  • Who funds SHIELD OF FAITH MISSIONS ↗
  • Who funds WOMENS AND CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENT LOOM INTERNATIONAL ↗
  • Who funds MIGHTY OAKS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Elijah Rising ↗
  • Who funds Battleground Perazim Combat Fit ↗
  • Who funds THE WARRIOR'S JOURNEY ↗
  • Who funds MERCY CHEFS INC ↗
  • Who funds OPERATION SMILE INC ↗
  • Who funds Neighborhood ↗
  • Who funds THE UNION MISSION ↗
  • Who funds THE CARING PEOPLE ↗
  • Who funds PAUL WILBUR MINISTRIES INC ↗
  • Who funds GOOD NEWS COMMUNICATIONS INC ↗
  • Who funds A FAMILY FOR EVERY ORPHAN ↗
  • Who funds HOWTOLIFE MOVEMENT ↗
  • Who funds GARDEN OF HOPE INC ↗
  • Who funds Christian Mens Network ↗
  • Who funds HARAMBEE YOUTH TRAINING CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds ENOUGH IS ENOUGH ↗

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.

Hampton Roads Communi…Sentara HealthUnited Way of South H…Dominion Energy Chari…Townebank FoundationServant FoundationThe Richard S Glasser…Christian Community F…Warden Family Foundat…The Overton Family Fo…The Landmark Foundati…Suffolk Foundation
Hampton Roads Community FoundationVA32.7× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Hampton Roads Community Foundation · Sentara Health · United Way of South Hampton Roads · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Townebank Foundation · Servant Foundation · The Richard S Glasser Family Foundation · Christian Community Foundation Inc · Warden Family Foundation · The Overton Family Foundation · The Landmark Foundation · Suffolk Foundation

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 The Christian Broadcasting Network Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Christian Broadcasting Network Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 80%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Oral Roberts University: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
8get no government money at all
16report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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 The Christian Broadcasting Network 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 115 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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