Illinois · Nonprofit
AWANA CLUBS INTERNATIONAL AND AFFILIATES
AWANA CLUBS INTERNATIONAL AND AFFILIATES (Illinois) receives grants from 69 organizations whose IRS filings report $17,656,426 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($6,650,255). 34 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 68% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $26M
- Funders on record
- 69
- Grants received
- $18M
- Net assets
- $10M
What Awana Clubs International and Affiliates does
Mission
The vision of awana is that all children and youth throughout the world will come to know, love, and serve the lord jesus christ. The mission of awana is to equip leaders to reach children and youth with the gospel and engage them in lifelong discipleship.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Awana is a worldwide nonprofit ministry focused on providing bible-based evangelism and discipleship solutions for ages 2 to 18. As the global leader in child and youth discipleship, awana gives children the opportunity to know, love and serve jesus, no matter their background. Today, this ministry is taking place in more than 140 countries through 101,000 clubs, reaching over 10.6 million children with lasting faith.
$19,196,809 spentof which $4,565,262 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $19,196,809.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $16M to $13M (−16%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 13% · 2022 8% · 2023 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
60% of AWANA CLUBS INTERNATIONAL AND AFFILIATES’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (84% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Board chair
Christopher Williams
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 11 funders to 27 funders, grant income rose $543k → $3.8M.
20 of 69 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 68% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $250k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Awana Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money AWANA CLUBS INTERNATIONAL AND AFFILIATES raised.
From the IRS filings of AWANA CLUBS INTERNATIONAL AND AFFILIATES’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 69 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
AWANA CLUBS INTERNATIONAL AND AFFILIATES has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 38% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
72% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund AWANA CLUBS INTERNATIONAL AND AFFILIATES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 52% · 2018 77% · 2019 40% · 2020 47% · 2021 24% · 2022 55% · 2023 28% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
50% of AWANA CLUBS INTERNATIONAL AND AFFILIATES's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 49% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
68% of AWANA CLUBS INTERNATIONAL AND AFFILIATES's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $5.7M that is directly attributable, 98% of it comes from funders outside Illinois, across 22 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $12M arriving through sponsors registered in 17 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
AWANA CLUBS INTERNATIONAL AND AFFILIATES receives grants from 69 organizations whose IRS filings report $18M to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 127 religion nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding AWANA CLUBS INTERNATIONAL AND AFFILIATES receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $10k on record.
- Department of Defense$10k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like AWANA CLUBS INTERNATIONAL AND AFFILIATES
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
73% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 20 states
Part of a family of 3 related entities
- Awana International LLC · disregarded
- Awana Foundation · exempt
- Charitable Remainder Trust (1) · corp_trust
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for AWANA CLUBS INTERNATIONAL AND AFFILIATES: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds AWANA CLUBS INTERNATIONAL AND AFFILIATES?
- AWANA CLUBS INTERNATIONAL AND AFFILIATES (Illinois) receives grants from 69 organizations whose IRS filings report $17,656,426 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($6,650,255). 34 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 68% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does AWANA CLUBS INTERNATIONAL AND AFFILIATES have?
- IRS filings report 69 organizations giving $17,656,426 in grants to AWANA CLUBS INTERNATIONAL AND AFFILIATES, 34 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AWANA CLUBS INTERNATIONAL AND AFFILIATES?
- NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC is the largest funder on record, with $6,650,255 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AWANA CLUBS INTERNATIONAL AND AFFILIATES find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 69 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing