Illinois · Nonprofit
CAMPUS EVANGELICAL FELLOWSHIP INC
CAMPUS EVANGELICAL FELLOWSHIP INC (Illinois) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,868,744 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($4,540,750). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 96% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $597k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $4.9M
- Net assets
- $3.6M
What Campus Evangelical Fellowship Inc does
Mission
We preach the gospel of christ to chinese intellectuals, build up the spiritual life of chinese christians, provide training for campus ministry workers, and instill the vision of evangelizing chinese intellectuals and mobilizing chinese for world evangelism.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Support of campus evangelical movement among chinese students and graduates. Among our worldwide evangelistic and discipleship training activities, we provide grants to our partners in taiwan ministries.in 2024, cef-taiwan supported over 200 student campus fellowships, including many ministries and camps. (continued on schedule o)the three major camps of cef-taiwan are described as follows: 1. A total of 1,468 high school and middle school students and volunteers participated in gospel training camps, volunteer service teams, special training camps, and disciple training camps for a total of 23 camps and teams.2. A total of 3,090 college and graduate students, counselors and teachers participated bible study camps, training camp, growth camp, cross culture team camp, college volunteer service team, creative gospel team, and conventions for a total of 30 camps and teams.3. A total of 43,489 people participated in student ministries meetings and training programs at the headquarter office building venues held during 2,804 sessions.
$590,000 spentof which $590,000 as grants97% of program spendingThe europe mission project began in 2022. In 2025, a two-month mission trip was arranged to visit six countries, thirteen cities and minister to more than 20 groups. A five week short term mission trip was arranged to visit 12 churches and bible study groups, and conduct preaching, training and counseling.online ministry efforts continued with:1) leading systematic bible study twice a wekk.2) traing how to lead bible study, how to teach sunday school, and how to preach.
$16,057 spent3% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $606,057.
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 2021 to 2022, from $636k to $3.5M (+447%).
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.
79% of CAMPUS EVANGELICAL FELLOWSHIP INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $252k → $3.1M.
3 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 96% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of CAMPUS EVANGELICAL FELLOWSHIP INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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
CAMPUS EVANGELICAL FELLOWSHIP INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 93% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
96% 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 CAMPUS EVANGELICAL FELLOWSHIP INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 88% · 2018 89% · 2019 96% · 2020 92% · 2021 86% · 2022 89% · 2023 98% — growing more concentrated.
“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
67% of CAMPUS EVANGELICAL FELLOWSHIP INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 75% 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
96% of CAMPUS EVANGELICAL FELLOWSHIP INC'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 $218k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Illinois, across 2 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.7M arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
CAMPUS EVANGELICAL FELLOWSHIP INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 7,334 religion nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,334 religion nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like CAMPUS EVANGELICAL FELLOWSHIP INC
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
97% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
31%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CAMPUS EVANGELICAL FELLOWSHIP INC?
- CAMPUS EVANGELICAL FELLOWSHIP INC (Illinois) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,868,744 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($4,540,750). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 96% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does CAMPUS EVANGELICAL FELLOWSHIP INC have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $4,868,744 in grants to CAMPUS EVANGELICAL FELLOWSHIP INC, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CAMPUS EVANGELICAL FELLOWSHIP INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $4,540,750 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CAMPUS EVANGELICAL FELLOWSHIP INC 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.
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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 8 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing