Maryland · Nonprofit
CENTER FOR CHRISTIANITY AND PUBLIC LIFE
CENTER FOR CHRISTIANITY AND PUBLIC LIFE (Maryland) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,113,072 to it, the largest being The Henry Luce Foundation Inc ($300,000). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.8M
- Funders on record
- 18
- Grants received
- $2.1M
- Net assets
- $1.6M
What Center for Christianity and Public Life does
Mission
To contend for the credibility of christian resources in public life, for the public good.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Christian civic formation and public imagination: the Center for Christianity and Public Life advances its mission by offering christian resources to civic leaders through two complementary streams of work: christian civic formation and public imagination. Ccpl's leading programs include it's annual summit, for the good of the public, which is the premier national event for civic leaders interested in the future of faith and american public life; the public life fellowship program, a 9-month intensive fellowship for established, service-oriented christian civic leaders where they gain knowledge, relationships and a cultivated imagination for how christian resources can advance the public good; and public good generation, a summer civics program for high school students interested in public service that draws on the resources of their faith. Through ccpl's public imagination work and research think tank, the orginization develops and distributes orginal and existing ideas, practices and models to guide public decision-making.
$1,159,175 spent$61,260 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,159,175.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 $306k to $1.4M (+367%).
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.
96% of CENTER FOR CHRISTIANITY AND PUBLIC LIFE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (90% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 4 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
James Catford
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 12 funders, grant income rose $25k → $475k.
5 of 18 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 17% 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 CENTER FOR CHRISTIANITY AND PUBLIC LIFE’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
CENTER FOR CHRISTIANITY AND PUBLIC LIFE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 14% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2022 29% · 2023 21% — 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.
Where its funders are
CENTER FOR CHRISTIANITY AND PUBLIC LIFE draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Maryland, across 9 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $359k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
CENTER FOR CHRISTIANITY AND PUBLIC LIFE has grown faster than three-quarters of the 1,325 religion nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,325 religion nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like CENTER FOR CHRISTIANITY AND PUBLIC LIFE
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 Maryland
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
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CENTER FOR CHRISTIANITY AND PUBLIC LIFE: 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 CENTER FOR CHRISTIANITY AND PUBLIC LIFE?
- CENTER FOR CHRISTIANITY AND PUBLIC LIFE (Maryland) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,113,072 to it, the largest being The Henry Luce Foundation Inc ($300,000). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CENTER FOR CHRISTIANITY AND PUBLIC LIFE have?
- IRS filings report 18 organizations giving $2,113,072 in grants to CENTER FOR CHRISTIANITY AND PUBLIC LIFE, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CENTER FOR CHRISTIANITY AND PUBLIC LIFE?
- The Henry Luce Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $300,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CENTER FOR CHRISTIANITY AND PUBLIC LIFE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maryland. 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 2022–2025), and the filings of 18 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