Colorado · Nonprofit
CHAMPION MINISTRIES INC
CHAMPION MINISTRIES INC (Colorado) receives grants from 50 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,284,013 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($5,498,016). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 71% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $4.1M
- Funders on record
- 50
- Grants received
- $11M
- Net assets
- $372k
What Champion Ministries Inc does
Mission
Christian outreach ministry to marginalized and at-risk youth and young adults.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The organization's mission is to lead every youth and young adult into a personal relationship with jesus by leveraging current media channels to connect with them wherever they are. This is being accomplished primarily through a series of age-relevant christ-centered spots finding its audience on different social media platforms (instagram, facebook, snapchat, etc...) . Curious viewers and observers are encouraged to go on-line to chat further with a specially trained spiritual coach. Started in 2003, groundwire leverages media and technology to connect with young people through their entertainment. Although traditional media (tv, radio, outdoor) was the primary source of delivery earlier, groundwire embraced digital and social media delivery in 2017 as it allows for more predictable and efficient outreach and response. The content gets their attention and gets them to the website where coaches await to engage in conversation. An extensive response team of over 686 specially trained spiritual coaches spent 100,257 hours in 2025 answering all inquiries. In addition to their current media driving people to www.groundwire.net, during 2015 the organization launched the "jesus cares"…
$3,677,655 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $3,677,655.
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 2022 to 2023, from $145k to $538k (+270%).
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: 2020 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of CHAMPION MINISTRIES INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 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
Randy Walton
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 26 funders, grant income rose $214k → $1.9M.
15 of 50 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 71% 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 CHAMPION MINISTRIES INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 50 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
CHAMPION MINISTRIES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 49% of grant income and the top three 66%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
71% 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 CHAMPION MINISTRIES INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 81% · 2018 55% · 2019 86% · 2020 53% · 2021 74% · 2022 46% · 2023 53% — 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
61% of CHAMPION MINISTRIES INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% 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
71% of CHAMPION MINISTRIES 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 $3.3M that is directly attributable, 99% of it comes from funders outside Colorado, across 14 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $8.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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
CHAMPION MINISTRIES INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 1,928 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,928 youth development nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like CHAMPION MINISTRIES 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 Colorado
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CHAMPION MINISTRIES INC?
- CHAMPION MINISTRIES INC (Colorado) receives grants from 50 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,284,013 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($5,498,016). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 71% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does CHAMPION MINISTRIES INC have?
- IRS filings report 50 organizations giving $11,284,013 in grants to CHAMPION MINISTRIES INC, 27 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHAMPION MINISTRIES INC?
- NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC is the largest funder on record, with $5,498,016 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHAMPION MINISTRIES INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Colorado. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 50 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