Illinois · Nonprofit
CHARIS INC
CHARIS INC (Illinois) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $22,142 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($19,815). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 93% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2022
- $296k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $22k
- Net assets
- $0
What Charis Inc does
Mission
Charis, inc. Is a faith based organization existing primarily to bring the gospel to the unreached haitian people in the mountain villages of sud est (south east) haiti and secondarily to provide on the ground educational and physical humanitarian assistance where needed.
As stated on its FY2022 Form 990.
Programs
On the ground evangelism program: charis continues to purchase and distribute haitian creole bibles in every village that is entered, sharing the gospel and providing weekly bible studies, providing medicines and supplies as needed, providing help with upkeep of churches, church plants, training of pastors, medical clinics and providing support to new believers as needed.
$215,484 spent80% of program spendingFeeding program: in 2021, manna packs (beans and rice) were distributed to 2 orphanages, 4 schools, 230 widows, 22 villages, 30 pastors and leaders, 68 visually-impaired haitians and 2 camps.
$20,842 spent8% of program spendingFree education initiative program: support was provided to teachers at the following schools to provide free or deeply discounted education to all the children in the schools: - little rabbits christian preschool - peredo, haiti - education center of pierre louis - grand reviye, haiti also, provided financial assistance to 66 students.
$7,123 spent3% of program spendingFamily prayer sponsorship program: sponsors are matched with a haitian family for which they commit to pray for everyday. The sponsors receive a photo card of the family and a cover letter explaining the program. Church planting/construction program - program includes costs for additions to the main church building in the village of marigot plus 12 churches in the mountains and all new church plants. "precious in his sight" baby program - 24 mothers were provided prenatal and after delivery care in 2021. Humanitarian and/or natural disaster relief program - in 2021 built or helped repair houses for 3 families.
$26,255 spent10% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2021 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $269,704.
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.
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 $57k to $0 (−100%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 6 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 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $0 → $9k.
2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 93% 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 CHARIS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 3 of 4 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
CHARIS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 89% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
93% 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 CHARIS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 98% · 2022 100% · 2023 98% — broadly stable.
“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
93% of CHARIS 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 $2k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Illinois, across 1 state.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $21k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.
Organizations like CHARIS 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
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
69%
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
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CHARIS INC: 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 CHARIS INC?
- CHARIS INC (Illinois) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $22,142 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($19,815). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 93% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does CHARIS INC have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $22,142 in grants to CHARIS INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHARIS INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $19,815 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHARIS 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 FY2022 (financials across 2017–2022), and the filings of 4 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