California · Nonprofit
Chayah Ministries International Inc
Chayah Ministries International Inc (California) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,656,493 to it, the largest being The Tyrone Heritage Foundation ($1,132,911). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $494k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $1.7M
- Net assets
- $88k
What Chayah Ministries International Inc does
Mission
Support and provide a place where lives are restored and hope revived by providing a safe, nurturing and loving place for children to grow. Chayah rescues Ugandan orphans from abuse and neglect, trafficking, extreme poverty, and abandonment, and provides them a loving home.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Special programs and support of other similar organization.
$1,414,805 spent74% of program spendingOperating a children's' home in Uganda for the safety and care of children.
$338,972 spent18% of program spendingProvide education for children in Uganda.
$150,976 spent8% of program spendingMission trips to Uganda to transport volunteers and board members to provide support for mission. Individuals traveling on mission trips contriubte to the full cost of their travel expenses.
$8,458 spent0% of program spendingOther local ministry activities to maintain and support the seven acres of property which include, utilities, homes, supporting facilities and a church.
The 5 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,913,211.
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 2024 to 2025, from $1.5M to $88k (−94%).
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.
87% of Chayah Ministries International Inc’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Chief executive
Kristen Sponseller
CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 3 funders, grant income fell $268k → $192k.
4 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 31% 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 Chayah Ministries International 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
Chayah Ministries International Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 68% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
31% 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 Chayah Ministries International Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 97% · 2018 83% · 2019 43% · 2020 72% · 2021 77% · 2022 55% · 2023 52% — 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
Chayah Ministries International Inc draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 1 state in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $521k 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
Chayah Ministries International Inc receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $1.7M to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,468 international nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Chayah Ministries International 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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
98% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 Chayah Ministries International 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 Chayah Ministries International Inc?
- Chayah Ministries International Inc (California) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,656,493 to it, the largest being The Tyrone Heritage Foundation ($1,132,911). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Chayah Ministries International Inc have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $1,656,493 in grants to Chayah Ministries International Inc, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Chayah Ministries International Inc?
- The Tyrone Heritage Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $1,132,911 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Chayah Ministries International Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 6 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