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Child Evangelism Fellowship of Tennessee Inc

Child Evangelism Fellowship of Tennessee Inc (Tennessee) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $550,362 to it, the largest being CHATTANOOGA CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($370,213). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 99% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$1.3M
Funders on record
10
Grants received
$550k
Net assets
$880k
7/10 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 13%
01What it does

What Child Evangelism Fellowship of Tennessee Inc does

Mission

To evangelize and to disciple boys and girls with the gospel of Christ and establish them in the local church

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Not described on the e-filed return.

    $545,498 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $545,498.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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.

100 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($721k) Expenses 100 ($626k) Net assets 100 ($484k)2021 Revenue 112 ($807k) Expenses 118 ($737k) Net assets 114 ($553k)2022 Revenue 141 ($1.0M) Expenses 142 ($888k) Net assets 140 ($679k)2023 Revenue 152 ($1.1M) Expenses 174 ($1.1M) Net assets 143 ($691k)2024 Revenue 179 ($1.3M) Expenses 177 ($1.1M) Net assets 182 ($880k)
20202021202220232024
Revenue (179)Expenses (177)Net assets (182)Peer revenue range

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 $730k to $969k (+33%).

$505k
$556k
$732k
$730k
$969k
20202021202220232024
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 13%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

100% of Child Evangelism Fellowship of Tennessee Inc’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (82% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 2,035 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

$95k
’20
$69k
’21
$126k
’22
$12k
’23
$189k
’24
9.7
months of
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

Craig Warner

Chairman

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

20202021202220232024
Listed64777
Joined·+0+3+1+0
No longer listed·2010
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $100 → $147k.

9 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 99% 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 Child Evangelism Fellowship of Tennessee 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

Child Evangelism Fellowship of Tennessee Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 67% of grant income and the top three 87%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

99% 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 Child Evangelism Fellowship of Tennessee Inc.

67%
largest funder
87%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 79% · 2020 83% · 2021 30% · 2022 83% · 2023 91% — 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

40% of Child Evangelism Fellowship of Tennessee Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 70% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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

99% of Child Evangelism Fellowship of Tennessee 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 $5k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Tennessee funders.

TN

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’19
’20
’21
Tennessee out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $546k arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Child Evangelism Fellowship of Tennessee Inc holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 1,928 youth development nonprofits its size.

Operating margin15% · above the median
Months of reserve9.7mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)16% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,928 youth development nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

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In Tennessee

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

49% of spending goes to programs.

Program 49%Management 42%Fundraising 8%

Governance

7
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

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

TN

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Questions and answers

Who funds Child Evangelism Fellowship of Tennessee Inc?
Child Evangelism Fellowship of Tennessee Inc (Tennessee) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $550,362 to it, the largest being CHATTANOOGA CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($370,213). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 99% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does Child Evangelism Fellowship of Tennessee Inc have?
IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $550,362 in grants to Child Evangelism Fellowship of Tennessee Inc, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Child Evangelism Fellowship of Tennessee Inc?
CHATTANOOGA CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $370,213 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Child Evangelism Fellowship of Tennessee Inc find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Tennessee. 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 2020–2024), and the filings of 10 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