Illinois · Nonprofit
CHRIST CARES
CHRIST CARES (Illinois) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $130,433 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($65,700). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2023
- $153k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $130k
- Net assets
- $49k
What Christ Cares does
Mission
Religious - provide Christian Ministers to share Gods Love Christ Cares brings hope and help to people in need by providing ministers and volunteers to proclaim the Gospel the GOOD NEWS shared in John 316 that God loves us and has provided a way of salvation and demonstrate Gods Love by helping and resourcing in practical ways Our ministry focus area is the economically hard hit areas of Chicagoland
As stated on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
HOMELESS MINISTRY Christ Cares has a wide range of programs to help the homeless and poor of Chicgoland utilizing its Program Director Independent Contractors and volunteers On Thursdays Christ Cares along with New Life Baptist Church co-sponsors the Hope for the Homeless Bible Study and Lunch Usually between 40 to 50 attend weekly This program consists of singing Christian Songs and an in depth Bible Study Each person is encouraged to take a Bible Devotional Sheet Home to work on and there is a large team of staff and volunteers there to encourage and help in various ways including connecting homeless with various available resources depending on their needs Afterwards a delicious and healthy lunch is served this translates to over 2250 meals served annually not including the other ways Christ Cares distributes food to those in need Christ Cares also sponsors a weekly Christian AANA Program alcoholic anonymous and narcotic anonymous recovery and victory program which helps those who have had or currently have a problem with drugs or alcohol to live victoriously and to learn helpful life skills Our Program Director sends out a daily text to about 150 which contains a scripture…
$58,813 spent45% of program spendingCHRISTAIN URBAN MINISTRY including RESOURCING encouraging and helping urban churches as well as direct wholistic ministry to those in economically hard hit areas A primary goal of Christ Cares is to found plant urban churches as well as resource and encourage established urban churches to empower them to proclaim and demonstrate the Love of God to their communities Urban churches often face overwhelming needs in their community but have very few resources to help those in need because of the economic problems in the community and their churches Christ Cares secures and shares practical resources that help with the churches religious goals of Sharing the Gospel of Jesus Christ and to also help meet the felt needs of the people of their community and thus becoming a center of help and hope Resourcing examples include Bibles Gospel Tracts clothing winter coats over a thousand new Christmas Toys for needy children Thanksgiving and Christmas baskets to 60 plus families and School Supplies for 1300 children including ever single grade school and junior high student of poverty stricken Ford Heights IL We have ten key urban churches that we help including a special relationship with New…
$49,847 spent38% of program spendingCHRISTIAN MINISTRY endeavors including FOOD MINISTRY YOUTH MINISTRY EVANGELISM CHRISTIAN MINISTRY and TRANSPORTATION MINISTRY Christ Cares secures food donations and distributes it to people in need as well as stock a Food Pantry for the Chicago Heights area at New Life Church Christ Cares ministers to urban youth in various ways and sometimes have basketball activities as a way for youth to have fun in a safe environment as well as encourage them to make good spiritual decisions in life Christ Cares is involved with Evangelism Discipleship and Christian Ministry Christ Cares also has a transportation ministry and has a fleet of vehicles including a couple Vans a Box Truck a Bus and a trailer to be used to provide transportation to our programs and also to pick up and distribute resources These vehicles are also available for urban churches to use free of charge for the same purposes Of course Christ Cares also pays for the insurance of these vehicles as well as liability insurance to keep everyone safe and protected
$22,721 spent17% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $131,381.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2019 to 2020, from $37k to $44k (+17%).
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.
100% of CHRIST CARES’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations 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. 1 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income fell $16k → $6k.
3 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 CHRIST CARES’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
CHRIST CARES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% 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
100% 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 CHRIST CARES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 50% · 2019 51% · 2020 64% · 2021 52% · 2022 52% · 2023 96% — growing more concentrated.
“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
100% of CHRIST CARES'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $130k 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
CHRIST CARES's revenue fell 21% between 2018 and 2023.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,278 religion nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2023
Organizations like CHRIST CARES
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.
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CHRIST CARES?
- CHRIST CARES (Illinois) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $130,433 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($65,700). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does CHRIST CARES have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $130,433 in grants to CHRIST CARES, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHRIST CARES?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $65,700 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHRIST CARES 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 FY2023 (financials across 2018–2023), and the filings of 3 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