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CHRISTIAN ADVOCATES SERVING EVANGELISM INC

CHRISTIAN ADVOCATES SERVING EVANGELISM INC (Tennessee) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,530,456 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF TAMPA BAY INC ($1,042,642). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 94% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$63M
Funders on record
24
Grants received
$2.5M
Net assets
$92M
12/24 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 2%
01What it does

What Christian Advocates Serving Evangelism Inc does

Mission

The center is specifically dedicated to the ideal that religious freedom and freedom of speech are inalienable, god given rights. The center's purpose is to educate, promulgate, conciliate and where necessary, litigate, to ensure that those rights are protected under the law.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Information and education - christian advocates serving evangelism, inc. (case) is a not-for-profit organization specifically dedicated to the ideal that religious freedom and freedom of speech are inalienable god-given rights. The purpose of case is to educate, promulgate, conciliate and where necessary, litigate to ensure that those rights are protected under the law. Membership in the organization is free and members receive e-mail updates periodically. Membership provides opportunities for members to join with other members to make their voices heard. The educational department sent out 11,194,116 pieces of informational mail to members and individuals who requested information regarding our exempt functions and purposes. The website is for members, press, educators, and the legal community as well. Over 548,192,859 informational emails were sent to members and individuals. Over 3,567,416 unique internet users visited our website. Page views for 2025 totaled 11,258,559 for the website aclj.org. Our organization's facebook likes total over 7,908,000 and we have over 912,880 twitter followers. 2025 facebook live views were over 14,660,000. Youtube views were over 91.2 million.…

    $7,388,895 spent
    13% of program spending
  2. Legal services - our legal programs include numerous trial and district court, court of appeals and us supreme court cases as well as numerous demand letters and interventions on behalf of individuals whose religious rights may have been violated. As always there are no legal fees charged to those individuals represented by our lawyers. Our legal grants provide the necessary legal expertise in a variety of cases involving our exempt purposes as well as training of lawyers in the field of constitutional law and religious freedoms. Our chief counsel is a leading expert in first amendment law and a number 1 new york times best selling author. He has appeared on numerous television and radio shows as a constitutional law expert. Mr. Sekulow regularly appears on fox news, fox news business, hannity, cbn, cbs, abc, nbc and other shows. Jordan sekulow is also an expert in international human rights and appears regularly on fox news, fox news business, cbn, tbn, hannity and others.

    $32,836,218 spentof which $28,626,303 as grants
    56% of program spending
  3. Media services - the organization's media and educational divisions consist of four nationally broadcast radio shows that are currently aired on major radio stations in the united states of america and canada. Our weekly tv show, aclj this week, is seen on 272 full power and low power stations as part of the trinity broadcast network. In 2025, our show was also being broadcasted internationally on the trinity broadcast network's 78 satellites and over 18,000 television and cable affilates worldwide. Tbn through their network stations and satellite broadcast has a reach of 175 nations on over 30 networks and 2 billion viewers every day. Our legal grants include numerous trial and district court, court of appeals and us supreme court cases as well as numerous demand letters and interventions on behalf of individuals whose religious rights may have been violated. As always there are no legal fees charged to those individuals represented by our lawyers. Our legal grants provide the necessary legal expertise in a variety of cases involving our exempt purposes as well as training of lawyers in the field of constitutional law and religious freedoms.

    $18,469,317 spent
    31% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $58,694,430.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($55M) Expenses 100 ($53M) Net assets 100 ($46M)2018 Revenue 100 ($55M) Expenses 99 ($53M) Net assets 97 ($45M)2019 Revenue 100 ($55M) Expenses 100 ($53M) Net assets 109 ($50M)2020 Revenue 115 ($63M) Expenses 94 ($50M) Net assets 141 ($65M)2021 Revenue 139 ($77M) Expenses 104 ($55M) Net assets 187 ($86M)2022 Revenue 112 ($62M) Expenses 114 ($60M) Net assets 177 ($82M)2023 Revenue 123 ($68M) Expenses 116 ($61M) Net assets 196 ($91M)2024 Revenue 113 ($63M) Expenses 117 ($62M) Net assets 199 ($92M)
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Revenue (113)Expenses (117)Net assets (199)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 2020 to 2021, from $72M to $93M (+29%).

$56M
$54M
$58M
$72M
$93M
$88M
$95M
$96M
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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.

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2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

93% of CHRISTIAN ADVOCATES SERVING EVANGELISM INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (96% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 157 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$2.1M
’17
$2.7M
’18
$2.1M
’19
$13M
’20
$21M
’21
$1.3M
’22
$6.5M
’23
$615k
’24
1.0
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.

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Listed714141515161719
Joined·+7+0+1+0+1+1+3
No longer listed·0000001
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $131k → $227k.

14 of 24 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 94% 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 CHRISTIAN ADVOCATES SERVING EVANGELISM 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

CHRISTIAN ADVOCATES SERVING EVANGELISM INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 41% of grant income and the top three 78%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

95% 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 CHRISTIAN ADVOCATES SERVING EVANGELISM INC.

41%
largest funder
78%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 88% · 2018 69% · 2019 60% · 2020 59% · 2021 61% · 2022 88% · 2023 37% — 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 CHRISTIAN ADVOCATES SERVING EVANGELISM INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

94% of CHRISTIAN ADVOCATES SERVING EVANGELISM 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 $156k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Tennessee, across 8 states.

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

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Tennessee out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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

CHRISTIAN ADVOCATES SERVING EVANGELISM INC receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $2.5M to it.

Operating margin1% · below the median
Months of reserve1.0mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)2% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 152 civil rights nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024

Organizations like CHRISTIAN ADVOCATES SERVING EVANGELISM 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 Tennessee

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

93% of spending goes to programs.

Program 93%Management 3%Fundraising 4%

Governance

8
board members
50%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

98%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 40 states

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Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Aclj Action Inc · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds CHRISTIAN ADVOCATES SERVING EVANGELISM INC?
CHRISTIAN ADVOCATES SERVING EVANGELISM INC (Tennessee) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,530,456 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF TAMPA BAY INC ($1,042,642). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 94% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does CHRISTIAN ADVOCATES SERVING EVANGELISM INC have?
IRS filings report 24 organizations giving $2,530,456 in grants to CHRISTIAN ADVOCATES SERVING EVANGELISM INC, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CHRISTIAN ADVOCATES SERVING EVANGELISM INC?
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF TAMPA BAY INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,042,642 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CHRISTIAN ADVOCATES SERVING EVANGELISM 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.

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 24 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