Ohio · Nonprofit
Christian Aid Ministries
Christian Aid Ministries (Ohio) receives grants from 65 organizations whose IRS filings report $35,640,964 to it, the largest being Anabaptist Foundation ($21,712,887). 33 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 76% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $141M
- Funders on record
- 65
- Grants received
- $36M
- Net assets
- $101M
What Christian Aid Ministries does
Mission
CAMs primary purpose is to provide a trustworthy and efficient channel for Amish, Mennonite, and other conservative Anabaptist groups and individuals to minister to physical and spiritual needs around the world. Annually, CAM distributes (continued)
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Food, Medicines & Other Aid: CAM provides food, medicines, clean water, seeds, clothing, and other aid for needy families, the handicapped, elderly people, vulnerable children, widows, widowers, and other needy individuals and communities in numerous countries.
$93,975,731 spentof which $84,478,728 as grants60% of program spendingTeaching, Education & Inspirational Materials: Thousands of needy children in various countries are helped through CAMs school-related programs. Additionally, CAM also supplies inspirational materials, posts Gospel billboards in the U.S., equips pastors with discipleship training, and provides teaching to help impoverished people provide for themselves and their families.
$33,179,608 spentof which $21,963,579 as grants21% of program spendingCrisis Response International & USA: CAM responds to wars, natural disasters, and other crises around the world by supplying food, shelter, emergency aid, and other assistance. In the U.S. Disaster Response volunteer teams provide cleanup in the wake of hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, and other disasters. As another way of assisting in the U.S., CAM Search & Rescue teams assist local authorities with finding lost and missing persons.
$24,449,289 spentof which $18,711,448 as grants16% of program spendingOther Programs: CAM operates various programs to share Gods love with those who are in physical and spiritual need. This includes assisting those suffering from persecution, helping to support indigenous churches, providing self-support resources and projects, walking alongside migrants, and more.
$4,338,698 spentof which $2,343,858 as grants3% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $155,943,326.
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 2020 to 2021, from $83M to $105M (+27%).
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.
99% of Christian Aid Ministries’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Board chair
Thomas Wagler
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 15 funders to 24 funders, grant income rose $1.0M → $6.7M.
21 of 65 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 76% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $22M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Christian Aid Ministries Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money Christian Aid Ministries raised.
From the IRS filings of Christian Aid Ministries’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 65 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
Christian Aid Ministries leans on a few funders — its largest provides 61% of grant income and the top three 74%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
88% 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 Aid Ministries.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 32% · 2018 64% · 2019 54% · 2020 56% · 2021 43% · 2022 46% · 2023 47% — 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.
How long its funders stay
55% of Christian Aid Ministries's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 51% give in more than one year at all.
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
76% of Christian Aid Ministries'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 $8.4M that is directly attributable, 75% of it comes from funders outside Ohio, across 19 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $27M arriving through sponsors registered in 15 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
Christian Aid Ministries is better cushioned than half of the 13 religion nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13 religion nonprofits over $100M, FY2025
Organizations like Christian Aid Ministries
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 Ohio
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
96% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 36 states
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Christian Aid Ministries Found · exempt
- TGS International Inc · corp_trust
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Christian Aid Ministries: 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 Christian Aid Ministries?
- Christian Aid Ministries (Ohio) receives grants from 65 organizations whose IRS filings report $35,640,964 to it, the largest being Anabaptist Foundation ($21,712,887). 33 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 76% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Christian Aid Ministries have?
- IRS filings report 65 organizations giving $35,640,964 in grants to Christian Aid Ministries, 33 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Christian Aid Ministries?
- Anabaptist Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $21,712,887 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Christian Aid Ministries find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 65 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing