Kentucky · Nonprofit
CHRISTIAN APPALACHIAN PROJECT INC
CHRISTIAN APPALACHIAN PROJECT INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 369 organizations whose IRS filings report $23,741,275 to it, the largest being ZEROV INC ($10,235,938). 201 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $237M
- Funders on record
- 369
- Grants received
- $24M
- Net assets
- $53M
What Christian Appalachian Project Inc does
Mission
The christian appalachian project's mission is building hope, transforming lives, and sharing christ's love through service in appalachia.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Family services departments include: new housing/home repair, family advocacy, family life counseling - mt. Vernon, elderly services, family life counseling, grateful breads food pantry - mt. Vernon, grateful threads attic - mt. Vernon. Services with a total value of $800,882 were donated to this program. This value has been excluded from total expenses and public support.
$49,283,345 spentof which $42,653,082 as grants$324,654 earned by the program23% of program spendingEducation services departments include: camp andrew jackson, camp shawnee, howell scholarship fund, family life center cdc, eagle center cdc.
$31,780,996 spentof which $27,949,227 as grants$15,460 earned by the program15% of program spendingCommunity services departments include: youthfest, workfest. Gik distribution - corbin, paintsville. Services with a total value of $25,758 were donated to this program. This value has been excluded from total expenses and public support.
$130,983,900 spentof which $124,134,588 as grants$276,963 earned by the program62% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $212,048,241.
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 $29M to $37M (+26%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 0% · 2018 0% · 2019 0% · 2020 0% · 2021 1% · 2022 0% · 2023 0% · 2024 0% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of CHRISTIAN APPALACHIAN PROJECT INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (17% 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.
Chief executive
Guy Adams
President/CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 67 funders to 152 funders, grant income rose $377k → $4.3M.
41 of 369 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 28% 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: $2k from one payer (the payer's own filing calls it a related party, largest Amin Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money CHRISTIAN APPALACHIAN PROJECT INC raised.
From the IRS filings of CHRISTIAN APPALACHIAN PROJECT INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 369 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 APPALACHIAN PROJECT INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 43% of grant income and the top three 58%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
76% 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 APPALACHIAN PROJECT INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 19% · 2018 21% · 2019 15% · 2020 49% · 2021 48% · 2022 37% · 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
47% of CHRISTIAN APPALACHIAN PROJECT INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% 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
71% of CHRISTIAN APPALACHIAN PROJECT INC's grant income comes from Kentucky funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6.7M arriving through sponsors registered in 23 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 APPALACHIAN PROJECT INC has grown faster than half of the 180 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 180 human services nonprofits over $100M, FY2025
Government funding CHRISTIAN APPALACHIAN PROJECT INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $104k on record.
- Appalachian Regional Commission$104k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like CHRISTIAN APPALACHIAN PROJECT 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 Kentucky
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
90% 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 38 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CHRISTIAN APPALACHIAN PROJECT 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 CHRISTIAN APPALACHIAN PROJECT INC?
- CHRISTIAN APPALACHIAN PROJECT INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 369 organizations whose IRS filings report $23,741,275 to it, the largest being ZEROV INC ($10,235,938). 201 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CHRISTIAN APPALACHIAN PROJECT INC have?
- IRS filings report 369 organizations giving $23,741,275 in grants to CHRISTIAN APPALACHIAN PROJECT INC, 201 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHRISTIAN APPALACHIAN PROJECT INC?
- ZEROV INC is the largest funder on record, with $10,235,938 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHRISTIAN APPALACHIAN PROJECT INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Kentucky. 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 369 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