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CHRISTIAN CHILDRENS FUND

CHRISTIAN CHILDRENS FUND (Virginia) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $306,844 to it, the largest being TR UW JOHN YATES DOWNMAN ($129,310). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$44k
Funders on record
14
Grants received
$307k
Net assets
$110k
12/14 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 64%
01What it does

What Christian Childrens Fund does

Mission

Providing basic needs and education for orphans and vulnerable children through partnerships with faith-based social service organizations in developing nations.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Programs

  1. 25 Children in Zambia - We provided for their housing food school supplies and school fees. We also provided their clothing and shoes along with gifts for birthdays. These children were able to attend school because of our support.

    $15,500 spentof which $15,500 as grants
    30% of program spending
  2. 60 Children in South America - We provided clothing school supplies and backpacks for children in remote villages in the Peruvian Andes. We also provided hearing aids for 2 children and medical supplies for a clinic serving poor children in a small town.

    $25,992 spentof which $25,800 as grants
    50% of program spending
  3. Support for 4 US Immigrant families - from Zambia Afghanistan

    $9,195 spentof which $9,195 as grants
    18% of program spending
  4. Grant to Rev Jassay in Liberia

    $1,666 spentof which $1,650 as grants
    3% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $52,353.

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 ($65k) Expenses 100 ($64k) Net assets 100 ($14k)2021 Revenue 176 ($115k) Expenses 161 ($103k) Net assets 187 ($26k)2022 Revenue 107 ($69k) Expenses 116 ($74k) Net assets 151 ($21k)2023 Revenue 312 ($204k) Expenses 141 ($90k) Net assets 966 ($134k)2024 Revenue 82 ($54k) Expenses 102 ($65k) Net assets 880 ($122k)2025 Revenue 68 ($44k) Expenses 88 ($56k) Net assets 794 ($110k)
202020212022202320242025
Revenue (68)Expenses (88)Net assets (794)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 2022 to 2023, from $21k to $134k (+540%).

$14k
$26k
$21k
$134k
$122k
$110k
202020212022202320242025
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
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

93% of CHRISTIAN CHILDRENS FUND’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,031 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

$1k
’20
$12k
’21
−$5k
’22
$113k
’23
−$12k
’24
−$12k
’25
15
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.

Chief executive

Sherlie Scribner

Executive Director

Board chair

Christopher Svestka

Board Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

202020212023
Listed555
Joined·+0·
No longer listed·0·
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $15k → $35k.

3 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 46% 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 CHILDRENS FUND’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 CHILDRENS FUND leans on a few funders — its largest provides 42% of grant income and the top three 88%; half comes from just 2 funders.

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

46% 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 CHILDRENS FUND.

42%
largest funder
88%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 75% · 2018 76% · 2019 45% · 2020 40% · 2021 42% · 2022 48% · 2023 57% — 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

85% of CHRISTIAN CHILDRENS FUND's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 86% 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

CHRISTIAN CHILDRENS FUND draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Virginia, across 8 states in all.

NY
MA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
RI
TX

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

’17
’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Virginia out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $140k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

CHRISTIAN CHILDRENS FUND has grown faster than half of the 1,793 international nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−27% · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−7% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,793 international nonprofits under $100k, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

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

Public support

34%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

VA

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Questions and answers

Who funds CHRISTIAN CHILDRENS FUND?
CHRISTIAN CHILDRENS FUND (Virginia) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $306,844 to it, the largest being TR UW JOHN YATES DOWNMAN ($129,310). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does CHRISTIAN CHILDRENS FUND have?
IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $306,844 in grants to CHRISTIAN CHILDRENS FUND, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CHRISTIAN CHILDRENS FUND?
TR UW JOHN YATES DOWNMAN is the largest funder on record, with $129,310 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CHRISTIAN CHILDRENS FUND find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 14 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