Washington · Nonprofit
CHRISTIAN FORMATION AND DIRECTION MINISTRIES NW
CHRISTIAN FORMATION AND DIRECTION MINISTRIES NW (Washington) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $41,750 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($16,750). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 64% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2023
- $49k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $42k
- Net assets
- $32k
What Christian Formation and Direction Ministries Nw does
Mission
Christian Education for Adults
As stated on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Spiritual Formation: Program of retreats teaching Christian Spiritual Formation 5-12 participants
$12,968 spent36% of program spendingSpiritual Direction: Year of Discernment before entering a two-year program of conferences, supervision and academic work that qualifies participants to be certified as Spiritual Directors 14 participants
$17,351 spentof which $17,750 as grants48% of program spendingWorkshops: Continuing education for alumni and Spiritual Directors 9-12 participants
$5,563 spent16% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2022 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $35,882.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $37k to $25k (−31%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Board chair
Stan Jacobson
Chair
As listed on its FY2022 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $10k → $14k.
2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 64% 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 FORMATION AND DIRECTION MINISTRIES NW’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 FORMATION AND DIRECTION MINISTRIES NW leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
64% 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 FORMATION AND DIRECTION MINISTRIES NW.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 64% — 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.
Where its funders are
64% of CHRISTIAN FORMATION AND DIRECTION MINISTRIES NW'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 $15k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Washington funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $27k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.
Organizations like CHRISTIAN FORMATION AND DIRECTION MINISTRIES NW
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 Washington
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
78%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CHRISTIAN FORMATION AND DIRECTION MINISTRIES NW?
- CHRISTIAN FORMATION AND DIRECTION MINISTRIES NW (Washington) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $41,750 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($16,750). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 64% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does CHRISTIAN FORMATION AND DIRECTION MINISTRIES NW have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $41,750 in grants to CHRISTIAN FORMATION AND DIRECTION MINISTRIES NW, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHRISTIAN FORMATION AND DIRECTION MINISTRIES NW?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $16,750 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHRISTIAN FORMATION AND DIRECTION MINISTRIES NW find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. 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 2021–2023), 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