Ohio · Nonprofit
CHRISTIAN HEALTHCARE MINISTRIES INC
CHRISTIAN HEALTHCARE MINISTRIES INC (Ohio) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $826,061 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($202,412). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 80% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $755M
- Funders on record
- 15
- Grants received
- $826k
- Net assets
- $287M
What Christian Healthcare Ministries Inc does
Mission
To glorify god, show christian love, and experience god's presence as christians share each other's medical bills.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Founded in 1981, christian healthcare ministries (chm) is the original health care sharing ministry for christians. Chm is a nonprofit voluntary cost-sharing ministry through which participating christians pay each other's medical bills. Chm is based on galatians 6:2 and acts 2 and 4. Galatians 6:2 states, "bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of christ." acts 2:44-45 states, and all that believed were together and had all things common; and sold their possessions and goods, and parted them to all men, as every man had need." acts 4:32 states, and the multitude of them that believed were of one heart and of one soul; neither said any of them that ought of the things which he possessed was his own; but they had all things common." chm is based on these biblical teachings that the family of god comes together and bears each other's burdens. Ministry members put these teachings into practice by voluntarily contributing their resources to share (pay) each other's medical bills so that no one is in need. Chm members have accomplished this task by satisfying more than $11.8 billion in medical bills since inception. In 2024, members sent $639,376,957 for medical bills to…
$681,763,135 spentof which $424,380 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $681,763,135.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2022 to 2023, from $165M to $245M (+49%).
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 HEALTHCARE MINISTRIES INC’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. 1 of the last 6 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
J Craig Brown Ii
CEO, president, director
Board chair
Roy Hamilton
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2020 and FY2021 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $25k → $111k.
7 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 80% 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 HEALTHCARE MINISTRIES 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 HEALTHCARE MINISTRIES INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
80% 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 HEALTHCARE MINISTRIES INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 60% · 2018 32% · 2019 28% · 2020 19% · 2021 29% · 2022 24% · 2023 32% — 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
55% of CHRISTIAN HEALTHCARE MINISTRIES INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% 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
80% of CHRISTIAN HEALTHCARE MINISTRIES 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 $165k that is directly attributable, 70% of it comes from funders outside Ohio, across 8 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $661k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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 HEALTHCARE MINISTRIES INC is better cushioned than half of the 22 religion nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 22 religion nonprofits over $100M, FY2024
Organizations like CHRISTIAN HEALTHCARE MINISTRIES 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 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 29 states
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CHRISTIAN HEALTHCARE MINISTRIES INC?
- CHRISTIAN HEALTHCARE MINISTRIES INC (Ohio) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $826,061 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($202,412). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 80% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does CHRISTIAN HEALTHCARE MINISTRIES INC have?
- IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $826,061 in grants to CHRISTIAN HEALTHCARE MINISTRIES INC, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHRISTIAN HEALTHCARE MINISTRIES INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $202,412 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHRISTIAN HEALTHCARE MINISTRIES INC 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 FY2024 (financials across 2018–2024), and the filings of 15 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