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CHRISTIAN HISTORY INSTITUTE INC

CHRISTIAN HISTORY INSTITUTE INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $756,699 to it, the largest being PENNSYLVANIA AUTOMOTIVE ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION ($300,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 93% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$4.6M
Funders on record
11
Grants received
$757k
Net assets
$7.3M
7/11 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 16%
01What it does

What Christian History Institute Inc does

Mission

Production and sale of religious films, magazines, and literature.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Production and distribution of religious films and the production adn sale of liturature on the lives of christian missionaries and others.

    $3,570,086 spent$3,651,038 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $3,570,086.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($709k) Expenses 100 ($899k) Net assets 100 ($1.0M)2018 Revenue 111 ($785k) Expenses 77 ($695k) Net assets 109 ($1.1M)2019 Revenue 91 ($647k) Expenses 75 ($675k) Net assets 106 ($1.1M)2020 Revenue 850 ($6.0M) Expenses 464 ($4.2M) Net assets 291 ($2.9M)2021 Revenue 783 ($5.6M) Expenses 489 ($4.4M) Net assets 407 ($4.1M)2022 Revenue 851 ($6.0M) Expenses 505 ($4.5M) Net assets 552 ($5.5M)2023 Revenue 668 ($4.7M) Expenses 512 ($4.6M) Net assets 569 ($5.7M)2024 Revenue 698 ($5.0M) Expenses 478 ($4.3M) Net assets 647 ($6.5M)2025 Revenue 646 ($4.6M) Expenses 428 ($3.9M) Net assets 725 ($7.3M)
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Revenue (646)Expenses (428)Net assets (725)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 2019 to 2020, from $1.2M to $3.2M (+161%).

$1.2M
$1.2M
$1.2M
$3.2M
$4.5M
$6.1M
$6.5M
$6.6M
$7.4M
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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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

16% of CHRISTIAN HISTORY INSTITUTE INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (90% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 2,735 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$190k
’17
$90k
’18
−$28k
’19
$1.9M
’20
$1.2M
’21
$1.5M
’22
$135k
’23
$655k
’24
$730k
’25
2.5
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.

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Joined·+0+0+0+1+0+1+1+1
No longer listed·00010110
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 3 funders, grant income fell $111k → $7k.

5 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 93% 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 HISTORY INSTITUTE 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 HISTORY INSTITUTE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 92%; half comes from just 2 funders.

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

93% 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 HISTORY INSTITUTE INC.

40%
largest funder
92%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 72% · 2018 68% · 2019 100% · 2020 83% · 2021 51% · 2022 99% · 2023 98% — 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

17% of CHRISTIAN HISTORY INSTITUTE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

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

93% of CHRISTIAN HISTORY INSTITUTE 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 $53k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Pennsylvania, across 5 states.

WI
MI
NY
DE
TX

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

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Pennsylvania out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $704k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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 HISTORY INSTITUTE INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 1,211 religion nonprofits its size.

Operating margin16% · above the median
Months of reserve2.5mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)26% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,211 religion nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Organizations like CHRISTIAN HISTORY INSTITUTE INC

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

93% of spending goes to programs.

Program 93%Management 6%Fundraising 1%

Governance

5
board members
80%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

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 1 state

PA

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Curtis Property Management · corp_trust

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Questions and answers

Who funds CHRISTIAN HISTORY INSTITUTE INC?
CHRISTIAN HISTORY INSTITUTE INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $756,699 to it, the largest being PENNSYLVANIA AUTOMOTIVE ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION ($300,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 93% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does CHRISTIAN HISTORY INSTITUTE INC have?
IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $756,699 in grants to CHRISTIAN HISTORY INSTITUTE INC, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CHRISTIAN HISTORY INSTITUTE INC?
PENNSYLVANIA AUTOMOTIVE ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $300,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CHRISTIAN HISTORY INSTITUTE INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 11 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