Wisconsin · Nonprofit
CHRISTIAN LIFE RESOURCES INC
CHRISTIAN LIFE RESOURCES INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $47,807 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($24,065). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 67% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $683k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $48k
- Net assets
- $-176460
What Christian Life Resources Inc does
Mission
The mission of christian life resources is to use life and family issues as bridges to convey the love of god and to share the message of salvation through christ. We love because he first loved us.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
In 2025 the staff at christian life resources remained on call 24 hours a day, 365 days a year to handle inquiries on a wide spectrum of life and family issues. Through its website, social media, blog, toll-free number, snail mail, and email the staff at christian life resources regularly counseled and provided christian direction for people facing challenging life and family situations. The staff at and board members at christian life resources maintained active and full schedules of presenting on life and family issues to parochial and secular audiences throughout north america. Christian life resources also provided a variety of free resources for individuals and congregations for educating on life and family issues. Resources included worship and bible study materials, an information database on the issues, a weekly educational podcast, and free downloads of a christian medical directive statement for all 50 states and select canadian provinces. Christian life resources held its annual national convention on september 13, 2025 at kettle moraine lutheran high school jackson, wi.
$430,720 spent$4,337 earned by the program97% of program spendingChristian life resources also continued to provide administrative and fundraising assistance to support its home for mothers (founded in 1993) which was relocated from colorado to wisconsin in july 2014. This specialized ministry serves generationally poor single mothers with training and housing with the specific goals of teaching self-sufficiency and responsibility. In its relocated setting in milwaukee, wi the program can house four mothers and their children at one time. In this residency-based program residents learned valuable parenting, vocational, and academic skills towards the goal of becoming responsible and self-sufficient christian parents and members of society. The skill-development component of the program networks with various charitable, educational and government agencies within the community while enlisting several professionals in volunteer roles as mentors and trainers to assist the paid staff. Through our bridge ministries division, we help activate our affiliates, congregational groups, and individuals to be a proactive force of good for the benefit of those in need within families, congregations and communities.
$14,000 spent$62,000 earned by the program3% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $444,720.
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 2021 to 2022, from $547k to $188k (−66%).
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: 2020 14%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
89% of CHRISTIAN LIFE RESOURCES INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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.
Board chair
Rev Em James Behringer
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $6k → $11k.
3 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 67% 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 LIFE RESOURCES 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 LIFE RESOURCES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% of grant income and the top three 84%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
67% 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 LIFE RESOURCES INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 92% · 2021 100% · 2022 89% · 2023 94% — 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
25% of CHRISTIAN LIFE RESOURCES INC's funders are still giving 1 year after their first grant; 38% 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
67% of CHRISTIAN LIFE RESOURCES 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 $16k that is directly attributable, 70% of it comes from Wisconsin funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $32k 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.
Against its field
CHRISTIAN LIFE RESOURCES INC's revenue grew 29% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,334 religion nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like CHRISTIAN LIFE RESOURCES 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 Wisconsin
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
68% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 23 states
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- New Beginnings-A Home for Mothers Inc · exempt
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CHRISTIAN LIFE RESOURCES 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 LIFE RESOURCES INC?
- CHRISTIAN LIFE RESOURCES INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $47,807 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($24,065). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 67% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does CHRISTIAN LIFE RESOURCES INC have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $47,807 in grants to CHRISTIAN LIFE RESOURCES INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHRISTIAN LIFE RESOURCES INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $24,065 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHRISTIAN LIFE RESOURCES INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Wisconsin. 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 8 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