Virginia · Nonprofit
CHRISTIAN LIGHT PUBLICATIONS INC
CHRISTIAN LIGHT PUBLICATIONS INC (Virginia) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $160,813 to it, the largest being Anabaptist Foundation ($98,820). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 69% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $9.7M
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $161k
- Net assets
- $14M
What Christian Light Publications Inc does
Mission
The organization is a christian literature ministry founded in 1969. Since that beginning 49 years ago, clp has produced millions of christian books, pamphlets, and tracts for people in the united states, canada, and around the world. Christian light education (cle), a division of clp, produces high-quality curriculum for christian schools and homeschools.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Publication of christian literature, christian school and homeschool curriculum, christian storybooks and bible study books, and free gospel tracts for evangelistic outreach.
$7,342,222 spentof which $755 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $7,342,222.
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 2023 to 2024, from $16M to $15M (−9%).
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.
3% of CHRISTIAN LIGHT PUBLICATIONS INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (90% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
David Martin
Chairman & p
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $138 → $100.
3 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 69% 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 LIGHT PUBLICATIONS 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 LIGHT PUBLICATIONS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 61% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
69% 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 LIGHT PUBLICATIONS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 98% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
69% of CHRISTIAN LIGHT PUBLICATIONS 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 $50k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Virginia, across 1 state.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $111k 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 LIGHT PUBLICATIONS INC's revenue grew 91% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,325 religion nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like CHRISTIAN LIGHT PUBLICATIONS 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 Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CHRISTIAN LIGHT PUBLICATIONS 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 LIGHT PUBLICATIONS INC?
- CHRISTIAN LIGHT PUBLICATIONS INC (Virginia) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $160,813 to it, the largest being Anabaptist Foundation ($98,820). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 69% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does CHRISTIAN LIGHT PUBLICATIONS INC have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $160,813 in grants to CHRISTIAN LIGHT PUBLICATIONS INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHRISTIAN LIGHT PUBLICATIONS INC?
- Anabaptist Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $98,820 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHRISTIAN LIGHT PUBLICATIONS INC 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 4 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing