Nebraska · Nonprofit
CHRISTIAN RECORD SERVICES INC
CHRISTIAN RECORD SERVICES INC (Nebraska) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $592,575 to it, the largest being ANTHONY F BAUER TRUST FUND ($251,420). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.3M
- Funders on record
- 26
- Grants received
- $593k
- Net assets
- $9.0M
What Christian Record Services Inc does
Mission
Christian record services provides free christian publications and programs for people who are legally blind.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
National camps and other direct services: coordinate with national camps for blind children to send legally blind children and adults to camps at various locations across the united states. The camps give blind youth and adults the opportunity to come to a christian environment where they can fellowship together, participate in new activities, build confidence, improve physical health, discover undeveloped potential, and learn of god's love.
$846,190 spentof which $71,136 as grants43% of program spendingMagazine subscriptions are available to clients who request them in braille, large print and audio. A selection of magazines are also available in spanish. The lending libarary lends more than 1,400 titles in audio. Insight4vets gifts solar-powered audio book players to united states military veterans who are blind.
$548,810 spent28% of program spendingPublic information and education: the organization utilized postal mail, email. Speaking engagements, person-to-person contacts, social media, and a publicly-available website to inform and educate thousands of people about blindness and ways to relate to people who are blind. The organization also awarded college scholarships to qualified students.
$436,346 spent22% of program spendingOther exempt purpose: the organization provides an outreach ministry for adults who are blind. These dial-in presentations strive to inform, encourage, and inspire the mind, body, and spirit through mental health and wellness sessions, social meet-and-greet interactions, bible games, prayer time, and more.
$118,382 spentof which $15,867 as grants6% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,949,728.
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 2017 to 2018, from $5.1M to $7.3M (+43%).
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.
84% of CHRISTIAN RECORD SERVICES INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 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
Alex Bryant
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $9k → $130k.
3 of 26 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 11% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $175k from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Adventist Community Services North America Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money CHRISTIAN RECORD SERVICES INC raised.
From the IRS filings of CHRISTIAN RECORD SERVICES 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 RECORD SERVICES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 42% of grant income and the top three 66%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 65% · 2018 56% · 2019 83% · 2020 38% · 2021 39% · 2022 47% · 2023 41% — 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
50% of CHRISTIAN RECORD SERVICES INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% 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
CHRISTIAN RECORD SERVICES INC draws 99% of its grant income from funders outside Nebraska, across 17 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $65k 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 RECORD SERVICES INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 11,274 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,274 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like CHRISTIAN RECORD SERVICES 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 Nebraska
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
71% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
93%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 18 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CHRISTIAN RECORD SERVICES 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 RECORD SERVICES INC?
- CHRISTIAN RECORD SERVICES INC (Nebraska) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $592,575 to it, the largest being ANTHONY F BAUER TRUST FUND ($251,420). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CHRISTIAN RECORD SERVICES INC have?
- IRS filings report 26 organizations giving $592,575 in grants to CHRISTIAN RECORD SERVICES INC, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHRISTIAN RECORD SERVICES INC?
- ANTHONY F BAUER TRUST FUND is the largest funder on record, with $251,420 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHRISTIAN RECORD SERVICES INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Nebraska. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 26 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