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CHRISTIAN RELIEF SERVICES INC

CHRISTIAN RELIEF SERVICES INC (Virginia) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $81,145 to it, the largest being Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program ($37,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 84% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

$46M
Revenue FY2025
13
Funders on record
$81k
Grants received
$1.3M
Net assets
6/13 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 0%

Against its field

CHRISTIAN RELIEF SERVICES INC has grown faster than half of the 131 international nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−0% · below the median
Months of reserve0.1mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)7% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 131 international nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The 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 ($26M) Expenses 100 ($28M) Net assets -116 ($-1023447)2018 Revenue 101 ($27M) Expenses 94 ($26M) Net assets -21 ($-186121)2019 Revenue 90 ($24M) Expenses 82 ($22M) Net assets 100 ($883k)2020 Revenue 147 ($39M) Expenses 136 ($37M) Net assets 229 ($2.0M)2021 Revenue 111 ($29M) Expenses 102 ($28M) Net assets 336 ($3.0M)2022 Revenue 147 ($38M) Expenses 138 ($38M) Net assets 368 ($3.2M)2023 Revenue 164 ($43M) Expenses 165 ($45M) Net assets 83 ($735k)2024 Revenue 178 ($47M) Expenses 167 ($46M) Net assets 164 ($1.5M)2025 Revenue 176 ($46M) Expenses 168 ($46M) Net assets 150 ($1.3M)
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Revenue (176)Expenses (168)Net assets (150)Peer revenue range

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.

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2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 1% · 2018 1% · 2019 1% · 2020 1% · 2021 1% · 2022 1% · 2023 0% · 2024 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

100% of CHRISTIAN RELIEF SERVICES INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (96% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 384 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$1.3M
17
$710k
18
$1.1M
19
$1.1M
20
$941k
21
$286k
22
$2.5M
23
$715k
24
$130k
25
0.1
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $9k → $61.

7 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)84% 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: $48M from 3 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Christian Relief Services 21st Century Campaign Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money CHRISTIAN RELIEF SERVICES INC raised.

From the IRS filings of CHRISTIAN RELIEF 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 RELIEF SERVICES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% of grant income and the top three 69%; half comes from just 2 funders.

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

84% 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 RELIEF SERVICES INC.

46%
largest funder
69%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 57% · 2020 68% · 2021 58% · 2022 76% · 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.

How long its funders stay

13% of CHRISTIAN RELIEF SERVICES INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 46% give in more than one year at all.

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

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

84% of CHRISTIAN RELIEF SERVICES 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 $13k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Virginia, across 5 states.

MN
IL
MI
PA
NC

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

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Virginia out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $68k 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Government funding CHRISTIAN RELIEF SERVICES INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $515k on record.

Federal$515k
grants $515kcontracts $0
Top agencies
  • Department of Justice$515k

Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.

Organizations like CHRISTIAN RELIEF SERVICES INC

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Virginia

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

91% of spending goes to programs.

Program 91%Management 0%Fundraising 9%

Governance

11
board members
91%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

81%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 34 states

AK
ME
NH
WA
ND
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
CO
KY
WV
VA
MD
NM
KS
AR
TN
NC
SC
OK
MS
AL
GA
FL

Part of a family of 24 related entities

  • Americans Helping Americans Inc · exempt
  • Bread and Water for Africa Inc · exempt
  • American Indian Youth Running Strong Inc · exempt
  • Christian Relief Services of Virginia Inc · exempt
  • Christian Relief Services Charities Inc · exempt

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CHRISTIAN RELIEF 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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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds CHRISTIAN RELIEF SERVICES INC?
CHRISTIAN RELIEF SERVICES INC (Virginia) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $81,145 to it, the largest being Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program ($37,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 84% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does CHRISTIAN RELIEF SERVICES INC have?
IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $81,145 in grants to CHRISTIAN RELIEF SERVICES INC, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CHRISTIAN RELIEF SERVICES INC?
Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program is the largest funder on record, with $37,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CHRISTIAN RELIEF SERVICES 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 13funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing