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Christian Services Inc

Christian Services Inc (South Carolina) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $497,044 to it, the largest being The Springs Close Foundation Inc ($167,800). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$3.0M
Funders on record
11
Grants received
$497k
Net assets
$133k
8/11 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 45%
01What it does

What Christian Services Inc does

Mission

To prevent childhood deprivation of families in Lancaster County, SC by meeting basic nutritional needs, providing Christmas assistance and workplace training and literacy

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. To meet nutritional needs of underprivileged families

    $1,810,838 spent$78 earned by the program
    96% of program spending
  2. To provide a joyful Christmas holiday for underprivileged children

    $57,295 spent
    3% of program spending
  3. The Saving our Families Together program helps families find their strengths, build on those strengths and learn skills to create stronger families, improve relationships and and increase communication. Families receive individual coaching and workshops to improve their relationships, communication and conflict resolution skills, financial planning skills and parenting skills.

    $24,708 spent$406 earned by the program
    1% of program spending
  4. Provide assistance to families with utilities and rents to avoid homelessness

The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,892,841.

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 ($2.1M) Expenses 100 ($2.1M) Net assets 100 ($278k)2018 Revenue 89 ($1.9M) Expenses 96 ($2.0M) Net assets 79 ($220k)2019 Revenue 28 ($598k) Expenses 27 ($556k) Net assets 94 ($261k)2020 Revenue 13 ($282k) Expenses 14 ($289k) Net assets 55 ($152k)2021 Revenue 121 ($2.6M) Expenses 119 ($2.5M) Net assets 96 ($268k)2022 Revenue 106 ($2.3M) Expenses 106 ($2.2M) Net assets 106 ($296k)2023 Revenue 95 ($2.0M) Expenses 100 ($2.1M) Net assets 88 ($245k)2024 Revenue 142 ($3.0M) Expenses 151 ($3.1M) Net assets 48 ($133k)
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Revenue (142)Expenses (151)Net assets (48)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 2022 to 2023, from $940k to $763k (−19%).

$492k
$657k
$567k
$690k
$806k
$940k
$763k
$625k
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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
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 0% · 2021 0% · 2023 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

100% of Christian Services Inc’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (81% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 11,793 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$62k
’17
−$89k
’18
$41k
’19
−$8k
’20
$124k
’21
$73k
’22
−$31k
’23
−$113k
’24
0.6
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.

Chief executive

Eric Kramer

Executive Director

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

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Joined·+0+7+6+0+3+4+0
No longer listed·0460530
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 7 funders, grant income rose $3k → $56k.

3 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 10% 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 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 Services Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 34% of grant income and the top three 75%; half comes from just 2 funders.

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

34%
largest funder
75%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 80% · 2019 100% · 2020 33% · 2021 59% · 2022 44% · 2023 63% — 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

63% of Christian Services Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 73% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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

87% of Christian Services Inc's grant income comes from South Carolina funders.

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SC

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

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South Carolina out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $49k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Christian Services Inc's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 7 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin−4% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve0.6mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)5% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,263 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Organizations like Christian 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 South Carolina

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

74% of spending goes to programs.

Program 74%Management 5%Fundraising 21%

Governance

12
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

96%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

SC

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Christian 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 Services Inc?
Christian Services Inc (South Carolina) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $497,044 to it, the largest being The Springs Close Foundation Inc ($167,800). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Christian Services Inc have?
IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $497,044 in grants to Christian Services Inc, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Christian Services Inc?
The Springs Close Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $167,800 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Christian Services Inc find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in South Carolina. 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 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