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CHRISTIAN SHELTER INCORPORATED

CHRISTIAN SHELTER INCORPORATED (Maryland) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,157,980 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE EASTERN SHOR ($671,364). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$838k
Funders on record
18
Grants received
$2.2M
Net assets
$3.0M
13/18 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 44%
01What it does

What Christian Shelter Incorporated does

Mission

Emergency food, shelter, clothing & counseling.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. The christian shelter is a christian mission totally supported by god's people to provide emergency food, shelter, clothing, and spiritual counseling to anyone requiring such service.

    $439,981 spent$3,315 earned by the program
    100% of program spending
  2. The christian shelter is a christian mission totally supported by god's people to provide emergency food, shelter, clothing, and spiritual counseling to anyone requiring such service.

The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $439,981.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($953k) Expenses 100 ($550k) Net assets 100 ($2.3M)2021 Revenue 84 ($799k) Expenses 98 ($538k) Net assets 112 ($2.6M)2022 Revenue 70 ($670k) Expenses 107 ($590k) Net assets 115 ($2.7M)2023 Revenue 82 ($779k) Expenses 121 ($666k) Net assets 120 ($2.8M)2024 Revenue 74 ($705k) Expenses 132 ($724k) Net assets 119 ($2.8M)2025 Revenue 88 ($838k) Expenses 121 ($664k) Net assets 127 ($3.0M)
202020212022202320242025
Revenue (88)Expenses (121)Net assets (127)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 2020 to 2021, from $2.4M to $2.7M (+9%).

$2.4M
$2.7M
$2.7M
$2.8M
$2.8M
$3.0M
202020212022202320242025
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.

2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 8% · 2023 19% · 2024 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

99% of CHRISTIAN SHELTER INCORPORATED’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 23,940 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

$403k
’20
$261k
’21
$80k
’22
$112k
’23
−$18k
’24
$175k
’25
5.9
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.

Board chair

Bryan E Murfree

Chairman

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

202020212022202320242025
Listed66661110
Joined·+0+1+0+5+0
No longer listed·01001
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $90k → $285k.

3 of 18 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 33% 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 SHELTER INCORPORATED’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 17 of 18 funders by total. 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 SHELTER INCORPORATED has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 31% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left

47% 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 SHELTER INCORPORATED.

31%
largest funder
55%
top three
~6
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 36% · 2018 52% · 2019 38% · 2020 26% · 2021 31% · 2022 29% · 2023 32% — 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

80% of CHRISTIAN SHELTER INCORPORATED's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 72% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

83% of CHRISTIAN SHELTER INCORPORATED's grant income comes from Maryland funders.

MD
DE
AZ

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

’17
’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Maryland out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $702k 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 SHELTER INCORPORATED runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 13,917 human services nonprofits its size.

Operating margin21% · top quartile
Months of reserve5.9mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−3% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,917 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Government funding CHRISTIAN SHELTER INCORPORATED receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $106k on record.

State$106k
Top programs
  • Grant$106k

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 SHELTER INCORPORATED

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 Maryland

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

66% of spending goes to programs.

Program 66%Management 34%Fundraising 0%

Governance

8
board members
0%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds CHRISTIAN SHELTER INCORPORATED?
CHRISTIAN SHELTER INCORPORATED (Maryland) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,157,980 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE EASTERN SHOR ($671,364). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does CHRISTIAN SHELTER INCORPORATED have?
IRS filings report 18 organizations giving $2,157,980 in grants to CHRISTIAN SHELTER INCORPORATED, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CHRISTIAN SHELTER INCORPORATED?
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE EASTERN SHOR is the largest funder on record, with $671,364 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CHRISTIAN SHELTER INCORPORATED find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maryland. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2020–2025), and the filings of 18 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