Kentucky · Nonprofit
CHRISTIAN SOCIAL SERVICES
CHRISTIAN SOCIAL SERVICES (Kentucky) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $25,921 to it, the largest being Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels Inc ($24,999). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $261k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $26k
- Net assets
- $294k
What Christian Social Services does
Mission
To serve people in eastern Kentucky who are living in poverty or are experiencing emergency or crisis situations. Each day, we work with proud people who are doing their best to survive during difficult economic times.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Christian Social Services is a 501 (c) (3) non-profit organization located in the hills of eastern kentucky. Since 1973, we have been a beacon for those in need. Through donations, grants, and revenue from our thrift store, we help those who are experiencing a difficult season their lives. Based on our funding, be it a need for food, assistance with electricity or other utilities, rent, eyeglasses, clothing, furniture, personal items, medicine, help with form completion, prayer, etc., chrisitan social services continues to support the people in our community. We work and partner with many local and state referral agencies to better serve people who are living in poverty or are experiencing emergency or crisis situations. Each day, we work with proud people from eastern kentucky who are doing their best to survive during difficult economic times.
$194,424 spentof which $16,088 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $194,424.
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 $403k to $354k (−12%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 7% · 2018 9% · 2019 10% · 2025 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
43% of CHRISTIAN SOCIAL SERVICES’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 5 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
Dallas Sammons
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $15k → $87.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 2% 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 SOCIAL SERVICES’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 SOCIAL SERVICES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 96% 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
98% 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 SOCIAL SERVICES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 77% · 2022 100% · 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
98% of CHRISTIAN SOCIAL SERVICES's grant income comes from Kentucky funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $422 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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 SOCIAL SERVICES runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 13,062 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,062 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like CHRISTIAN SOCIAL SERVICES
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 Kentucky
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CHRISTIAN SOCIAL SERVICES: 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 SOCIAL SERVICES?
- CHRISTIAN SOCIAL SERVICES (Kentucky) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $25,921 to it, the largest being Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels Inc ($24,999). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CHRISTIAN SOCIAL SERVICES have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $25,921 in grants to CHRISTIAN SOCIAL SERVICES, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHRISTIAN SOCIAL SERVICES?
- Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels Inc is the largest funder on record, with $24,999 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHRISTIAN SOCIAL SERVICES find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Kentucky. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 3 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