Mississippi · Nonprofit
CHRISTIANS IN ACTION INC
CHRISTIANS IN ACTION INC (Mississippi) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $267,416 to it, the largest being HIS WAY INC ($141,500). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.4M
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $267k
- Net assets
- $1.5M
What Christians in Action Inc does
Mission
To operate exclusively for charitable and benevolent purposes in providing services and shelter for abused and neglected children; to provide community education with the goal of preventing child abuse in our community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Christians in action, inc. Has been in operation since 1974. The agency operates an emergency shelter for children and youth, ages birth through seventeen, a children's advocacy center, and a runaway program for youth. Located in hinds county, a county with one of the highest incidences of abuse and neglect in the state, the shelter serves children from all mississippi counties when space is available. The shelter is licensed by the mississippi department of child protection services (mdcps) and children enter the shelter by court order. It was the first shelter in the state to open in 1977, and is one of six shelters statewide serving this age group and population. The emergency shelter is one of the highest utilized programs in the state. Although the stay is intended to be limited to 45 days while the state finds a foster home or relative placement, the stay can be extended to allow additional time to make an appropriate decision for permanency.in 2025, the emergency shelter provided services for 91 children. The number of units of service were 2,495 (one child spending one night = one unit of service). Fourteen children had been sexually abused, 14 had been physically abused,…
$1,251,898 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,251,898.
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 2021 to 2022, from $1.5M to $1.8M (+21%).
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 87% · 2018 87% · 2019 83% · 2020 78% · 2021 75% · 2022 83% · 2023 72% · 2024 73% · 2025 73%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of CHRISTIANS IN ACTION INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (39% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 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.
Chief executive
Janice Wilder
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $60k → $29.
1 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 CHRISTIANS IN ACTION 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
CHRISTIANS IN ACTION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 53% of grant income and the top three 88%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
76% 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 CHRISTIANS IN ACTION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 82% · 2018 83% · 2020 86% · 2021 65% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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
88% of CHRISTIANS IN ACTION INC's grant income comes from Mississippi funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $119 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
CHRISTIANS IN ACTION INC receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $267k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,196 housing & shelter nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like CHRISTIANS IN ACTION 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 Mississippi
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
91%
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 CHRISTIANS IN ACTION 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 CHRISTIANS IN ACTION INC?
- CHRISTIANS IN ACTION INC (Mississippi) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $267,416 to it, the largest being HIS WAY INC ($141,500). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CHRISTIANS IN ACTION INC have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $267,416 in grants to CHRISTIANS IN ACTION INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHRISTIANS IN ACTION INC?
- HIS WAY INC is the largest funder on record, with $141,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHRISTIANS IN ACTION INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Mississippi. 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 6 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