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CHRISTMAS BEHIND BARS OUTREACH MINISTRY INC

CHRISTMAS BEHIND BARS OUTREACH MINISTRY INC (Indiana) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $357,950 to it, the largest being FJARLI FOUNDATION ($300,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$1.6M
Revenue FY2024
6
Funders on record
$358k
Grants received
$3.2M
Net assets
4/6 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 15%

Against its field

CHRISTMAS BEHIND BARS OUTREACH MINISTRY INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,336 crime & legal nonprofits its size.

Operating margin65% · top quartile
Months of reserve68.8mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)26% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,336 crime & legal nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

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 ($319k) Expenses 100 ($305k) Net assets 100 ($347k)2018 Revenue 102 ($324k) Expenses 90 ($273k) Net assets 115 ($398k)2019 Revenue 116 ($369k) Expenses 111 ($340k) Net assets 123 ($427k)2020 Revenue 245 ($780k) Expenses 167 ($509k) Net assets 201 ($698k)2021 Revenue 252 ($804k) Expenses 179 ($546k) Net assets 276 ($956k)2022 Revenue 319 ($1.0M) Expenses 186 ($566k) Net assets 406 ($1.4M)2023 Revenue 429 ($1.4M) Expenses 208 ($635k) Net assets 617 ($2.1M)2024 Revenue 497 ($1.6M) Expenses 180 ($549k) Net assets 915 ($3.2M)
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Revenue (497)Expenses (180)Net assets (915)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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

94% of CHRISTMAS BEHIND BARS OUTREACH MINISTRY INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (93% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 1,390 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$14k
17
$51k
18
$29k
19
$271k
20
$258k
21
$452k
22
$733k
23
$1.0M
24
69
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $4k → $211k.

2 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)15% 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 CHRISTMAS BEHIND BARS OUTREACH MINISTRY INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 5 of 6 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

CHRISTMAS BEHIND BARS OUTREACH MINISTRY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 84% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

84%
largest funder
99%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 88% · 2018 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 94% · 2022 100% · 2023 95%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

CHRISTMAS BEHIND BARS OUTREACH MINISTRY INC draws 99% of its grant income from funders outside Indiana, across 3 states in all.

OR
IN
OH

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

17
20
21
23
Indiana out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $54k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.

Organizations like CHRISTMAS BEHIND BARS OUTREACH MINISTRY 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 Indiana

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

96% of spending goes to programs.

Program 96%Management 4%Fundraising 0%

Governance

3
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

100%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

IN

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CHRISTMAS BEHIND BARS OUTREACH MINISTRY 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 CHRISTMAS BEHIND BARS OUTREACH MINISTRY INC?
CHRISTMAS BEHIND BARS OUTREACH MINISTRY INC (Indiana) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $357,950 to it, the largest being FJARLI FOUNDATION ($300,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does CHRISTMAS BEHIND BARS OUTREACH MINISTRY INC have?
IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $357,950 in grants to CHRISTMAS BEHIND BARS OUTREACH MINISTRY INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CHRISTMAS BEHIND BARS OUTREACH MINISTRY INC?
FJARLI FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $300,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CHRISTMAS BEHIND BARS OUTREACH MINISTRY INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Indiana. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 6funders 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