Indiana · Nonprofit
CHURCH WORLD SERVICE INC
CHURCH WORLD SERVICE INC (Indiana) receives grants from 276 organizations whose IRS filings report $90,052,812 to it, the largest being International Rescue Committee INC ($48,064,916). 143 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $280M
- Funders on record
- 276
- Grants received
- $90M
- Net assets
- $42M
What Church World Service Inc does
Mission
Church world service, inc. Is a private, voluntary faith-based organization with 37 member communions that transformscommunities around the globe through just and sustainable responses to hunger, poverty, displacement and disaster.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Services to displaced persons - the cws commitment to refugees and other displaced persons is a prophetic expression of our calling in faith to welcome strangers, to give voice to the uprooted, to provide durable solutions, and to challenge those responsible for suffering and displacement. Cws works with a network of churches, organizations, and individuals that assist uprooted persons that have had to flee their countries due to persecution, armed conflict, etc. Together, we seek to provide forcibly displaced populations support to address critical unmet needs as durable solutions are sought. Activities include: sheltering people temporarily displaced by civil strife and other factors beyond their control, providing shelter, food, medical assistance, legal aid, etc. To refugees, refugee resettlement in the us through congregations, protecting the uprooted persons in the most vulnerable situations, responding to new and emerging refugee situations, advocating initiatives that influence us government and other policies and laws affecting the protection of uprooted persons, and providing immigration services and support.cws protects and assists refugees, asylum seekers, migrants,…
$221,959,650 spentof which $126,834,245 as grants$2,719,298 earned by the program94% of program spendingEmergency response - cws joins together with others to support people and communities in humanitarian crises around the world. Cws helps the faith community play its special role in disaster mitigation, preparedness, and response. In responding to emergencies and working during prolonged periods of need, cws works to ensure the world's most vulnerable people become self-sufficient. The goal is to achieve durable solutions that build or restore peace, justice and dignity.activities include: emergency assistance to address the immediate needs of the most vulnerable survivors of natural and human caused disasters, material assistance related to natural and human caused disasters, mitigation, preparedness, planning, and sustainable assistance to minimize the impact of disasters, disaster preparedness and immediate and long-term response activities of people and communities preparing for and affected by natural and human caused disasters, and provision of pastoral, spiritual, and psychological care that helps disaster survivors cope with the crisis situation and recover their capacity to move forward positively.cws responds to humanitarian emergencies by partnering with communities…
$5,607,851 spentof which $4,442,984 as grants2% of program spendingGlobal relief and development - cws works in partnership with local organizations, churches, individuals, organizations, and others around the world to bring about sustainable change. By working together to support development and food security, cws seeks to work with marginalized communities experiencing chronic hunger and poverty and to achieve durable solutions that build peace and justice. The focus of the work is on the most vulnerable persons and communities to develop socially, economically and environmentally sustainable communities and achieve a higher quality of life. The following programs are part of this functional category: hunger and malnutrition, climate change and sustainability, education, water, livelihoods, food security and rights, indigenous peoples, protection of vulnerable youth and children, and health.cws works in partnership with communities around the world to advance sustainable, locally led development that promotes food security, sustainable livelihoods, equitable access to clean water, climate resilience, and the protection of people in vulnerable situations. We operate in contexts of chronic poverty, food insecurity, inequity, and climate driven…
$5,599,065 spentof which $2,920,279 as grants2% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$2,717,233 spentof which $298,793 as grants1% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $235,883,799.
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 $35M to $51M (+47%).
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 71% · 2018 60% · 2019 61% · 2020 56% · 2021 58% · 2022 75% · 2023 85% · 2024 89% · 2025 88%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of CHURCH WORLD SERVICE INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (97% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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
Richard L Santos
CEO & president
Board chair
Rev Dr David Vasquez-Levy
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020, and between the FY2020 and FY2021, and between the FY2024 and FY2025 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 46 funders to 96 funders, grant income rose $2.5M → $19M.
53 of 276 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 14% 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 CHURCH WORLD SERVICE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 276 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
CHURCH WORLD SERVICE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 53% of grant income and the top three 63%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
91% 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 CHURCH WORLD SERVICE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 19% · 2018 21% · 2019 14% · 2020 10% · 2021 13% · 2022 39% · 2023 76% — 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.
How long its funders stay
36% of CHURCH WORLD SERVICE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 52% give in more than one year at all.
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
CHURCH WORLD SERVICE INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Indiana, across 30 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $13M arriving through sponsors registered in 25 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.
Against its field
CHURCH WORLD SERVICE INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 59 international nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 59 international nonprofits over $100M, FY2025
Government funding CHURCH WORLD SERVICE INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.3B on record — $1.3B federal, $731k state.
- Department of State$704.1M
- Department of Health and Human Services$498.3M
- Department of Homeland Security$67.7M
- Department of Justice$440k
- Department of Defense$93k
- FEDERAL$626k
- DEDICATED$60k
- GRANT IN AID$24k
- TRUST FUND$21k
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 CHURCH WORLD SERVICE 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 Indiana
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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 47 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CHURCH WORLD SERVICE 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 CHURCH WORLD SERVICE INC?
- CHURCH WORLD SERVICE INC (Indiana) receives grants from 276 organizations whose IRS filings report $90,052,812 to it, the largest being International Rescue Committee INC ($48,064,916). 143 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CHURCH WORLD SERVICE INC have?
- IRS filings report 276 organizations giving $90,052,812 in grants to CHURCH WORLD SERVICE INC, 143 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHURCH WORLD SERVICE INC?
- International Rescue Committee INC is the largest funder on record, with $48,064,916 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHURCH WORLD SERVICE 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 276 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