Michigan · Nonprofit
CIS CHRISTIAN INVOLVEMENT IN SERVICE
CIS CHRISTIAN INVOLVEMENT IN SERVICE (Michigan) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,939 to it, the largest being Dallas Seminary Found Vision Fund ($11,880). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $38k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $12k
- Net assets
- $110k
What Cis Christian Involvement in Service does
Mission
The purpose of this corporation is to stimulate prayer and direct involvement in financing the theological training for Russian & Ukrainian pastors; to give financial support to missionaries, church planters; to give assistance in constructing new church buildings and to encourage, inform, inspire and instruct Christians regarding how they can be more involved in the Great Commission of Christ, especially in evangelizing their own people.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Christianity Programs, General/Other: Various support for compassionate care of those in need. (individuals, families, ministries, etc.)
$6,500 spent29% of program spendingChristianity Programs, General/Other: Financial support for missionaries/local pastors in Ukraine. This allows pastor to devote his time to ministering to church members and evangelizing, while still providing for his own family needs. (9 missionaries/pastors)
$16,200 spent71% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $22,700.
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 2023 to 2024, from $64k to $99k (+54%).
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.
96% of CIS CHRISTIAN INVOLVEMENT IN SERVICE’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (100% 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.
Leadership and staff
Board chair
James Agens
President/Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income fell $2k → $2k.
1 of 2 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 CIS CHRISTIAN INVOLVEMENT IN SERVICE’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
CIS CHRISTIAN INVOLVEMENT IN SERVICE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 100% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 99% · 2021 99% · 2022 99% · 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
CIS CHRISTIAN INVOLVEMENT IN SERVICE draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Michigan, across 1 state in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $59 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
CIS CHRISTIAN INVOLVEMENT IN SERVICE runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 6,869 religion nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,869 religion nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like CIS CHRISTIAN INVOLVEMENT IN SERVICE
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 Michigan
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
76%
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 CIS CHRISTIAN INVOLVEMENT IN SERVICE: 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 CIS CHRISTIAN INVOLVEMENT IN SERVICE?
- CIS CHRISTIAN INVOLVEMENT IN SERVICE (Michigan) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,939 to it, the largest being Dallas Seminary Found Vision Fund ($11,880). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CIS CHRISTIAN INVOLVEMENT IN SERVICE have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $11,939 in grants to CIS CHRISTIAN INVOLVEMENT IN SERVICE, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CIS CHRISTIAN INVOLVEMENT IN SERVICE?
- Dallas Seminary Found Vision Fund is the largest funder on record, with $11,880 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CIS CHRISTIAN INVOLVEMENT IN SERVICE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Michigan. 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 2 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