Missouri · Nonprofit
CITYSERVE INTERNATIONAL
CITYSERVE INTERNATIONAL (Missouri) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,481,201 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($5,142,300). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $4.9M
- Funders on record
- 19
- Grants received
- $15M
- Net assets
- $3.7M
What Cityserve International does
Mission
The mission of Cityserve International is to train, equip and mobilize the local church to live out the gospel of jesus christ in its community through compassion.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Cityserve International leads a variety of initiatives and programs aimed to empower the local church to fulfill its calling to be a stronger catalyst for healthier communities. These initiatives and programs consist of networking to explain our mission and establish a donor base for developement of the mission programs, honoring pastors and other like-minded individuals by working with them to better connect their churches with the heads of the local communities in which they serve, by providing training and resources, and through disaster relief services and compassion work. During the 2024 year disaster relief services was a big part of cityserves church partnerships.
$3,917,658 spentof which $2,175,792 as grants$171,597 earned by the program83% of program spendingThrough an abundance of contributions from the 2022 year, our organization was again able to give in excess in our current year. We accomplished this by equipping domestic and foreign churches with trauma care and support so they can help refugee mothers and their children. Through our support churches will be resourced with hot, nutritious meals, emergency relief supplies, and connections to shelter so they provide help and hope to the most vulnerable.
$774,771 spentof which $575,000 as grants17% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,692,429.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 $3.1M to $5.1M (+67%).
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 CITYSERVE INTERNATIONAL’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
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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
Dave Donaldson
CEO
Board chair
Mike Kern
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 10 funders, grant income rose $224k → $2.4M.
12 of 19 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 53% 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 CITYSERVE INTERNATIONAL’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 18 of 19 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
CITYSERVE INTERNATIONAL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 33% of grant income and the top three 80%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
72% 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 CITYSERVE INTERNATIONAL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 41% · 2020 92% · 2021 60% · 2022 61% · 2023 58% — diversifying over time.
“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
43% of CITYSERVE INTERNATIONAL's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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
53% of CITYSERVE INTERNATIONAL's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $7.3M that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Missouri, across 6 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $8.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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
CITYSERVE INTERNATIONAL has grown faster than three-quarters of the 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like CITYSERVE INTERNATIONAL
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 Missouri
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CITYSERVE INTERNATIONAL: 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 CITYSERVE INTERNATIONAL?
- CITYSERVE INTERNATIONAL (Missouri) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,481,201 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($5,142,300). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does CITYSERVE INTERNATIONAL have?
- IRS filings report 19 organizations giving $15,481,201 in grants to CITYSERVE INTERNATIONAL, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CITYSERVE INTERNATIONAL?
- NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC is the largest funder on record, with $5,142,300 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CITYSERVE INTERNATIONAL find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Missouri. 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 2018–2024), and the filings of 19 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