California · Nonprofit
COMPASSION CONNECTION
COMPASSION CONNECTION (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $79,624 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($60,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 97% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $206k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $80k
- Net assets
- $383k
What Compassion Connection does
Mission
Connecting kingdom resources by training and supporting pastors and church planters in ecuador. Help catalyze relationships between churches in the united states and ecuador through shared projects, outreach, and funding requests. Our goal is to establish long-lasting relationships between churches sharing in the work of the gospel.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Pastor training- believing strongly in the need to have pastors, church planters, and the ministry leaders within the local church to be solidly trained in theological and biblical truth, as well as having a life, both personal and ministerial, that reflects the character and virtues that the scriptures demand (1timothy 3, titus 1), Compassion Connection has developed a ministerial training program involving a curriculum of 27 classes given in 9 modules of 1-week intensives over a course of 3 years. These modules are progressive in nature. For those who complete modules 1-3 they will receive a "basic certificate" which indicates that they have had a foundational exposure to the scriptures, basic doctrines and personal discipleship in their devotional life and spiritual disciplines. For those completing 1-6, they will receive a "teacher's certificate" which they can present to their local churches, indicating that they have taken courses in the proper interpretation of scripture, the correct way of communicating the scriptures as well as areas of discipleship in marriage, family and ongoing integrity in their lives. Finally, for those completing modules 1-9, they will receive a…
$35,331 spent24% of program spendingChurch plant support- we are presently working with and supporting six church planting efforts. This involves the following:a.creating and nurturing church plant partnerships with usa stateside churches. We endeavor to see a viable partnering relationship take place between the us stateside church and the ecuadorian church planter and his church. Often this results in financial support that is channeled through Compassion Connection to help the local church planter and his church.b.our staff serves as mentors and coaches to the church planters helping them in their different phases of planting a church through ongoing communications and visits. C.our church plants are also supported by ongoing short-term team visits by their partnering church from the us. D.Compassion Connection also serves as a voice for these local churches and their growth and expansion projects. Historically, this has looked like social work projects in their community, church construction projects as the local church grows, and other outreach projects that the local ecuadorian church pastor and leaders envision
$60,771 spent42% of program spendingMaintenance and care of assets- Compassion Connection has been blessed over the years to have developed a training center that can house up to 80 people with a salon that can seat more than 100 people. This center is situated in the cotopaxi region of ecuador near adjacent to the panamerican highway which allows for easy access from nearly all regions of ecuador. The facilities include the main building with dormitory for up to 50 people, and main salon and kitchen facility, as well as three other building structures that house up to 30 people. We are blessed to have long-term caretakers that work to maintain all the facilities throughout the year.
$47,155 spent32% of program spendingOngoing sustainability project- part of the vision of the training center in lasso has been to utilize the property in such a way as to offset the costs of feeding the students and teams that come to participate in the programs. The property has a year-round garden that produces various crops that help to feed the students in our training program as well as feeding the visiting teams and other events that take place at the property.
$1,188 spent1% of program spendingMercy ministry- as an ongoing priority for Compassion Connection, we have dedicated both finances and ministry to the area of social and community service. We do this primarily through the local churches with whom we are connected. Historically, we have helped numerous churches as they have linked arms with the local community through feeding programs, after school programs, helping to equip local health centers, sponsoring medical brigades, etc. This past year we were able to help numerous people with medical needs, as well as help support the ongoing after school program of one of our connected churches.
$669 spent0% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $145,114.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2022 to 2023, from $598k to $424k (−29%).
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.
100% of COMPASSION CONNECTION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than 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 6 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
Steve Youngren
CEO/president
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $18 → $52.
3 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 97% 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 COMPASSION CONNECTION’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
COMPASSION CONNECTION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 75% 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
97% 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 COMPASSION CONNECTION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 87% · 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
97% of COMPASSION CONNECTION'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 $3k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside California, across 1 state.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $77k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
COMPASSION CONNECTION is better cushioned than half of the 2,673 international nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,673 international nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like COMPASSION CONNECTION
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
71% 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 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for COMPASSION CONNECTION: 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 COMPASSION CONNECTION?
- COMPASSION CONNECTION (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $79,624 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($60,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 97% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does COMPASSION CONNECTION have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $79,624 in grants to COMPASSION CONNECTION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COMPASSION CONNECTION?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $60,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COMPASSION CONNECTION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 4 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