Oregon · Nonprofit
COMPASSION FIRST
COMPASSION FIRST (Oregon) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,804,532 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($1,892,700). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 84% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.3M
- Funders on record
- 23
- Grants received
- $3.8M
- Net assets
- $1.0M
What Compassion First does
Mission
Compassion First is a christian relief organization serving child sex- trafficking survivors through long-term residential and community-based aftercare, legal advocacy, peer-to-peer law enforcement training and case- managed intervention support.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
1) continued full-capacity operation of a full-function aftercare shelter in north sulawesi. Programming and wrap-around care includes residential and community-based care, catch-up education, college planning, trauma counseling, discipleship, life skills training, resilience programming, etc. 2) operation of transition home for graduates and residents of our north sulawesi shelter in advanced phases of care pursuing college or vocational aspirations. 3) continued community based care for survivors in east java. 4) continued operating a full-function aftercare aftercare shelter in west java providing the same programming and wrap-around residential care as our operation in north sulawesi. 5) continued transit monitoring operations in the north sulawesi ports to intercept traffickers before they are able to take a girl from her home island. 6) continued outreach and operational partnerships with local law enforcement specific to investigation and rescue of underage girls from sexual trafficking and forced prostitution inclusive of case-managed funding of intervention, case management of families, and case management/accompaniment of minors upon completion of intervention. 7)…
$2,449,695 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,449,695.
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 2020 to 2021, from $989k to $1.4M (+44%).
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: 2021 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of COMPASSION FIRST’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (97% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 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.
Board chair
Lonnie Sproat
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $35k → $631k.
10 of 23 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 84% 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 FIRST’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 FIRST leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% of grant income and the top three 75%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
94% 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 FIRST.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 74% · 2018 85% · 2019 65% · 2020 48% · 2021 65% · 2022 60% · 2023 45% — 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
50% of COMPASSION FIRST's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 48% 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
84% of COMPASSION FIRST'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 $606k that is directly attributable, 95% of it comes from funders outside Oregon, across 10 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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 FIRST has grown faster than half of the 1,608 international nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,608 international nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like COMPASSION FIRST
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 Oregon
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
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 FIRST: 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 FIRST?
- COMPASSION FIRST (Oregon) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,804,532 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($1,892,700). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 84% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does COMPASSION FIRST have?
- IRS filings report 23 organizations giving $3,804,532 in grants to COMPASSION FIRST, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COMPASSION FIRST?
- NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,892,700 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COMPASSION FIRST find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Oregon. 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 23 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