Colorado · Nonprofit
Compassion International Incorporated
Compassion International Incorporated (Colorado) receives grants from 941 organizations whose IRS filings report $257,936,613 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($85,129,380). 636 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 78% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2019
- $953M
- Funders on record
- 941
- Grants received
- $258M
- Net assets
- $269M
What Compassion International Incorporated does
Mission
Compassion exists to release children from poverty in Jesus' name. Compassion serves all children, regardless of religion, race, ethnicity, or gender.
As stated on its FY2019 Form 990.
Program
Child Development ProgramsThe child development programs represent costs to assist over 2.1 million and 1.92 million children in 2019 and 2018, respectively. Child development is a lifetime investment. It changes as a child's needs change. It is personal, individualized and relational work that is tailored to the age, gender, health, culture and family situation of each child Compassion serves. Through our child development programs, Compassion equips children with the skills they need to overcome poverty and lead successful, fulfilling lives.Compassion's Child Sponsorship Program (CDSP) pairs compassionate people with children suffering from poverty in the developing world. Through monthly financial support, prayer and letter writing, sponsors invest directly in the lives of children living in extreme poverty. Sponsors provide words of hope and encouragement through personal letters and notes that remind children of their full potential and help them to defeat poverty and pursue their dreams. Compassion processed nearly 9 million letters between sponsors and their children in 2019. Additionally, sponsors and donors have access to a centralized communication center to obtain…
The first program described on its most recent Form 990, which lists programs largest first by expense.
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 2018 to 2019, from $329M to $364M (+11%).
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.
99% of Compassion International Incorporated’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. 0 of the last 3 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 222 funders to 459 funders, grant income rose $14M → $48M.
104 of 941 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 78% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $18k from one payer (the payer's own filing calls it a related party, largest Amin Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money Compassion International Incorporated raised.
From the IRS filings of Compassion International Incorporated’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 941 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
Compassion International Incorporated has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 33% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
82% 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 International Incorporated.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 37% · 2018 24% · 2019 31% · 2020 28% · 2021 41% · 2022 45% · 2023 46% — 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
57% of Compassion International Incorporated's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 68% 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
78% of Compassion International Incorporated'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 $56M that is directly attributable, 99% of it comes from funders outside Colorado, across 49 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $202M arriving through sponsors registered in 34 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 International Incorporated runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 63 international nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 63 international nonprofits over $100M, FY2019
Organizations like Compassion International Incorporated
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 Colorado
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 25 related entities
- Compassion Productions LLC · disregarded
- Asia Developmental Services Inc · exempt
- Stichting International Child Development Services · exempt
- Compassion International (Singapore) Limited · exempt
- Compassion International (East Asia) Ltd · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Compassion International Incorporated: 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 International Incorporated?
- Compassion International Incorporated (Colorado) receives grants from 941 organizations whose IRS filings report $257,936,613 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($85,129,380). 636 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 78% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Compassion International Incorporated have?
- IRS filings report 941 organizations giving $257,936,613 in grants to Compassion International Incorporated, 636 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Compassion International Incorporated?
- NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC is the largest funder on record, with $85,129,380 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Compassion International Incorporated find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Colorado. 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 FY2019 (financials across 2017–2019), and the filings of 941 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