Virginia · Nonprofit
CONSORTIUM OF CHRISTIAN STUDY CENTERS
CONSORTIUM OF CHRISTIAN STUDY CENTERS (Virginia) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,179,856 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($539,640). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 52% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.9M
- Funders on record
- 19
- Grants received
- $2.2M
- Net assets
- $1.4M
What Consortium of Christian Study Centers does
Mission
To catalyze and empower thoughtful christian presence and practice at colleges and universities around the world, in service of the common good.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2024 return the organization reported a significant change in how it conducts a program.
The vocation project no longer exists since last fiscal year. More emphasis and development have been assigned to the internship program.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 3).
Intern program - the consortium provides a national internship program in partnership with member centers. The internship program provides training, development and coaching for recent college graduates serving at christian study centers for one year. Interns receive experience in programming, operations and fundraising, and they develop a better understanding of their vocational goals and their place in god's kingdom. On a day-to-day basis, interns work with center staff to provide programming and opportunities for students. Over the course of the year, interns benefit from exposure to the study center movement through the consortium's annual meeting and other opportunities to interact with interns and staff at other study centers and foundations. Prayer initiative - another important service by the consortium is our prayer initiative, by which we encourage regular prayer by and for each other in whatever context the study center desires. We send this email monthly. It consists of prayer requests gathered from the study centers in a particular region. We have four regions, so each region's centers are prayed for three times per year. The importance of prayer cannot be…
$319,296 spent59% of program spendingResources and materials - the consortium uses the website, social media, and print materials to keep study center personnel connected to one another as well. A monthly "periscope" newsletter email goes out from the consortium office, letting readers know of important news around the world of study centers. This largely consists of events happening at our member centers, including everything from webinars to online discussion groups that anyone can join, to the various speakers, programs, and physical discussion groups happening locally at one of the centers. It also tells of significant events being put on by our partner organizations, important job openings at our member centers, and of course announcements concerning the annual meeting.
$106,500 spent$49,395 earned by the program20% of program spendingAnnual meeting - the annual meeting is a gathering that provides education, training, and the sharing of best practices for member study center staff, board members, and faculty. As both the number and size of centers has grown, the annual meeting has similarly scaled to provide over a dozen workshops to over 100 attendees. Specifically, the annual meeting usually consists of plenary sessions at which attendees can hear and dialogue with speakers-almost always members of the academy themselves-who will stimulate thinking about higher education in america and how christians inhabit it.
$80,544 spent$38,075 earned by the program15% of program spendingConsulting, teaching and evaluation services in the form of visits, consulting, teaching and evaluation services - the consortium provides phone calls and other means of communication to answer questions, connect organizations and people to each other to share expertise, and encourage participation in the programs of christian study centers at universities. This now includes consulting provided to steering committees of emerging centers that are not yet dues paying member centers.
$31,814 spent$171,546 earned by the program6% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $538,154.
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 2024 to 2025, from $340k to $1.4M (+321%).
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: 2020 11%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
86% of CONSORTIUM OF CHRISTIAN STUDY CENTERS’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (90% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 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
Karl E Johnson
Executive director
Board chair
Eugene Habecker
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $110k → $454k.
11 of 19 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 52% 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 CONSORTIUM OF CHRISTIAN STUDY CENTERS’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
CONSORTIUM OF CHRISTIAN STUDY CENTERS has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% 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
56% 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 CONSORTIUM OF CHRISTIAN STUDY CENTERS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 35% · 2018 44% · 2019 36% · 2020 38% · 2021 42% · 2022 35% · 2023 49% — 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
56% of CONSORTIUM OF CHRISTIAN STUDY CENTERS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% 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
52% of CONSORTIUM OF CHRISTIAN STUDY CENTERS'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 $1.0M that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Virginia, across 7 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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
CONSORTIUM OF CHRISTIAN STUDY CENTERS runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,211 religion nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,211 religion nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like CONSORTIUM OF CHRISTIAN STUDY CENTERS
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 Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
61% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
84%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 11 states
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CONSORTIUM OF CHRISTIAN STUDY CENTERS?
- CONSORTIUM OF CHRISTIAN STUDY CENTERS (Virginia) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,179,856 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($539,640). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 52% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does CONSORTIUM OF CHRISTIAN STUDY CENTERS have?
- IRS filings report 19 organizations giving $2,179,856 in grants to CONSORTIUM OF CHRISTIAN STUDY CENTERS, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CONSORTIUM OF CHRISTIAN STUDY CENTERS?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $539,640 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CONSORTIUM OF CHRISTIAN STUDY CENTERS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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 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