California · Nonprofit
CORNERSTONE MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL
CORNERSTONE MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL (California) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,646,573 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($1,682,060). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 64% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.9M
- Funders on record
- 13
- Grants received
- $2.6M
- Net assets
- $1.4M
What Cornerstone Ministries International does
Mission
To seek the lost sheeps of god and comfort them, make the disciples of jesus christ, and to work together in holy spirit, to build the kingdom of god in the gospel restricted nations where christians are being persecuted because of their faith in jesus christ.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Delivering bibles and christian literatures to persecuted churches in the gospel restricted nations such as north korea, china, minoirities in china, islamic nations, and israel with the combined effort of other partnering ministries, mission organizations, and individual missionaries. Have distributed 139,390 bibles including 102,052 chinese bibles,31,675 north korean bibles, 5,663 hebrew and arabic bibles. We have published 1,235 copies of the 'south and north korean parallel bible' so that north korean refugees living in south korea can read the north korean bibles in parallel with the south korean bible. We printed north korean bibles including the parallel bibles in preparation for the opening of north korea. We are broadcasting 90 minutes of christian radio programs over short and medium wave to reach believers and christian leaders in north korea and overseas. We read north korean bibles at dictating speeed over radio. We produced and broadcasted over the short wave 90 minutes per every day and produced 60 minutes worship service and broadcast on sunday and other bible teaching 30 minutes on wednesday on am frequency.
$256,631 spentof which $148,481 as grants18% of program spendingRaising up leaders in the restricted nations for them to minister to propogating the gospel of jesus christ by having bibles school, seminaries teaching, and conferences along with the other ministries, missionaries, and organizations. Equip potential leaders among korean living in korea and living around the world to enter into the restricted mission field. 387 students took classes on-line and off-line at 10 teaching sites in 8 cities, 75 students graduated from 6 teaching sites. We provided scholarships to 15 students, additionally supported the insufficient finances of 2 branch teaching sites, and supported local pastors who are serving as a local leader for church planting and mission. We continued to support a theological college in india, and provided leader's training in vietnam, and supported other mission organizations for leadership training in israel. We have supported bible schools in the far western part of china training 12 students.
$243,592 spentof which $187,895 as grants17% of program spendingFacilitating and supporting missionaries for networking and partnering with other ministries and training people to be missionaries in korea and in the restricted nations. The mission confernces were held in january and july with 728 participants. A total of 294 people were trained in 10-12 weeks long courses to prepare to go to mission field. These courses includes inner healing, worship and praise, biblical foundation for mission, community development program as well as international diaster response classes. Training took place in indo-china nations and trained 27 miisionaries. In 2024, 4,095 people were evangelizedin laos, cambodia, myanmar, and vietnam. Among them, workers are preparing bases for missions to china and north korea.
$464,376 spentof which $328,211 as grants33% of program spendingNetworking with the existing local leaders and pastors of the persecuted church in north korea and china to assist them furthering in church planting and pastoring churches in their communities. We have facilitated and assisted those pastors who were willing to plant a church in their neighborhood. During the pandemic period, travel between north korea and china was restricted. Yet, we were continuing to train north koreans who are stranded in china. We have trained 60 leaders in china, north korea, and south korea in 2024. In 2024, 27 churches were planted in 15 regions. We also have started training leaders in south korea to mobilize north korean defectors for the nk mission. We implemented digital methods to train north koreans in china. In 2024, god has allowed to send 2,564 sd cards, 624 usbs containing bibles and the training materials.
$357,488 spentof which $340,269 as grants25% of program spendingProviding humanitarian assistance to needy people in north korea, refugees of north korea in china along the border, defectors of north korea in south korea, north korean orphans and nk widows in china, and other nations. Through humanitarian assistance, we shared the love of jesus christ and to meet their immediate survival needs. We assisted the needy people in the gospel restricted nations with foods, clothes, medicines, basic human necessary items. We also partnersing with other ministries, ngo, missionaries, and organizations. We were able to provide to our church network and helpers. Rice flours weredelivered to 235 families and neighbors through church networks. We have helped to provide foods to orphans. We sent christmas gifts to north korean children. We also have provided human basis necessity items to those north koreans in china, russia, and mongolia to share the gospel of jesus christ.
$93,831 spentof which $43,020 as grants7% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,415,918.
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 $1.7M to $1.3M (−22%).
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.
98% of CORNERSTONE MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (97% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 5 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
Peter Lee
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $24k → $796k.
3 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 64% 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 CORNERSTONE MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL’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
CORNERSTONE MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 64% of grant income and the top three 86%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
95% 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 CORNERSTONE MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 70% · 2018 59% · 2019 91% · 2020 94% · 2021 90% · 2022 84% · 2023 74% — 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
33% of CORNERSTONE MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% 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
64% of CORNERSTONE MINISTRIES 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 $958k that is directly attributable, 98% of it comes from funders outside California, across 9 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.7M 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
CORNERSTONE MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 1,607 international nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,607 international nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like CORNERSTONE MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL
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In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CORNERSTONE MINISTRIES 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 CORNERSTONE MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL?
- CORNERSTONE MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL (California) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,646,573 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($1,682,060). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 64% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does CORNERSTONE MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $2,646,573 in grants to CORNERSTONE MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CORNERSTONE MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL?
- NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,682,060 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CORNERSTONE MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 13 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