Tennessee · Nonprofit
CRESCENT PROJECT INC
CRESCENT PROJECT INC (Tennessee) receives grants from 32 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,839,508 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($962,839). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 77% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.1M
- Funders on record
- 32
- Grants received
- $1.8M
- Net assets
- $1.6M
What Crescent Project Inc does
Mission
Our mission is to inspire, encourage and equip the local church to share the love of jesus with muslims in word and deed.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The ministry is an inter-denominational christian mission agency with an international reach whose purpose is to mobilize the church, christian leaders, and resource other missions organizations with the same focus. While addressing fears, stereotypes and knowledge gaps, the ministry provides practical strategies equipping christian leaders and entire congregations domestically and internationally to effectively connect with muslims in their sphere of influence: neighbors, colleagues, and classmates. (continued on sch o)muslims make up the largest unreached people groups around the world. With this in mind, the ministry is taking up god's challenge to boldly move forward and further through strategically planting churches in muslim-dense countries, investing personally in the lives of muslim background believers ("mbb"), connecting unreached people to jesus through direct outreach initiatives and urgently equipping and mobilizing christians to directly engage with muslims. The ministry has grown to now have influence and work in 107 countries.
$1,426,354 spentof which $107,967 as grants$59,655 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,426,354.
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.
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 $861k to $1.3M (+47%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 8 funders, grant income fell $343k → $177k.
12 of 32 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 77% 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 CRESCENT PROJECT INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 32 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
CRESCENT PROJECT INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 52% of grant income and the top three 72%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
87% 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 CRESCENT PROJECT INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 44% · 2018 58% · 2019 87% · 2020 64% · 2021 65% · 2022 53% · 2023 44% — 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.
How long its funders stay
29% of CRESCENT PROJECT INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 41% 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
77% of CRESCENT PROJECT INC'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 $428k that is directly attributable, 98% of it comes from funders outside Tennessee, across 10 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.4M 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.
Organizations like CRESCENT PROJECT INC
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 Tennessee
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
94%
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 CRESCENT PROJECT INC: 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 CRESCENT PROJECT INC?
- CRESCENT PROJECT INC (Tennessee) receives grants from 32 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,839,508 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($962,839). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 77% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does CRESCENT PROJECT INC have?
- IRS filings report 32 organizations giving $1,839,508 in grants to CRESCENT PROJECT INC, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CRESCENT PROJECT INC?
- NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC is the largest funder on record, with $962,839 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CRESCENT PROJECT INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Tennessee. 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 32 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