South Carolina · Nonprofit
CROSS CONNECTING NETWORK
CROSS CONNECTING NETWORK (South Carolina) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $628,159 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($271,900). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 82% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $918k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $628k
- Net assets
- $257k
What Cross Connecting Network does
Mission
The Cross Connecting Network connects people ideas and resources to support the global Church through networking church planting leadership and vocational training community development and humanitarian aid.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2024 return the organization reported a significant change in how it conducts a program.
CCN no longer supports work in Uganda.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 3).
In Pakistan CCN assisted in leadership development trainig for pastors youth and businesmen; vocational training for women; education for children; collaboration within a church networ; strengthening churches to meet the needs of their communities with initiatives reaching marginalized women; community development; church planting and education; church and school building projects. CCN also assisted in disaster response to natural and man-made disasters.
$969,009 spent91% of program spendingCCN built relationships with partners in networking leadership development church planting; vocational training; education and community development including building projects. CCN continued to serve in disaster response as needed.
$100,534 spent9% of program spendingNot described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,069,543.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 $451k to $257k (−43%).
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 CROSS CONNECTING NETWORK’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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
Jerry Miner
CEO Founder
Board chair
Jonathan Bennett
Chairman of Board
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $60k → $105k.
4 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 82% 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 CROSS CONNECTING NETWORK’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
CROSS CONNECTING NETWORK leans on a few funders — its largest provides 43% of grant income and the top three 95%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
83% 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 CROSS CONNECTING NETWORK.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 83% · 2020 100% · 2021 62% · 2022 62% · 2023 57% — 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
25% of CROSS CONNECTING NETWORK's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
82% of CROSS CONNECTING NETWORK'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 $114k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside South Carolina, across 4 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $514k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
CROSS CONNECTING NETWORK's revenue grew 16% between 2021 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,334 religion nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like CROSS CONNECTING NETWORK
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In South Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
96% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
54%
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 CROSS CONNECTING NETWORK: 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 CROSS CONNECTING NETWORK?
- CROSS CONNECTING NETWORK (South Carolina) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $628,159 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($271,900). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 82% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does CROSS CONNECTING NETWORK have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $628,159 in grants to CROSS CONNECTING NETWORK, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CROSS CONNECTING NETWORK?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $271,900 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CROSS CONNECTING NETWORK find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in South Carolina. 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 8 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