Missouri · Nonprofit
FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES
FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES (Missouri) receives grants from 1469 organizations whose IRS filings report $180,495,528 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($58,083,244). 872 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 71% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $262M
- Funders on record
- 1,469
- Grants received
- $180M
- Net assets
- $165M
What Fellowship of Christian Athletes does
Mission
To lead every coach and athlete into a growing relationship with jesus christ and his church
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
To advance our mission (statement noted above) and our vision "to see the world transformed by jesus christ through the influence of coaches and athletes", fca focuses on cultivating christian principles by engaging, equipping and empowering coaches and athletes to know and grow in christ and lead others to do the same. Fca's reach spans across the professional, college, high school, junior high and youth levels. Fca develops programs, events and resources that minister "to and through" all constituents, both on and off compus, across the globe. Fca has grown to a staff of 3,175 employees, who in addition to their ministry efforts, solicit donations for the expansion of their program areas as well as resources. See schedule o for a summary of each area as well as key ministry accomplishments. Our methodsfca seeks to make disciples through our methods of engaging, equipping and empowering coaches and athletes to know and grow in christ and lead others to do the same.engage(1 thessalonians 2:8)we engage relationally by connecting with individuals and through events in many different environments by building genuine trust, sharing our lives and sharing the gospel. We strive to…
$205,817,804 spentof which $4,123,161 as grants$25,425,768 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $205,817,804.
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 $89M to $113M (+27%).
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. 0 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
Shane Williamson
President/CEO
Board chair
John Roise
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 352 funders to 565 funders, grant income rose $12M → $29M.
206 of 1469 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 71% 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: $5k 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 FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES raised.
From the IRS filings of FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 1469 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
FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 32% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
78% 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 FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 32% · 2018 36% · 2019 36% · 2020 42% · 2021 41% · 2022 33% · 2023 33% — 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
42% of FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% 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
71% of FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES'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 $52M that is directly attributable, 97% of it comes from funders outside Missouri, across 47 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $128M arriving through sponsors registered in 37 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 FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES
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 Missouri
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 19 states
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- South Dakota Fca LLC · disregarded
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES?
- FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES (Missouri) receives grants from 1469 organizations whose IRS filings report $180,495,528 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($58,083,244). 872 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 71% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES have?
- IRS filings report 1469 organizations giving $180,495,528 in grants to FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES, 872 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES?
- NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC is the largest funder on record, with $58,083,244 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Missouri. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 1469 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