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GOSPEL OPERATION INTERNATIONAL FOR CHINESE CHRISTIANS

GOSPEL OPERATION INTERNATIONAL FOR CHINESE CHRISTIANS (California) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $335,678 to it, the largest being Schwab Charitable Fund ($158,406). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 97% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

$1.4M
Revenue FY2024
7
Funders on record
$336k
Grants received
$7.7M
Net assets
3/7 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 4%

Against its field

GOSPEL OPERATION INTERNATIONAL FOR CHINESE CHRISTIANS runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,384 religion nonprofits its size.

Operating margin26% · top quartile
Months of reserve13.5mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)7% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,384 religion nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($869k) Expenses 100 ($660k) Net assets 100 ($5.0M)2018 Revenue 104 ($901k) Expenses 145 ($958k) Net assets 98 ($4.9M)2019 Revenue 121 ($1.0M) Expenses 99 ($652k) Net assets 107 ($5.4M)2020 Revenue 173 ($1.5M) Expenses 128 ($842k) Net assets 120 ($6.0M)2021 Revenue 216 ($1.9M) Expenses 147 ($973k) Net assets 138 ($6.9M)2022 Revenue 153 ($1.3M) Expenses 178 ($1.2M) Net assets 140 ($7.0M)2023 Revenue 144 ($1.3M) Expenses 164 ($1.1M) Net assets 145 ($7.3M)2024 Revenue 161 ($1.4M) Expenses 158 ($1.0M) Net assets 153 ($7.7M)
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Revenue (161)Expenses (158)Net assets (153)Peer revenue range

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

81% of GOSPEL OPERATION INTERNATIONAL FOR CHINESE CHRISTIANS’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (90% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 2,725 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$209k
17
$57k
18
$397k
19
$663k
20
$902k
21
$158k
22
$170k
23
$357k
24
14
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose $15k → $34k.

4 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)97% 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 GOSPEL OPERATION INTERNATIONAL FOR CHINESE CHRISTIANS’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

GOSPEL OPERATION INTERNATIONAL FOR CHINESE CHRISTIANS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 47% of grant income and the top three 94%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

99% 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 GOSPEL OPERATION INTERNATIONAL FOR CHINESE CHRISTIANS.

47%
largest funder
94%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 86% · 2018 83% · 2019 73% · 2020 61% · 2021 88% · 2022 56% · 2023 51%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.

Where its funders are

97% of GOSPEL OPERATION INTERNATIONAL FOR CHINESE CHRISTIANS'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 $12k that is directly attributable, 66% of it comes from funders outside California, across 2 states.

MN
CA

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

18
19
21
California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $324k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 statesis 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like GOSPEL OPERATION INTERNATIONAL FOR CHINESE CHRISTIANS

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In California

Nationally

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

55% of spending goes to programs.

Program 55%Management 42%Fundraising 3%

Governance

19
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

Part of a family of 5 related entities

  • Gospel Operation International USA · exempt
  • Gospel Op Intl Canada Inc · exempt
  • Goi Thailand Foundation · exempt
  • Gospel Operation Africa · exempt
  • Goi for Chineese Christians Singapore · exempt

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for GOSPEL OPERATION INTERNATIONAL FOR CHINESE CHRISTIANS: 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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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds GOSPEL OPERATION INTERNATIONAL FOR CHINESE CHRISTIANS?
GOSPEL OPERATION INTERNATIONAL FOR CHINESE CHRISTIANS (California) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $335,678 to it, the largest being Schwab Charitable Fund ($158,406). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 97% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does GOSPEL OPERATION INTERNATIONAL FOR CHINESE CHRISTIANS have?
IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $335,678 in grants to GOSPEL OPERATION INTERNATIONAL FOR CHINESE CHRISTIANS, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of GOSPEL OPERATION INTERNATIONAL FOR CHINESE CHRISTIANS?
Schwab Charitable Fund is the largest funder on record, with $158,406 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like GOSPEL OPERATION INTERNATIONAL FOR CHINESE CHRISTIANS 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 7funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing