California · Nonprofit
INSTITUTE FOR CREDIBLE CHRISTIANITY
INSTITUTE FOR CREDIBLE CHRISTIANITY (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $235,888 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($204,586). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 88% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $133k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $236k
- Net assets
- $132k
What Institute for Credible Christianity does
Mission
It is to encourage Christians in their confidence in the reasonableness of the Christian Faith and in the reliability of the Bible and to encourage non-Christians to come to see the reasonableness of the faith and to embrace it. Principally, but not exclusively, the ministry is directed towards university students.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Europe mission: The speaking tour this year was March 29 to May 1. Speaking was in Lithuania (Vilnius, Kaunas), Switzerland (Basel, Muttenz, Zurich [2 talks]), Germany (Bremen, Stuttgart, Potsdam). Topics included "Somethingism," "Does Ethics Need God?", "Why Does God Allow So Much Evil and Suffering?", "The Qur'an and the Bible," "The Cost of Discipleship"
$9,420 spent78% of program spendingMinistry to university students in the US. The principle mission was overseeing UCSC Grad Christian Fellowship (affiliated with InterVarsity Christian Fellowship). It met weekly, usually on campus in the Grad Student Commons for Bible study. This year it was almost all international students - from Benin, Nigeria, Zambia, Kenya, and South Korea.
$1,682 spent14% of program spendingOther speaking: Peter gave seminars for the Mount Hermon Family Camps: The topics in the summer of 2024 were "The Gospel for Skeptics," "Why Does God Allow So Much Evil and Suffering?" For summer 2025, "The Reliability of the Gospels," "The Big Bang, the Origin of the Universe, and God." Peter also taught an adult ed Sunday School class at Peninsula Covenant Church.
$371 spent3% of program spendingInteracting with colleagues in ministry: Peter participated in the University Interfaith Council at UCSC, a group connecting various religious student with the university. It had monthly meetings. He was also a member of the Society of Christian Philosophers, the American Scientific Affiliation, and the China Academic Consortium. He also interacted with local pastors.
$677 spent6% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $12,150.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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 2023 to 2024, from $173k to $95k (−45%).
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.
100% of INSTITUTE FOR CREDIBLE CHRISTIANITY’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 3 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 3 funders, grant income rose $11k → $18k.
3 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 88% 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 INSTITUTE FOR CREDIBLE CHRISTIANITY’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
INSTITUTE FOR CREDIBLE CHRISTIANITY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 87% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
88% 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 INSTITUTE FOR CREDIBLE CHRISTIANITY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 53% · 2018 75% · 2019 59% · 2020 70% · 2021 73% · 2022 97% · 2023 90% — 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.
Where its funders are
88% of INSTITUTE FOR CREDIBLE CHRISTIANITY'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 $29k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $207k 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
INSTITUTE FOR CREDIBLE CHRISTIANITY receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $236k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,334 religion nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
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In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
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 INSTITUTE FOR CREDIBLE CHRISTIANITY: 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 INSTITUTE FOR CREDIBLE CHRISTIANITY?
- INSTITUTE FOR CREDIBLE CHRISTIANITY (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $235,888 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($204,586). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 88% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does INSTITUTE FOR CREDIBLE CHRISTIANITY have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $235,888 in grants to INSTITUTE FOR CREDIBLE CHRISTIANITY, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of INSTITUTE FOR CREDIBLE CHRISTIANITY?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $204,586 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like INSTITUTE FOR CREDIBLE CHRISTIANITY 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.
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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 2023–2025), and the filings of 4 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