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INTERNATIONAL CHRISTIAN ADOPTIONS INSTITUTE FOR CHILDRENS AID
INTERNATIONAL CHRISTIAN ADOPTIONS INSTITUTE FOR CHILDRENS AID (California) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,452,092 to it, the largest being LUTHERAN IMMIGRATION & REFUGEE SERVICE INC DBA GLOBAL REFUGE ($5,309,895). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $7.3M
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $5.5M
- Net assets
- $3.5M
What International Christian Adoptions Institute for Childrens Aid does
Mission
To offer children hope in the love and compassion of jesus christ, hope for basic needs, hope for an education and bright future, and hope for a home in a family they can call their own. This is fulfilled through adoption, foster care, humanitarian aid counseling and support.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Institute for children's aid was built on the foundation of hospitality and sanctuary seeking to be a voice for those who cannot speak for themselves believing that all life is sacred. Ica works to promote and secure the emotional, spiritual and physical welfare of children who have been victimized, abandoned or persecuted; found in the streets, war zones, government run instituions, refugee camps or family homes. Ica actively engage in providing immigration and refugee resettlement services to those fleeing persecution, war, oppression and proverty and provides an environment of peaceful and humanitarian exchange to students and those who go abroad. Ica offers an environment where hard working artisans can be paid a fair wage and be given the dignity of self determination. Ica provides opportunities for orphans to experience culture and sense of family with camps to america and in their country.
$6,848,492 spent100% of program spendingDomestic programs provide licensed adoption and foster family agency services through the adoption triad with compassionate and caring services. The program also provides compassion and relief services to domestic orphanages as well children in domestic residential facilities. Relief services include goods delivered as well as foreign exchange programs, transition homes and micro businesses. Counseling and support center provides support groups and counseling services for birth parents, adopted children, adoptive parents, foster children and foster parents. Family training center provides classes to prepare the adoptive and foster families for the special development or emotional challenges that accompany children from institutional care. We provide ongoing support for the adoptive family and the children they are parenting including support groups and pre post placement. Ica has placed and worked with over 200 children this past year in placements for adoption.
International programs provide licensed adoption services through the adoptive triad with compassionate and caring services. The program also provides compassion and relief services to foreign orphanages. Relief services include goods delivered as well as foreign exchange programs, transition homes and micro businesses. Counseling and support center provides support groups and counseling services for birth parents, adopted children, adoptive parents, foster children and foster parents. Family training center provides classes to prepare the adoptive and foster families for the special development or emotional challenges that accompany children from institutional care. We provide ongoing support for the adoptive family and the children they are parenting including support groups and pre post placement.
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $6,848,492.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $1.7M to $2.6M (+56%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 73% · 2018 91% · 2019 96% · 2020 96% · 2021 97%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
1% of INTERNATIONAL CHRISTIAN ADOPTIONS INSTITUTE FOR CHILDRENS AID’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (97% for the typical peer).
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.
Board chair
Patrick Mclogan
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $14k → $45k.
2 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 INTERNATIONAL CHRISTIAN ADOPTIONS INSTITUTE FOR CHILDRENS AID’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 8 of 9 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
INTERNATIONAL CHRISTIAN ADOPTIONS INSTITUTE FOR CHILDRENS AID leans on a few funders — its largest provides 97% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 INTERNATIONAL CHRISTIAN ADOPTIONS INSTITUTE FOR CHILDRENS AID.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 71% · 2018 99% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 98% · 2023 82% — 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.
How long its funders stay
60% of INTERNATIONAL CHRISTIAN ADOPTIONS INSTITUTE FOR CHILDRENS AID's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 89% 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
INTERNATIONAL CHRISTIAN ADOPTIONS INSTITUTE FOR CHILDRENS AID draws 99% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 5 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $19k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
INTERNATIONAL CHRISTIAN ADOPTIONS INSTITUTE FOR CHILDRENS AID has grown faster than three-quarters of the 718 international nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 718 international nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding INTERNATIONAL CHRISTIAN ADOPTIONS INSTITUTE FOR CHILDRENS AID receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.1M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$1.1M
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like INTERNATIONAL CHRISTIAN ADOPTIONS INSTITUTE FOR CHILDRENS AID
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 California
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
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL CHRISTIAN ADOPTIONS INSTITUTE FOR CHILDRENS AID?
- INTERNATIONAL CHRISTIAN ADOPTIONS INSTITUTE FOR CHILDRENS AID (California) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,452,092 to it, the largest being LUTHERAN IMMIGRATION & REFUGEE SERVICE INC DBA GLOBAL REFUGE ($5,309,895). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does INTERNATIONAL CHRISTIAN ADOPTIONS INSTITUTE FOR CHILDRENS AID have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $5,452,092 in grants to INTERNATIONAL CHRISTIAN ADOPTIONS INSTITUTE FOR CHILDRENS AID, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of INTERNATIONAL CHRISTIAN ADOPTIONS INSTITUTE FOR CHILDRENS AID?
- LUTHERAN IMMIGRATION & REFUGEE SERVICE INC DBA GLOBAL REFUGE is the largest funder on record, with $5,309,895 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like INTERNATIONAL CHRISTIAN ADOPTIONS INSTITUTE FOR CHILDRENS AID 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 9 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