Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
RED LETTER CHRISTIANS
RED LETTER CHRISTIANS (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $253,014 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($68,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 70% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $369k
- Funders on record
- 13
- Grants received
- $253k
- Net assets
- $252k
What Red Letter Christians does
Mission
Staying true to the foundation of combining jesus and justice, Red Letter Christians mobilizes individuals into a movement of believers who live out jesus' counter-cultural teachings.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Program 1: public witness & movement building primary focus: red letter revivals, public vigils, and anti-christian nationalism initiatives in a year marked by significant national division, Red Letter Christians (rlc) successfully mobilized a broad, multi-racial coalition of faith leaders to champion a vision of christianity centered on jesus's teachings of peace and justice. Rlc hosted three 'red letter revivals' in santa ana, ca, philadelphia, pa, and a week-long virtual series. These events reached thousands globally as a direct, non-partisan counter-narrative to christian nationalism. These events were created in collaboration with local advisory councils comprising pastors, activists, and those directly impacted by injustice, ensuring that national movement-building remained rooted in local service. Additionally, rlc led a collaborative good friday vigil and action at lockheed martin in king of prussia in association with the international gaza ceasefire pilgrimage, providing a faithful public witness for peace and calling for an end to the profiteering of war by weapons manufacturers.
$228,329 spentof which $31,689 as grants$45,455 earned by the program80% of program spendingProgram 2: resource development & spiritual formation primary focus: digital content, devotionals, and weekly community engagement to sustain and equip the movement long term, rlc provided consistent spiritual formation and educational resources to a global audience. We hosted 12 virtual book clubs and 12 morning prayer events, intentionally amplifying diverse voices from the margins to lead the church toward a more just future. In response to the humanitarian crisis in the holy land, rlc launched a specialized christmas devotional series for advent which featured primarily palestinian voices calling for an end to the genocide and mobilizing our community toward advocacy and relief, all in alignment with the church calendar. Our weekly podcast and regular social media execution alerts continued to serve as a vital conduit for justice, educating the public on issues of state-sanctioned violence and the biblical call to abolish the death penalty.
$57,557 spent20% of program spendingProgram 3: leadership development & collaborative advocacy primary focus: peacemaker summit, co forum, and legacy stewardship we co-hosted the inaugural peacemaker summit in philadelphia, bringing together over 100 practitioners to share best practices in peacemaking, kingian nonviolence, and participate in hands-on demonstrations in forging, welding, and woodturning. Rlc also launched a comprehensive conscientious objector (co) resource page on our website and hosted a virtual forum to support young people navigating faith-based objections to war. Finally, following the passing of our co-founder tony campolo, we hosted a global virtual celebration of his life on his 90th birthday, that was rooted in his legacy to inspire a new generation of leaders to live out the 'red letters' of the gospel in their local communities.
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $285,886.
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 2022 to 2023, from $115k to $270k (+135%).
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.
86% of RED LETTER CHRISTIANS’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. 4 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
Rev Dr Todd Yeary
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 5 funders, grant income rose $31k → $70k.
8 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 70% 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 RED LETTER 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
RED LETTER CHRISTIANS has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 27% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
90% 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 RED LETTER CHRISTIANS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 33% · 2018 63% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 67% · 2022 99% · 2023 71% — 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
13% of RED LETTER CHRISTIANS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 46% 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
70% of RED LETTER 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 $77k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Pennsylvania, across 4 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $176k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
RED LETTER CHRISTIANS is better cushioned than half of the 7,334 religion nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,334 religion nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like RED LETTER CHRISTIANS
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 Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
80% 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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for RED LETTER 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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Questions and answers
- Who funds RED LETTER CHRISTIANS?
- RED LETTER CHRISTIANS (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $253,014 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($68,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 70% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does RED LETTER CHRISTIANS have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $253,014 in grants to RED LETTER CHRISTIANS, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of RED LETTER CHRISTIANS?
- NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC is the largest funder on record, with $68,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like RED LETTER CHRISTIANS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 13 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