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STRATEGIC CHRISTIAN MINISTRY FOUNDATION

STRATEGIC CHRISTIAN MINISTRY FOUNDATION (Illinois) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $12,000 to it, the largest being Barnabas Foundation ($12,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$61k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$12k
Net assets
$36k
0/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 22%
01What it does

What Strategic Christian Ministry Foundation does

Mission

To meet emergency needs in urban chicago see the attached statement

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Programs

  1. Program grants to churches and church related support groups in accordance with the organization's primary exempt purpose (see attached statement).

    $25,998 spent
    43% of program spending
  2. Grants to churches, church affiliates and other organizations that offer aid in accordance with the organization's primary exempt purpose (see attached statement).

    $34,400 spent
    57% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $60,398.

02The 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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($54k) Expenses 100 ($44k) Net assets 100 ($40k)2020 Revenue 56 ($30k) Expenses 92 ($41k) Net assets 122 ($49k)2021 Revenue 77 ($42k) Expenses 93 ($41k) Net assets 124 ($49k)2022 Revenue 94 ($51k) Expenses 107 ($47k) Net assets 133 ($53k)2023 Revenue 66 ($36k) Expenses 118 ($52k) Net assets 93 ($37k)2024 Revenue 87 ($47k) Expenses 109 ($48k) Net assets 91 ($36k)2025 Revenue 113 ($61k) Expenses 139 ($61k) Net assets 90 ($36k)
2017202020212022202320242025
Revenue (113)Expenses (139)Net assets (90)

Balance sheet

Total assets at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $53k to $37k (−30%).

$40k
$49k
$49k
$53k
$37k
$36k
$36k
2017202020212022202320242025
Total assets

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
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

$10k
’17
−$10k
’20
$716
’21
$4k
’22
−$16k
’23
−$879
’24
−$158
’25
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'17
total
funders
1

1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 STRATEGIC CHRISTIAN MINISTRY FOUNDATION’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.

Where its funders are

100% of STRATEGIC CHRISTIAN MINISTRY FOUNDATION'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $12k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.

04Its place in the field

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05Profile & governance

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.

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Questions and answers

Who funds STRATEGIC CHRISTIAN MINISTRY FOUNDATION?
STRATEGIC CHRISTIAN MINISTRY FOUNDATION (Illinois) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $12,000 to it, the largest being Barnabas Foundation ($12,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does STRATEGIC CHRISTIAN MINISTRY FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $12,000 in grants to STRATEGIC CHRISTIAN MINISTRY FOUNDATION.
Who is the largest funder of STRATEGIC CHRISTIAN MINISTRY FOUNDATION?
Barnabas Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $12,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like STRATEGIC CHRISTIAN MINISTRY FOUNDATION find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 1 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