Texas · Nonprofit
THE CHRISTIAN RELIEF FUND
THE CHRISTIAN RELIEF FUND (Texas) receives grants from 67 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,306,648 to it, the largest being RAINWATER CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($2,746,000). 48 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $14M
- Funders on record
- 67
- Grants received
- $7.3M
- Net assets
- $17M
What The Christian Relief Fund does
Mission
The Christian Relief Fund is a non-profit relief organization based in amarillo, texas focusing on rescuing orphans and vulnerable children from poverty. Crf operates child sponsorship programs dedicated to providing food, clean water, education, spiritual training, healthcare and disaster relief to the glory of god worldwide. Crf is dedicated to holistic growth for children in poverty: intellectually, physically, spiritually, and socially.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Monthly sponsorship and food distributions christian relief fund (crf) provided support for 9,317 children during the september 30, 2024 fiscal year. This support included providing food, clothing, paying for teachers to educate the children, full time care in orphanages, basic medical care, school uniforms, shoes, and counseling. These services were offered in areas all across the world including: -honduras -india -kenya -el salvador -liberia -ethiopia -mexico -guatemala -nicaragua -haiti -romania -uganda -ukraine -zimbabwe -malawi -united states -dominican republic (continued) water well development crf's hope water international drilling project continues to drill wells across kenya and haiti. These wells, along with crf's previous wells, are now providing clean, plentiful drinking water for an estimated 1,500,000 people on a daily basis. This water program is the first step in crf's community development process.
$11,630,234 spentof which $9,916,091 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $11,630,234.
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 2024 to 2025, from $15M to $17M (+15%).
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: 2021 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
96% of THE CHRISTIAN RELIEF FUND’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (96% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 11 funders to 41 funders, grant income rose $180k → $840k.
23 of 67 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 51% 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 THE CHRISTIAN RELIEF FUND’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 67 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
THE CHRISTIAN RELIEF FUND leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 61%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
53% 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 THE CHRISTIAN RELIEF FUND.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 36% · 2018 31% · 2019 23% · 2020 52% · 2021 34% · 2022 48% · 2023 33% — 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.
How long its funders stay
50% of THE CHRISTIAN RELIEF FUND's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 72% 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
51% of THE CHRISTIAN RELIEF FUND'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 $3.6M that is directly attributable, 85% of it comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.7M arriving through sponsors registered in 16 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
THE CHRISTIAN RELIEF FUND runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 190 international nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 190 international nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like THE CHRISTIAN RELIEF FUND
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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 21 states
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Bread for a Hungry World Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE CHRISTIAN RELIEF FUND: 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 THE CHRISTIAN RELIEF FUND?
- THE CHRISTIAN RELIEF FUND (Texas) receives grants from 67 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,306,648 to it, the largest being RAINWATER CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($2,746,000). 48 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does THE CHRISTIAN RELIEF FUND have?
- IRS filings report 67 organizations giving $7,306,648 in grants to THE CHRISTIAN RELIEF FUND, 48 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE CHRISTIAN RELIEF FUND?
- RAINWATER CHARITABLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,746,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE CHRISTIAN RELIEF FUND find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 67 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing