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Zion Christian Ministries

Zion Christian Ministries (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,438 to it, the largest being CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA FOOD BANK ($1,200). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$55k
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$1k
Net assets
$908k
2/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 1%
01What it does

What Zion Christian Ministries does

Mission

Provide facilities where people can fellowship be taught Gods Word and share Gods love with the world.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Gifts to missions and missionaries around the world.

    $23,260 spent
    79% of program spending
  2. Benevolence to those in need.

    $6,009 spent
    21% of program spending
  3. Not described on the e-filed return.

    $0 spent
    0% of program spending
  4. Other program services, not described on the e-filed return.

    $0 spent
    0% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $29,269.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.

100 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($62k) Expenses 100 ($68k) Net assets 100 ($915k)2021 Revenue 144 ($89k) Expenses 128 ($87k) Net assets 100 ($917k)2022 Revenue 103 ($63k) Expenses 110 ($74k) Net assets 99 ($907k)2023 Revenue 104 ($64k) Expenses 97 ($66k) Net assets 99 ($905k)2024 Revenue 82 ($51k) Expenses 73 ($50k) Net assets 99 ($906k)2025 Revenue 90 ($55k) Expenses 79 ($53k) Net assets 99 ($908k)
202020212022202320242025
Revenue (90)Expenses (79)Net assets (99)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $917k to $907k (−1%).

$915k
$917k
$907k
$905k
$906k
$908k
202020212022202320242025
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

−$6k
’20
$2k
’21
−$11k
’22
−$2k
’23
$1k
’24
$2k
’25
1.1
months of
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.

202020212022202320242025
Listed543333
Joined·+0+0+0+0+0
No longer listed·11000
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $0 → $45.

Funder
'17
'18
'19
'20
'21
'22
'23
'24*
'25*
total
funders
1
1
1
2
2
2
2
1
1

1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 17% 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 Zion Christian Ministries’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

Zion Christian Ministries leans on a few funders — its largest provides 83% 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

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 Zion Christian Ministries.

83%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 76% · 2021 94% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — 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

100% of Zion Christian Ministries's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.

PA

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’20
’21
Pennsylvania out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $238 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

Organizations like Zion Christian Ministries

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

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

55% of spending goes to programs.

Program 55%Management 45%Fundraising 0%

Governance

10
board members
0%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

PA

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Zion Christian Ministries: 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 Zion Christian Ministries?
Zion Christian Ministries (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,438 to it, the largest being CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA FOOD BANK ($1,200). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Zion Christian Ministries have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $1,438 in grants to Zion Christian Ministries, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Zion Christian Ministries?
CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA FOOD BANK is the largest funder on record, with $1,200 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Zion Christian Ministries 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.

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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 2020–2025), and the filings of 2 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