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Form 990 for tax year 2024

Filed by Christians Engaged.

Totals

Total revenue
$1,961,836
Total expenses
$2,195,335
Contributions and grants received
$1,908,811
Grants paid
$718,613
Program service revenue
$52,387
Investment income
$448
Other revenue
$190
Total assets, end of year
$0
Total liabilities, end of year
$0
Net assets or fund balances, end of year
$0
Program services expenses (Part IX)
$2,036,169
Management and general expenses
$58,894
Fundraising expenses
$100,272
Program service expenses (Part III)
$2,036,169

Program services were 92.7% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

Line items

Every line the filer filed in Parts VIII, IX and X, as filed and in filed order. Blank columns are left out, and the lines are not forced to add up to the totals above.

Revenue

Part VIII, the statement of revenue.

  • 1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants

    $1,908,811

  • 2a · Program service revenue: Conference Fees

    total $47,248 · related or exempt $47,248

  • 2b · Program service revenue: Educational Classes

    total $5,139 · related or exempt $5,139

  • 2f · All other program service revenue

    total $0 · related or exempt $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0

  • 3 · Investment income

    total $448 · excluded $448

  • 6c · Rental income or loss

    real property $0 · personal property $0

  • 7c · Gain or loss

    securities $0 · other assets $0

  • 8c · Net income from fundraising events

    total $0

  • 10a · Gross sales of inventory

    $18,443

  • 10b · Cost of goods sold

    $18,253

  • 10c · Net income from sales of inventory

    total $190 · excluded $190

  • 11d · All other revenue

    total $0 · related or exempt $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0

  • 11e · Other revenue, total

    $0

Functional expenses

Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.

  • 1 · Grants to domestic organizations and governments

    total $718,613 · program services $718,613

  • 5 · Compensation of officers, directors and key employees

    total $268,356 · program services $234,836 · management and general $16,760 · fundraising $16,760

  • 7 · Other salaries and wages

    total $52,737 · program services $47,237 · management and general $5,500

  • 9 · Other employee benefits

    total $11,210 · program services $10,042 · management and general $1,168

  • 10 · Payroll taxes

    total $26,121 · program services $22,870 · management and general $1,874 · fundraising $1,377

  • 11b · Fees: legal

    total $6,513 · management and general $6,513

  • 11c · Fees: accounting

    total $15,673 · management and general $15,673

  • 11e · Fees: professional fundraising services

    total $64,425 · fundraising $64,425

  • 11g · Fees: other

    total $16,911 · program services $16,911 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

  • 12 · Advertising and promotion

    total $563,964 · program services $563,964

  • 13 · Office expenses

    total $55,976 · program services $31,010 · management and general $7,256 · fundraising $17,710

  • 14 · Information technology

    total $39,845 · program services $39,845

  • 15 · Royalties

    total $11,191 · program services $11,191

  • 16 · Occupancy

    total $8,619 · program services $5,653 · management and general $2,966

  • 17 · Travel

    total $54,465 · program services $54,465

  • 19 · Conferences, conventions and meetings

    total $155,792 · program services $155,792

  • 22 · Depreciation, depletion and amortization

    total $225 · program services $225

  • 23 · Insurance

    total $1,184 · management and general $1,184

  • 24a · Other expenses: Resource Development

    total $64,361 · program services $64,361

  • 24b · Other expenses: Outreach & Evangelism

    total $59,154 · program services $59,154

  • 24e · All other expenses

    total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

Balance sheet

Part X, book values.

  • 1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing

    beginning of year $214,401 · end of year $0

  • 2 · Savings and temporary cash investments

    end of year $0

  • 5 · Loans and receivables from officers and key people

    end of year $0

  • 6 · Loans and receivables from disqualified persons

    end of year $0

  • 8 · Inventories for sale or use

    beginning of year $18,253

  • 10a · Land, buildings and equipment: cost or other basis

    $0

  • 10b · Land, buildings and equipment: accumulated depreciation

    $0

  • 10c · Land, buildings and equipment, net

    beginning of year $845 · end of year $0

  • 12 · Investments: other securities

    beginning of year $0

  • 13 · Investments: program-related

    beginning of year $0

  • 15 · Other assets

    beginning of year $0 · end of year $0

  • 22 · Loans and payables to officers and key people

    end of year $0

  • 25 · Other liabilities

    beginning of year $0 · end of year $0

  • 27 · Net assets without donor restrictions

    beginning of year $233,499 · end of year $0

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

To awaken, educate, and empower believers in Jesus Christ to: Pray for our nation and elected officials regularly; Vote in every local, state, and national election to impact our culture; Engage our hearts in civic education or involvement for the well-being of our local communities and our nation.

  • In 2024, Christians Engaged, a non-partisan civic engagement discipleship ministry, awakened, educated and empowered Christians all over America - adding in another 60 national, state wide, or local ministries and churches through our in-person programs, weekend seminars, or our strategic ministry partnership program - with no cost to them. Historically, we now have served 195 churches or ministries in some capacity - as we work with them to do voter registration drives, mobilize members through our pledge to pray, vote, and engage, and to use our educational products. At the end of 2024, we had 102 on-going ministry partners that we work with monthly. Having built the only 501(c)3 protected "get out the vote" voter mobilization communication system for Christians across all 50 states, this "take the pledge" system not only motivates Christians to register to vote but encourages them to vote in every election - local, primaries, and general elections from a biblical perspective. Leading up to each election, those enrolled receive reminders to vote and are equipped with research materials from a non partisan Christian perspective. This system is unique for the Body of Christ. Quadrupling in 2024 from 200,000 to 850,000 people opting in to this communication system, these Christians received our weekly communications on prayer, voting, and engagement and voting reminders leading up to their local elections, special elections, primaries, runoffs and the important general election in 2024. On top of that growth, we also sent 33 million emails and hundreds of thousands of texts to Christians across the nation to vote in the 2024 election. The ministry has people in all 50 states who have taken the pledge to pray, vote, and engage and we are growing around the nation through strategic ministry partnerships with national ministries and local churches, public relations on Christian TV, radio, and podcasts, and mass marketing to Christians online. We held our fourth national conference featuring nationally recognized speakers from ministry and government and facilitated an impactful Washington DC trip with three focused days on "pray, vote, and engage" in our nation's capital including 26 young people (18-30 years old) on scholarship. Through those live events - we are mentoring and moving people into their specific callings related to prayer, voting, or engagement. Online and educational activities included releasing three new full on demand video curriculum packages: Biblical Worldview: Answers for Difficult Days, Biblical Conduct: Answers for Difficult Days, and a full 20-hour Campaign School partnering with Kingdom in Politics. In addition, the organization published another 100 Online articles in 2024 (making the number 550 over 5 years), produced 52 podcast episodes of Conversations with Christians Engaged, a weekly show on audio and video, with educational conversations with elected officials, ministry leaders, and subject leader experts, that were distributed by Edifi app (Christian Post) and The Stream as well. We also laid the groundwork for two new podcast releases that launched January 2025 - The 1630 Show - to reach young adults and - Jesus for America - a devotional show during the weekdays to encourage people to understand the Word of God during their busy lifestyles. The Christians Engaged Biblical Roadmap to the Party platforms was downloaded over 15,000 times by new people coming to our website, not counting the downloads from our voting reminders and guides. We also had 650,000+ website hits and 1,250,000+ downloads of our podcast or views of our videos in 2024. On the resource side, Christians Engaged continued to give away small books to Christians who took our pledge to pray, vote, and engage in churches and through volunteers giving approximately 3,000 books away and facilitating a Book Club and tour for our founders' national release - Jesus and Politics: One Woman's walk with God in a Mudslinging Profession. By the end of 2024, in just five short years, Christians Engaged has done collectively 774 speaking engagements, media appearances, or online events by our team (225 of those in 2024). By the end of 2024, over 2,500 people have gone through one of our full curriculum courses online or in person at a church. With a strategic merger with Family Policy Alliance Foundation in 2024, we become their church and civic engagement ministry for the nation, and our team is posed to impact the nation even more in the months and years ahead. We believe the church is the answer for America and we are committed to awakening the church and empowering her to do the work of prayer, voting and engaging for the wellbeing of the nation that we all love.

    Expenses $2,036,169 · Grants $718,613 · Revenue $52,387

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Listed in Part VII

  • Ben Quine

    Vice President & Director (Part Year)

    Total calculated
    $100,753
    From this org
    $83,852
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $16,901
    Hours/week
    40
  • Bunni Pounds

    President & Director (Part Year)

    Total calculated
    $167,603
    From this org
    $152,178
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $15,425
    Hours/week
    45

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $125,081
    Bonus
    $26,750
    Other
    $347
    Deferred
    $3,063
    Nontaxable benefits
    $12,362
    Filer's total
    $167,603
  • David Halvorson

    Secretary (Part Year)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Jim Goodloe

    Chairman

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5 + 1 related
  • Lt Gen Patrick P Caruana MS

    Chair ( Part Year)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5 + 1 related
  • Scott Jones

    Chair/Vice Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 0.5 related
  • Bibi Loyola

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Dorothy Brooks

    Director (Part Year)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Jason Ross

    Director (Part Year)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related
  • Joe Paradiso

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5 + 1 related
  • Kim Winblood

    Director (Part Year)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related
  • Kyle Martin

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5 + 1 related
  • Ladonna Lee

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5 + 1 related
  • Lewis Hogan

    Director (Part Year)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related
  • Marnie Freeman

    Director (Part Year)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related
  • Michael Geer

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5 + 1 related
  • Rosel Cloud

    Director (Part Year)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 35 related
  • Tim Goeglein

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5 + 35 related
  • Victoria Cobb

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5 + 35 related
  • Craig DeRoche

    CEO

    Total calculated
    $257,447
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $208,522
    Other
    $48,925
    Hours/week
    10 + 35 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $0 + $202,929 related
    Bonus
    $0 + $250 related
    Other
    $0 + $5,343 related
    Deferred
    $0 + $6,451 related
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0 + $42,474 related
    Filer's total
    $0 + $257,447 related
  • Rhonda Bogner

    Treasurer & Chief Operating Officer

    Total calculated
    $100,078
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $94,634
    Other
    $5,444
    Hours/week
    10 + 35 related
  • Sonja Swiatkiewicz

    Secretary & Chief of Staff

    Total calculated
    $149,969
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $139,085
    Other
    $10,884
    Hours/week
    10 + 35 related

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us.

Schedule J

Answered yes

  • 3 · Written employment contract
  • 3 · Approval by the board or compensation committee

Answered no

  • 4a · Severance or change-of-control payment
  • 4b · Supplemental nonqualified retirement plan
  • 4c · Equity-based compensation arrangement
  • 5a · Pay contingent on this organization's revenues
  • 5b · Pay contingent on a related organization's revenues
  • 6a · Pay contingent on this organization's net earnings
  • 6b · Pay contingent on a related organization's net earnings
  • 7 · Other non-fixed payments
  • 8 · Paid under the initial-contract exception

Part I's answers as filed. A line not listed was left unanswered; on lines 1a and 3 that means the box was not checked.

Grants on this return

Related organizations on this return

Schedule R Part II: tax-exempt organizations related to the filer by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

  • Family Policy Alliance

    501(c)(4) · Inspire people to live out biblical citizenship that transforms culture · CO

    Directly controlled by NA

  • Family Policy Alliance Foundation

    501(c)(3) · Inspire/educate biblical citizens, equip statesmen & serve a nat'l alliance · CO

    Directly controlled by Family Policy Alliance

  • Family Policy PAC

    527 · Engaging in exempt function political campaign activities · CO

    Directly controlled by Family Policy Alliance

Assets distributed on this return

Schedule N, as filed: what the organization did with its assets when it liquidated or dissolved, or disposed of more than a quarter of them, and who received them. A recipient with an EIN is usually a successor organization; filers also list expenses such as legal fees here.

3 distributions to recipients named as people, $718,613 in total. Counted where the filer named the recipient as a person, as filed. Who received them, and what, are not published.

Provenance

Return type
form_990
Tax year
2024
Filed
23 June 2025
IRS schema version
2024v5.1
Source object
202521749349301062

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