CHRISTIAN ALLIANCE FOR ORPHANS

As filed

Subsection

03

NTEE code

P193

Classification

1000

Street

6723 WHITTIER AVE STE 202

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Mission and programs · 2024

• Advocacy and Education - Central to CAFO's work is to inspire and equip "champions" for well-informed, highly effective service to orphans, foster youth, and other vulnerable children and families, both across the U.S. and worldwide. These champions include adoptive and foster parents, advocates, social workers, pastors and church staff, volunteers, national leaders in developing nations, and leaders and staff of child-serving organizations. This work takes shape especially through focused initiatives that unite an expansive range of organizations, churches, and individuals in coordinated action for profound collective impact. These include CAFO Global Networks, the More than Enough initiative, the Pure Religion Project (building on the legacy of Orphan Sunday and Stand Sunday),the National Church Ministry Initiative, the Center on Applied Research for Vulnerable Children and Families, the Aging Out Initiative, the Institute for Family Centered Healing & Health, the Development and Discipleship Initiative, and other targeted programs. This work also involves a wide range of communication efforts to build awareness and effective engagement, including three podcast series, regular interviews in both Christian and mainstream media, articles and opinion editorials, speaking and teaching at conferences and other events, the CAFO blog, CAFO's monthly newsletter and other e-information, strategic use of Facebook, Twitter and other social media, videos and other visual media products, phone and in-person meetings with thought leaders, pastors, advocates and other influencers, email and phone responses to a wide range of inquiries, an expansive website, monthly training webinars, and much more. All of these efforts work towards three primary goals: 1) To see more than enough well-supported homes for every child in US foster care, including foster and kinship, adoptive, and restored biological families; and 2) To see Christians and Christian organizations known across the field of OVC care not only for great love, but also for excellence and innovation; 3) To see the local church in every nation rise as the primary answer for the orphans and vulnerable children of that place.

  Expenses $830,135 · Grants $36,000 · Revenue $32,270

• Summit Conference - The annual CAFO Summit has become the hub for the field of Christian service to orphans and vulnerable children worldwide, from US foster care to programs serving children and families worldwide.At the CAFO 2024 Summit, more than 2,000 church leaders, orphan advocates, adoptive and foster parents, veterans of global ministry, and local/national leaders from around the world gathered for training, connection, and inspiration for well-informed, highly-effective ministry.

  Expenses $70,204 · Revenue $87,325

• Global Networks - CAFO Global Networks and the Global Movements Initiative (GMI) invests in emerging leaders worldwide, providing technical support, leadership, training, and more. GMI draws from the resources of the entire CAFO community to serve the church in majority world/developing countries, working toward the day when the local church in every nation is known as the primary answer for the deep needs of orphans and vulnerable children in their midst.

  Expenses $78,587 · Grants $19,000 · Revenue $11,352

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

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

• 2024

  Revenue

  $428,341

  Expenses

  $1,172,320

  Contributions

  $233,534

  Grants paid

  $55,000

• 2023

  Revenue

  $4,365,831

  Expenses

  $3,923,072

  Contributions

  $3,068,326

  Grants paid

  $214,642

• 2022

  Revenue

  $3,549,604

  Expenses

  $3,291,246

  Contributions

  $2,449,404

  Grants paid

  $193,377

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

• 2021 · 990

  Revenue

  $4,343,152

  Expenses

  $2,515,744

  Assets (EOY)

  $4,229,337

• 2020 · 990

  Revenue

  $2,446,395

  Expenses

  $2,016,753

  Assets (EOY)

  $2,475,174

• 2019 · 990

  Revenue

  $2,244,196

  Expenses

  $2,003,503

  Assets (EOY)

  $1,727,484

• 2018 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,947,548

  Expenses

  $1,702,118

  Assets (EOY)

  $1,546,953

• 2017 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,861,556

  Expenses

  $1,484,529

  Assets (EOY)

  $1,336,097

• 2016 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,417,203

  Expenses

  $1,264,101

  Assets (EOY)

  $878,865

• 2015 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,375,881

  Expenses

  $1,175,684

  Assets (EOY)

  $610,827

• 2014 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,150,923

  Expenses

  $1,163,042

  Assets (EOY)

  $394,600

• 2013 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,023,345

  Expenses

  $853,735

  Assets (EOY)

  $337,134

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.

Grants made

• Tides Center for Faith to Action

  $120,000

  2022 · Orphan Care, Advocacy and Public Policy

• Tides Center for Faith to Action

  $95,600

  2023 · Orphan Care, Advocacy and Public Policy

• HOPE 1312 Collective Inc

  $20,000

  2024 · Strengthening Orphan and Foster Care Collaboration

• Boston College Sponsored Programs

  $10,000

  2022 · Research Affiliates Grant

• The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania

  $10,000

  2022 · Research Affiliates Grant

• The Clapham Group

  $7,500

  2023 · Orphan Care, Advocacy and Public Policy

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

• NATIONAL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION

  $798,230

  2023 · GROWTH

• NATIONAL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION

  $770,075

  2022 · GROWTH

• NATIONAL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION

  $472,700

  2024 · ORPHAN CARE

• DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING

  $266,950

  2024 · HUMAN SERVICES

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $255,900

  2023 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING

  $241,350

  2023 · HUMAN SERVICES

• DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING

  $159,350

  2022 · HUMAN SERVICES

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $106,000

  2024 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTH TEXAS

  $102,000

  2022 · FOR THE MORE THAN ENOUGH-BETTER TOGETHER FUND

• CREDIT UNIONS IN THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA

  $89,750

  2023 · PROGRAM SUPPORT

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