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NATIONAL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC

EIN 46-4299583 KNOXVILLE, TN

Revenue 2024
$12,419,465
Expenses 2024
$216,352

Program services were 100.0% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
T31
Classification
1000
Street
8707 JOE DANIELS RD

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Group exemption

A subordinate covered by the group exemption of NATIONAL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION (EIN 58-1493949). matched by us

The IRS lists each organization's group exemption number; we match a subordinate to its central organization by that number and the affiliation code the IRS assigns.

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

THE REFUGE FOUNDATION IS A GRANT MAKING ORGANIZATION THAT SUPPORTS NON-DENOMINATIONAL CHRISTIAN RETREAT CENTERS COMMITTED TO THE PRACTICE OF SILENCE, SOLITUDE AND SIMPLICITY IN A NATURAL SETTING OF GOD'S CREATION WHERE THE PARTICIPANT COMMITS THEMSELVES TO PRACTICE THESE SPIRITUAL DISCIPLES DURING THEIR STAY, IN ORDER TO EXPERIENCE THE PRESENCE OF CHRIST, HEAR HIS VOICE AND REALIGN AND RE-ENERGIZE THEIR PERSPECTIVES TO HIS WILL FOR THEIR LIVES.

Activities or mission (Part I)

THE REFUGE FOUNDATION IS A GRANT MAKING ORGANIZATION THAT SUPPORTS NON-DENOMINATIONAL CHRISTIAN RETREAT CENTERS COMMITTED TO THE PRACTICE OF SILENCE, SOLITUDE AND SIMPLICITY IN A NATURAL SETTING OF GOD'S CREATION WHERE THE PARTICIPATE COMMITS THEMSELVES TO PRACTICE THESE SPIRITUAL DISCIPLES DURING THEIR STAY, IN ORDER TO EXPERIENCE THE PRESENCE OF CHRIST, HEAR HIS VOICE AND REALIGN AND RE-ENERGIZE THEIR PERSPECTIVES TO HIS WILL FOR THEIR LIVES.

  • SUPPORTS NATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION BY MAKING GRANTS THAT SUPPORTS NON-DENOMINATIONAL CHRISTIAN RETREAT CENTERS COMMITTED TO THE PRACTICE OF SILENCE, SOLITUDE AND SIMPLICITY IN A NATURAL SETTING OF GOD'S CREATION WHERE THE PARTICIPANT COMMITS THEMSELVES TO PRACTICE THESE SPIRITUAL DISCIPLES DURING THEIR STAY, IN ORDER TO EXPERIENCE THE PRESENCE OF CHRIST, HEAR HIS VOICE AND REALIGN AND RE-ENERGIZE THEIR PERSPECTIVES TO HIS WILL FOR THEIR LIVES.

    Expenses $169,382 · Grants $159,000

  • VIEWPOINT AT PALMER IS A PROPERTY CURRENTLY BEING USED FOR HOUSING CHRISTIAN MISSIONARIES AS THEY COME BACK TO THE UNITED STATES, GIVING THEM TIME TO REST, RECOVER, AND PREPARE TO GO BACK INTO THE MISSION FIELD.

    Expenses $44,491

  • JUDSON MISSION VIEW IS A PROPERTY THAT IS CURRENTLY BEING DEVELOPED. ONCE DEVELOPED, JUDSON MISSION VIEW WILL BE USED FOR RETREATS THAT ARE COMMITTED TO THE PRACTICE OF SILENCE, SOLITUDE AND SIMPLICITY IN A NATURAL SETTING OF GOD'S CREATION WHERE THE PARTICIPANT COMMITS THEMSELVES TO PRACTICE THESE SPIRITUAL DISCIPLES DURING THEIR STAY, IN ORDER TO EXPERIENCE THE PRESENCE OF CHRIST, HEAR HIS VOICE AND REALIGN AND RE-ENERGIZE THEIR PERSPECTIVES TO HIS WILL FOR THEIR LIVES.

    Expenses $2,479

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.

  • SIDNEY G BRIAN

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • BILLIE W BRIAN

    DIRECTOR & VICE-PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MARYE E LORD

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $164,964
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $146,232
    Other
    $18,732
    Hours/week
    1 + 40 related

  • APRIL SHAFFER

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $155,994
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $125,571
    Other
    $30,423
    Hours/week
    1 + 40 related

  • KRISTEN M LEWIS

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $217,679
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $196,271
    Other
    $21,408
    Hours/week
    1 + 40 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $0 + $196,271 related
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0
    Filer's total
    $0 + $196,271 related

  • KELLY SHEPARD

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $111,954
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $85,197
    Other
    $26,757
    Hours/week
    1 + 40 related

  • HENRY J MILLS II

    SECRETARY & TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $12,419,465
    Expenses
    $216,352
    Contributions
    $12,418,632
    Grants paid
    $159,000
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $64,981
    Expenses
    $142,178
    Contributions
    $64,108
    Grants paid
    $119,000
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $94,157
    Expenses
    $194,762
    Contributions
    $93,600
    Grants paid
    $158,625

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
    $161,567
    Expenses
    $273,345
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,169,561

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $14,618
    Expenses
    $52,920
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,291,631

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $780
    Expenses
    $71,551
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,325,311

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,315,269
    Expenses
    $59,629
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,392,388

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $70,000
    Expenses
    $35,279
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,123,339

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $810,000
    Expenses
    $42,135
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,088,618

  • 2015 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $10,000
    Expenses
    $23,053
    Assets (EOY)
    $320,753

  • 2014 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $10,819
    Expenses
    $24,274
    Assets (EOY)
    $335,806

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $350,000
    Expenses
    $2,739
    Assets (EOY)
    $399,406

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

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

No itemized grant names this organization as a recipient. Only grants over $5,000 are itemized, and only by filers of the full Form 990.

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

Declared on its 2024 return

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Not present in the most recent drop.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 26 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.