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Christians Engaged

EIN 84-2478845 Colorado Springs, CO

Revenue 2024
$1,961,836
Expenses 2024
$2,195,335

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

As filed

Subsection
03
Street
8675 Explorer Dr 112

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).

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.

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.

  • 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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $1,961,836
    Expenses
    $2,195,335
    Contributions
    $1,908,811
    Grants paid
    $718,613
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $936,802
    Expenses
    $860,071
    Contributions
    $838,066
    Grants paid
    $14,800
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $692,121
    Expenses
    $620,499
    Contributions
    $634,827
    Grants paid
    $8,350

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
    $308,141
    Expenses
    $246,223
    Assets (EOY)
    $77,334

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $309,331
    Expenses
    $247,413
    Assets (EOY)
    $77,334

  • 2020 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $141,824
    Expenses
    $128,237
    Assets (EOY)
    $15,416

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

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Grants received

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

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

Declared as related by

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.