Distributions Outpacing Contributions
Foundations and donor-advised funds (DAFs) are witnessing a natural self-correction from the last few years of elevated stock market gains and unprecedented donations.
The Duke Endowment, a North Carolina-based private foundation with $5.9 billion in assets that often awards grants to rural United Methodist churches, remains tight-lipped on its stance regarding the denomination’s ongoing schism.
A new child safety accreditation program will launch in January for Christian ministries serving children, created and managed by the Evangelical Council for Abuse Prevention (ECAP).
How much does it cost to send a missionary overseas? How much revenue do mission-oriented nonprofits raise to this end? These are the questions MinistryWatch sought to answer when we asked more than 60 of ...
One of the many factors distinguishing much missions-related work from the average job – even the average ministry job -- is the expectation of fundraising your own salary. The support-raising model raises questions about reciprocity ...
News headlines are routinely flooded with stories of child abuse in churches and ministries, as MinistryWatch covers on a regular basis. A year ago, we reported on a new accreditation program offering safety standards to ...
MinistryWatch’s annual roundup of the 50 Largest Media Ministries in the U.S. is usually a fairly static list, but not this year: One of the biggest movers in the mix is Amazing Facts, ranking 16th ...
The Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church, a small denomination of about 264 churches, narrowly averted a crisis last year when it raided every fund it could find to cover an $8.5 million shortfall in its retirement ...
Earlier this month, the Chronicle of Philanthropy published an exhaustive report detailing the emerging “nonprofit hiring crisis,” a dynamic heavy on staffing shortages and a fierce competition for salaries. Nonprofits are facing many of the ...
The U.S. Internal Revenue Service recently released its 2021 Data Book, an 80-page trove of statistics profiling the country’s tax base. Of the 2 million organizations the IRS recognized as tax-exempt last year, 1.4 million ...
