Focus on the Family Archives - MinistryWatch
The 50 largest ministries are led by CBN, Educational Media Foundation, and Focus on the Family.
CBN, Educational Media Foundation, and Focus on the Family once again top the list of the largest media ministries by total annual revenue. One of them doesn’t file a Form 990.
President Jim Daly eyes 12- to 18-month transition timeline, citing need for next-gen leadership.
After two decades at the helm, Jim Daly is preparing to hand off leadership at Focus on the Family. The ministry has partnered with FaithSearch Partners to find a "next-gen" leader who can speak to ...
And other notable ministry happenings from this week.
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World Vision remains atop the list while three new ministries join the top 10.
A list of the 50 largest Christian ministries curated from the MinistryWatch 1000 database as of October 29, 2025.
Jen Hatmaker deconstructs, the songs of Nashville, Truth Rising, and notable deaths
“Signs and Wonders” is a column that shares thoughts on news items that either don’t quite rise to the level of a news story for MinistryWatch, or are slightly (perhaps even significantly) outside our normal ...
A child psychologist by training, Dobson crossed over from academia to pro-family activism with his 1977 founding of Focus on the Family.
(RNS) — James C. Dobson, a psychologist, political activist, and author who championed Christian pro-family values on his popular radio shows and in his bestselling books, died Thursday (Aug. 21). He was 89. “Dr. Dobson ...
Total revenue for these ministries exceeds $1.9 billion.
A list of the largest media ministries in the U.S. based on the current data in the MinistryWatch 1000 database as of July 28, 2025.
Ministry targeted for biblical views of sex and marriage
Focus on the Family has joined a long list of conservative Christian ministries to receive a “hate group” designation by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC).
His behavior has revealed deficiencies in leadership among North American Anglicans
--If you are a conservative, Bible-believing Christian, there’s a lot to like about the Rev. Calvin Robinson. Raised in England, he stood up to the liberalism of the Church of England and, as a result, ...
More ministries call themselves a ‘church’ or ‘association of churches’ to avoid disclosure requirements
Since 2020, more than 80 of the 1,000 largest Christian ministries in the US have asked the Internal Revenue Service to classify them as an “association of churches.”
