Christian Aid Ministries Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 453969752
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2012–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-T 2025
- Location
- Berlin, OH, USA
- Phone
- 330-893-4915
- Rating
- 85
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Standard
- Sector
- Support N.E.C.
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $13,353,452
- Expenses
- $9,100,602
- Assets
- $29,884,859
- Liabilities
- $4,178,431
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
16 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- David N Troyer (President)
- Philip Troyer (Vice President)
Highest reported compensation
- David N Troyer (President): $149,745 total reported compensation
- Philip Troyer (Vice President): $129,386 total reported compensation
- Weston Showalter (Executive Committee Member): $114,143 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
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What it reported doing in 2025
Christian Aid Ministries Foundation makes grants and allocations to exempt organizations including churches and other publicly supported organizations. During the year, CAMF made grants to numerous organizations, totaling $8,317,924.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 82% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 100% of its reported program spending out as grants.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and some filed totals do not add up.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 75
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 91
- Sustainability: 78
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 63.4%; rating input score 63
- Program expense ratio: 91.5%; rating input score 91
- Fundraising efficiency: $111.13 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 85; 85th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 87.5%; rating input score 88; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 97.4%; rating input score 97; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 78
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 31.8%; rating input score 85; 85th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.28; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.14; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0.8%; rating input score 88; 88th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 17.2% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 13% per year; rating input score 100; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 14.4% per year; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 63.4% of revenue deployed · 91.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 8 of 8 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $8.3M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $150K · 16 people listed
- Consistency: 31 of 33 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2012 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 85 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 69 filed related-organization links
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 9 not reported.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Schedule R controlled transactions itemized did not reconcile in the filed values.