Christian Counseling & Educational Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 231996251
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-T 2023
- Location
- Glenside, PA, United States
- Phone
- (215) 690-9164
- Rating
- 79
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Family Counseling
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $2,306,334
- Expenses
- $2,535,655
- Assets
- $3,251,718
- Liabilities
- $892,165
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
14 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Jonathan Holmes (Executive Director)
People named in this filing
- Barbara Aills (Trustee)
- Thomas Cunningham (Trustee)
- Dr Deepak Reju (Trustee)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
CCEF works to restore Christ to counseling and counseling to the church. Because God teaches us to see the world the way he sees it, and to see all things as they exist in relationship to him, we are committed to the complete trustworthiness and primacy of the Scriptures. Because the working of God in human life unfolds historically, we are committed to the narrative perspective provided by redemptive-historical theology, the story line that frames our understanding of systematic theology, practical theology, and church history. Because God’s saving work in Christ Jesus creates a people for his own possession, we are committed to serve the visible church.
What it reported doing in 2025
Counseling and Educational Services: The Christian Counseling & Educational Foundation (the Ministry) is committed to restoring Christ to counseling and counseling to the church. The Ministry believes that God sees, cares, and speaks into all of life, and the church is the place for biblical counseling. Because of this truth, the Ministry seeks to connect the treasures of Scripture to the troubles of life and equip God's people to walk with one another in wise, hopeful, biblical care. They seek to accomplish this mission through the online School of Biblical Counseling, the annual CCEF National Conference, speaking events, counseling, and various resources, including blogs, podcasts, videos, books, and more. To learn more or explore the Ministry's resources, visit ccef.org.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 68% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. The filing does not identify recipients for some grant dollars and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 79
- Transparency & Controls: 69
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 31
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 90.8%; rating input score 91
- Program expense ratio: 81.9%; rating input score 82
- Fundraising efficiency: $3.56 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Scored; rating input score 0
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -9.9%; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.28; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.27; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 90; 90th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 3.5% per year; rating input score 100; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 3.4% per year; rating input score 100; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 5.4% per year; rating input score 100; 35th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 2 programs and campaigns described on the official site
- Where the money goes: 90.8% of revenue deployed · 81.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 12 of 12 board members independent · 7 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $2.1M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 14 people listed
- Consistency: 31 of 31 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2011 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 0/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 9/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 10/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 42/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 28/100.