BBB Wise Giving Report for
Campus Crusade for Christ

BBB Wise Giving Report issued January 2009
BBB Wise Giving Report expires January 2011


Does not meet one or more standards
This charity does not meet one or more of the 20 standards for Charity Accountability. Find out more...


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Charity Contact Information

Name: Campus Crusade for Christ
Address: 100 Lake Hart Drive
  Orlando, FL 32832
Phone: 407-826-2000
Web Address: www.ccci.org
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BBB Wise Giving Alliance Comments

Year, State Incorporated: 1954, California
Affiliates: 1500 chapters

Stated Purpose: "to preach the gospel of Christ, helping Christian believers to grow in their faith, and teaching them to be effective as missionaries to share their faith and to help Christian believers in their sphere of influence to grow in their faith".

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Evaluation Conclusions

               

Campus Crusade for Christ (CCCI) does not meet the followingStandard for Charity Accountability.

Standard 4: Compensated Board Members - Not more than one or 10% (whichever is greater) directly or indirectly compensated person(s) serving as voting member(s) of the board. Compensated members shall not serve as the board's chair or treasurer.

  • CCCI does not meet this Standard because 2 members out of the 10 member board of directors (20%) are compensated directly (i.e. the Chairman of the board who is also the CEO and the Co-Founder of CCCI).

In response, CCCI has stated that:          

 

         ''Campus Crusade for Christ agrees with the spirit of Standard 4.  At the same time, Campus Crusade is a religious organization and its missionary members are called, take vows and are commissioned members of its religious order.  The ministry believes that it is equally important, therefore, for there to be appropriate representation by its missionary members on its Board of Directors.  The Campus Crusade Board is normally composed of between ten and twelve members.  Two of the Directors are missionary members of the organization, the President and the ministry’s co-founder.  The President is the highest spiritual official of the organization.  For that reason, he, also, serves as the Chairman of the Board.  In keeping with the spirit and purpose of good corporate governance the rest of the Board members are outside Directors, who do not receive any compensation from the organization.  The Treasurer is an outside Director.  The Board maintains an Audit Committee composed entirely of outside Directors.  The Audit Committee retains the outside financial audit firm, currently Ernst & Young, and oversees the annual outside audit.  The Board, also, maintains a Finance Committee, composed only of outside Directors.  The chairmen of the Audit Committee and Finance Committee do not serve on the other’s committee.  The Treasurer is not a member of either Committee.''
Campus Crusade for Christ (CCCI) meets the remaining 19Standards for Charity Accountability.
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Programs

               

CCCI is involved in evangelism and discipleship which it conducts through different ministry techniques. These approaches include working with college students on college and university campuses, working with high school students, working with adults in their careers (including people in various business environments, the military, the United Nations, the government), providing assistance to churches in low income communities, working with athletes (both professional and student), providing relief services for people in poverty or who are victims of disaster, offering programs to assist couples with their marriages and parenthood, and operating academic institutions both for undergraduate students, and theological training at the graduate level. CCCI has 3 ministries in the United States (the campus, community, and coverage ministry) and 1 international ministry. CCCI’s ministries help the organization to facilitate its goal of changing lives through Jesus Christ. By using innovative tools like JESUS, a film based on the Gospel of Luke, and The Four Spiritual Laws, a booklet explaining how to have a personal relationship with God, CCCI and its partners have exposed people around the world to the gospel of Jesus Christ. Some ($205,581,000 or 47%) of CCCI's program activities are carried out in conjunction with fund raising appeals

For the fiscal year ended August 31, 2007, CCCI's program expenses were:

  
International ministries 137,739,000
Campus 116,194,000
Community 94,280,000
Coverage 85,028,000
Total Program Expenses: $433,241,000
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Governance

               

Chief Executive : Stephen B. Douglass, President
Compensation*:
 $89,226

Highest Paid Executive: David O. Smith, Director of Missionary Outreach
Compensation*: $165,718

Chair of the Board: Stephen B. Douglass
Chair's Profession / Business Affiliation: President of Campus Crusade for Christ

Board Size: 10

Paid Staff Size: 6890

*2007 compensation includes annual salary and, if applicable, benefit plans, expense accounts, and other allowances.
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Fund Raising

               

Method(s) Used:

Direct mail, telemarketing, special events, print advertisements, radio, grant proposals, Internet appeals, planned giving, and cause-related marketing
Fund raising costs were 7% of related contributions. (Related contributions, which totaled $484,633,000, are donations received as a result of fund raising activities.)
CCCI incurred joint costs of $231,303,000 for informational materials and activities that included fund raising materials. Of those costs $205,581,000 was allocated to program expenses, $18,360,000 was allocated to fund raising expenses, and $7,362,000 was allocated to administrative expenses.
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Tax Status

               

This organization is tax-exempt under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. It is eligible to receive contributions deductible as charitable donations for federal income tax purposes.
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Financial

               

The following is based on CCCI's audited financial statements (consolidated with subsidiaries) for the fiscal year ended August 31, 2007:

Source of Funds  
Contributions 469,553,000
Other income 18,181,000
Conference registrations 15,080,000
Literature and material sales 11,635,000
Total Income $514,449,000


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Uses of Funds as a % of Total Expenses

Programs: 87%  Fund Raising: 6%  Administrative: 7% 

Total income   $514,449,000
  Program expenses $433,241,000
  Fund raising expenses 32,238,000
  Administrative expenses 33,417,000
 
Total expenses   $498,896,000
Income in Excess of Expenses   15,553,000
Beginning net assets   83,612,000
Other Changes in Net Assets 9,015,000
Ending net assets   108,180,000
Total liabilities   113,581,000
Total assets   $221,761,000

Note: In the above financial summary, the "other changes in net assets" amount $9,015,000 represents pension related changes other than net periodic pension cost and a change in the fair value of a derivative.

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