Incorporated in 1941, InterVarsity Christian Fellowship/USA is an evangelical campus mission serving more than 40,000 students and faculty on more than 687 college and university campuses nationwide. The purpose of InterVarsity Christian Fellowship/USA is to establish and advance at colleges and universities witnessing communities of students and faculty who follow Jesus as Savior and Lord: growing in love for God, God's Word, God's people of every ethnicity and culture and God's purposes in the world. InterVarsity serves God and partners with his people to extend his kingdom cross-culturally on campuses and around the world. As an extension of InterVarsity Christian Fellowship/USA, InterVarsity Press publishes Christian books and Bible studies.
Incorporated in 1941, InterVarsity Christian Fellowship/USA is an evangelical campus mission serving more than 40,000 students and faculty on more than 687 college and university campuses nationwide. The purpose of InterVarsity Christian Fellowship/USA is to establish and advance at colleges and universities witnessing communities of students and faculty who follow Jesus as Savior and Lord: growing in love for God, God's Word, God's people of every ethnicity and culture and God's purposes in the world. InterVarsity serves God and partners with his people to extend his kingdom cross-culturally on campuses and around the world. As an extension of InterVarsity Christian Fellowship/USA, InterVarsity Press publishes Christian books and Bible studies.
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What is your organization aiming to accomplish?
The goals in our most recent 5-year plan (2012-2017) include: Add 6,675 core students and faculty and plant 150 new chapters. Our over-arching goal is to reach the 20 million college students with the Gospel. Therefore, we seek to reach out to more students and faculty on more campuses with the Gospel, inviting them to become followers of Jesus and people who can help make God's kingdom come.
What are your strategies for making this happen?
InterVarsity establishes and advances witnessing communities on college and university campuses that follow Jesus as Savior and Lord: contributing towards growth in love for God, God's Word, God's people of every ethnicity and culture, and God's purposes in the world.
What are your organization's capabilities for doing this?
InterVarsity is working to reach into every corner of every campus with 1,025 chapters on 695 campuses (at the end of our 2017-2018 fiscal year). InterVarsity chapters minister to students and faculty through small group Bible studies, large group gatherings, leadership training, thoughtful discipleship, and life-changing mission trips.
How will your organization know if you are making progress?
Our staff on 695 campuses submit information to an Annual Field Report (AFR), which allows InterVarsity's national leadership and board of trustees to measure the progress of each year against the record of previous years.
What have and haven't you accomplished so far?
Chapter planting and evangelism have been deeply embedded into the fabric of InterVarsity's ministry. This past year, 4,199 women and men decided to follow Jesus. This is up 27% from five years ago, and 93% higher than 10 years ago. The number of campuses with at least one InterVarsity ministry has increased by 19% over the past 5 years - up to 695 now. A recent survey showed 87% of InterVarsity students and alumni read the Bible at least weekly, compared to 25% of non-InterVarsity Millennials. We will continue to seek even more growth in the years ahead. We are currently working on a new plan called our 2030 Calling which calls for ministry to be established on all 2,500 U. S. campuses by the year 2030.
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This impact information is current as of January 2019, when it was provided to us by GuideStar.
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Program names and associated costs are listed for the top programs as reported on the charity's most recently filed Form 990. The top programs displayed will include the largest three programs, or those programs covering at least 60% of the charity's total expenses, whichever comes first.
Program Name
Amount Spent
% of Program Expenses
Collegiate/Campus Ministry Program
$66,749,588
82.5%
Conference
$7,776,670
9.6%
Christian Religious Media Program
$6,394,248
7.9%
Ratings History InterVarsity Christian Fellowship/USA has received 8 consecutive 4-star ratings from Charity Navigator.
Organization that normally receives no more than one-third of its support from gross investment income and unrelated business income and at the same time more than one-third of its support from contributions, fees, and gross receipts related to exempt purposes. 509(a)(2)
