Intervarsity Christian Fellowship
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| Founded | 1941 |
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| Type | Non-profit 501(c)3 organization |
| Focus | U.S. college and university campuses |
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Area served
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1011 chapters on 667 campuses in USA; and international partnerships |
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Members
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40,219 (2014–15) |
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Key people
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Tom Lin, president |
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Revenue
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$102M (2014–15) |
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Employees
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1,623 (2013–14) |
| Mission | Evangelistic Christian campus community |
| Website | www |
InterVarsity Christian Fellowship/USA is an inter-denominational, evangelical Christian campus ministry founded in 1941, working with students and faculty on U.S. college and university campuses. In the 2015-2016 school year, 1,730 campus staff members served 40,985 students and faculty in 1,011 chapters on 667 campuses in the United States. InterVarsity is a charter member of the International Fellowship of Evangelical Students, a network of similar campus ministries around the world.
InterVarsity is governed by a Board of Directors. Tom Lin became the eighth president of InterVarsity on August 10, 2016. The president works with a nine-member cabinet. InterVarsity is a tax exempt organization under the provisions of Section 501(C)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. In the fiscal year ending 30 June 2015, InterVarsity had $102M in revenue (with over 70% coming from charitable donations) and $95.8M in expenditures.
InterVarsity is a charter member in the Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability (ECFA), and uses more than 85% of its revenue for staffworker salaries and other on-campus work. InterVarsity has been rated 4 stars (out of 4) by Charity Navigator for six straight years. Michael Thatcher, the president of Charity Navigator, reported: "Only 4 percent of the charities we evaluate have received at least six consecutive 4-star evaluations, indicating that InterVarsity Christian Fellowship/USA outperforms most other charities in America."
InterVarsity strives to maintain the highest level of accountability with its ministry partners and is also rated by sites such as Guidestar and MinistryWatch. InterVarsity (as of 2015) fell short of the Better Business Bureau's "Standards for Charity Accountability".
InterVarsity Christian Fellowship/USA became an official organization in November, 1941. But it traces its roots to a movement of British university students, starting at Cambridge University in 1877. The movement spread to Canada before reaching the U.S. In 1938 Stacey Woods, the Canadian Inter-Varsity director, met with students on the University of Michigan campus. As an immediate result of that visit, students formed the first InterVarsity chapter in the United States. InterVarsity's first three staff members came on loan from Canada, and Stacey Woods served as the organization's General Secretary (CEO). In 1947 InterVarsity USA became one of ten founding members of the International Fellowship of Evangelical Students, a federation of national Christian student movements. By 1950 there were 35 staff workers serving students in 499 InterVarsity chapters and by the early seventies, the on-campus staff had grown to more than 200.
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