Making a Charitable Donation

Compassion International is a Christian child advocacy organization dedicated to releasing poor children from spiritual, economic, social and physical poverty. To learn how your charitable donation can make a difference, please follow these links:

• Ways to sponsor a child
• Learn more about sponsoring a child
• Child sponsorship photo tours
• Financial information
• Christian child sponsorship
• Learn more about Compassion's charitable nonprofit organization
• Make a one-time charitable donation

Choose How Your Charitable Donation Is Used

As a charitable nonprofit organization, Compassion International has helped more than 1 million children over 50 years. Today this Christian child ministry helps more than 728,000 children in over 20 developing countries throughout the world.

Compassion is committed to changing the world one child at a time. We invite you to discover how a charitable donation to Compassion’s programs can help change the future of one special child in need.

Child Survival Program

Infant mortality is extremely high in some parts of the world, but with your charitable donation to our Child Survival Program, you can help provide vulnerable infants and young children with the critical medical and nutritional assistance they need to survive their most fragile years of life. The Child Survival Program instructs mothers and primary care givers before and after birth in the following areas:

• Growth Monitoring
• Oral Rehydration Therapy (ORT)
• Breastfeeding
• Immunization
• Female Literacy

A charitable donation to this program will help improve the lives of infants and their mothers and give them hope for a better future.

Child Sponsorship Program

Compassion's Child Sponsorship Program makes a difference in the lives of children in need. When you make a charitable donation to this program, you will give a child hope for the future and all eternity. Our Child Sponsorship Program prepares children for adulthood through a lifetime of learning. Your charitable donation will help impoverished children to:

• Follow Jesus Christ in faith and deed as part of their spiritual training
• Support themselves and share with others in need as part of their economic training
• Be responsible members of their family, church, community and nation as part of their social training
• Maintain their own physical well-being

Leadership Development Program

You can also choose to have your charitable donation support our Leadership Development Program. Imagine helping a child rise above the anguish of poverty to become a college-educated leader. Through the Leadership Development Program, your charitable donation will give a young adult the opportunity to develop the skills and abilities necessary to become a well-rounded Christian leader.

Leadership Development Program candidates must demonstrate strong Christian character, be active in school and be recommended by respected leaders in their school and churches. Your charitable donation will help shape the values of future influential Christian leaders.

Other Charitable Donation Options

Your charitable donation can be used a variety of other ways to support Compassion’s ministry, including our Unsponsored Children’s Fund. This fund unlocks the benefits of Compassion’s program for the thousands of children waiting --and hoping --for a generous sponsor. No matter which cause you make your charitable donation to, you can take pleasure in knowing your generosity will improve the lives of children in need. Share the love of Jesus Christ today by making a charitable donation to one of Compassion’s many critical programs.

Financial Accountability and Integrity

Compassion International has been recognized by several publications and financial accountability groups for superior financial integrity, including The American Institute of Philanthropy and Forbes’ “Giving Smartly” Charities Listing. Compassion ensures that at least 80 percent of all expenditures directly support the numerous programs that assist poor children.

Whether you are sponsoring children or making a charitable donation, you can see exactly where your money goes through Compassion’s annual reports. We conduct annual audits to show both program and supporting expenses and we have also developed audits to measure the effectiveness of our programs in the lives of children.

Charity Navigator, America’s largest independent charity evaluator, awarded our charitable nonprofit organization with their highest rating possible: four out of four stars. Compassion has proven that it manages and grows its finances in the most fiscally responsible way possible and when you make a charitable donation with Compassion, you are donating to an honest, financially healthy, Christian child ministry. 

Charitable Donation Resources

At Compassion, we champion the biblical mandate Christians have to help the poor — specifically children. God has blessed Christians around the world with the gifts, talents and resources necessary to help poor children. Whether you are a volunteer for your church’s child ministry, making a charitable donation, or sponsoring a child, your talents and resources can be used to create a better life for children in need.

Half the world’s population – more than 3 billion people – lives on less than $2 a day. That is why your charitable donation is so important to help release children from poverty in Jesus’ name. Children are the innocent victims of such extreme poverty. But you can help today! Please give a charitable donation to Compassion’s charitable nonprofit organization today and make a difference in the life of a child in need.