Head of Organization
|
Loan
Recipient
Organization
|
Amount
of Loan
|
Jobs
Retained
|
Files a Form 990
|
TV Ministry
|
Notes About
Organization
|
| Che Ahn |
Harvest Rock Church |
$311,241 |
34 |
No
|
Yes
|
Che Ahn's TV program airs on God TV.
|
Ernest
Angley
|
Grace
Cathedral
|
$375,890
|
83
|
No
|
Yes
|
Televangelist
Ernest Angley was sued for sexual abuse and settled a lawsuit
out of court, according to The
Columbus Dispatch.
|
Sonny
Arguinzoni
|
Victory
Outreach
International
|
$465,072
|
42
|
No
|
No
|
Sonny
Arguinzoni's outreach to gangs and drug addicts has been criticized for
manipulative practices.
|
| Jim Bakker |
Morningside Church Productions Inc. |
$444,400 |
39 |
No |
Yes
|
Televangelist Jim Bakker is currently embroiled in
litigation
after his TV program promoted silver solution as a cure for coronavirus. |
| Jim Bakker |
Morningside Church Retreat Inc. |
$198,700 |
18 |
No |
No |
|
| Jim Bakker |
Morningside Church Management |
$194,200 |
21 |
No |
Maybe |
|
| Mark Barclay |
Living Word International |
$317,440 |
38 |
No |
Yes
|
Living Word International also operates under the trade
name Mark Barclay Ministries. The church owns a Hawker 800XP jet. Mark
Barclay's TV program airs on VTN.
|
| Jonathan Bernis |
Jewish Voice |
$894,610 |
73 |
Yes |
Yes |
Produces the TV program Jewish Voice with Jonathan Bernis. |
| John and Lisa Bevere |
Messenger International |
$542,859 |
37 |
No |
No
|
Messenger International may have stopped filing the
Form 990 after 2017. Basic
financial information is available because of their
membership in ECFA. |
| Rick Bezet |
New Life Church of Arkansas |
$2,288,200 |
498 |
No |
No
|
Multisite church has sixteen campuses. |
| Mike Bickle |
International House of Prayer |
$2,514,300 |
473 |
No |
Maybe
|
Creating confusion, two different organizations founded
by
Bickle operate as International House of Prayer. This IHOP operates as
a religious order, as explained in a Christian
Sentinel article. IHOP stopped filing a Form 990
after 2015. |
| Mike Bickle |
International House of Prayer -- Forerunner
Christian Fellowship |
$215,900 |
61 |
No |
Yes
|
Creating confusion, two different organizations founded
by Bickle
operate as International House of Prayer. This IHOP operates as a
church and is a member of ECFA which publishes basic
financial information. IHOP operates a 24 hour per day
streaming channel of their services. |
| Brady
Boyd |
New Life Church (Colorado Springs) |
$1,783,255 |
163 |
No |
No
|
Megachurch once pastored by Ted Haggard.
|
| Claud Bowers |
Associated Christian Television System Inc |
$168,200 |
18 |
Yes |
Yes |
Operates TV station WACX in Orlando, Florida. |
| Greg Bradshaw |
Harvest Bible Chapel |
$2,556,200 |
289 |
No |
No
|
Megachurch previously pastored by James MacDonald. |
| Joseph Branham |
Voice of God Recordings |
$1,162,500 |
107 |
Yes |
No |
Distributes sermons by William Branham.
Brannon, who died in 1965, actually helped launch the career
of
cult leader and mass murderer Jim Jones. |
| Tony and Cynthia Brazelton |
Victory Christian Ministries International |
$319,852 |
27 |
No |
Yes
|
Church owns a Sabreliner jet. TV program airs on The
Word Network.
|
Jamal
Bryant
|
New
Birth
Missionary Baptist Church
|
$462,165
|
42
|
No
|
Yes
|
After
pastor and televangelist Eddie Long died, Jamal Bryant was selected to
be the church's new pastor. Television program airs on Sundays on The
Word Network.
|
| Happy Caldwell |
Victory Television Network |
$219,100 |
21 |
Yes |
Yes
|
At the end of 2018 Victory Television Network
had $14
million in total assets which included a cash reserve of more than $1
million. |
Morris
Cerullo
|
Morris
Cerullo
World Evangelism
|
$923,700
|
89
|
No
|
Yes
|
In
December 2019, Cerullo's ministry opened a $190 million themed resort.
According to the San
Diego Union-Tribune, the project was built debt-free.
Morris Cerullo died July 10th, 2020.
|
| Neville Chankersingh |
Christian Television Corporation |
$1,064,900 |
115 |
Yes |
Yes |
Television network broadcasting from Florida. |
| Ryan Collins |
Bethel School of Technology |
$230,000 |
23 |
Yes |
No
|
Related to Bethel Redding. No employees reported on
latest Form 990. |
Matthew
Crouch
|
Trinity
Broadcasting of Texas
|
$3,308,005
|
336
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Trinity
Broadcasting of Texas is a smaller affiliate of Trinity
Christian Center of Santa Ana,
the original parent organization of TBN, with reportedly more than $1
billion in
assets in 2018 including $488 million of publicly traded
securities. Trinity
Broadcasting of Florida, also a subsidiary, owns a large private jet at
Matthew
Crouch's disposal—a Bombardier "Global Express", N3PC.
|
Jim
Cymbala
|
The
Brooklyn
Tabernacle
|
$1,466,105
|
149
|
No
|
No
|
The
Brooklyn Tabernacle features one of America's best known church choirs.
|
| Richard DeHaan Jr |
RBC Ministries |
$3,425,000 |
107 |
Yes |
No |
Better known by the trade Our Daily Bread Ministries. |
| Gregory Dickow |
Life Changers International Church |
$426,300 |
67 |
No |
Yes
|
Produces the TV program Power to Change Today. |
Dave
Dummitt
|
Willow
Creek
Community Church
|
$5,683,425
|
353
|
No
|
No
|
After
previous pastor Bill Hybels was removed because of sexual harassment
allegations, Dave
Dummitt was selected to be the new pastor.
|
| Dr. Tony Evans |
Oak Cliff Bible Fellowship |
$2,378,260 |
245 |
No |
Yes
|
Dr. Tony Evans's ministry Urban
Alternative produces his radio program. His TV program airs
on TBN.
|
| Sean Feucht |
Sean Feucht Ministries |
$20,800 |
1 |
Yes |
No |
Worship leader at Bethel Redding. |
| Jentezen Franklin |
Free Chapel Orange County |
$370,170 |
29 |
No |
Yes |
Satellite campus in Irvine, California. |
| Jentezen Franklin |
Free Chapel Worship Center |
$1,714,855 |
134 |
No |
Yes
|
Hosts the TV program Kingdom Connection with Jentezen
Franklin. His church is a member of ECFA which discloses basic
financial information. |
| Debra Fraser |
Total Living International |
$208,000 |
15 |
Yes |
Yes |
Operates the Total Living Network. |
Steven
Furtick
|
Elevation
Church
|
$3,656,700
|
377
|
No
|
Yes
|
MinistryWatch reported
that Elevation Church ended 2019 with a cash
surplus of $26 million. Furtick's TV program airs on TBN.
|
| Eric Geiger |
Mariners Church |
$2,700,000 |
-- |
No |
No
|
In 2018, Outreach
Magazine listed Mariners Church as the 21st largest church in
America, with an average attendance of 13,651. |
| Jack Graham |
Prestonwood Christian Academy |
$3,353,800 |
0 |
No |
No
|
School operated by Prestonwood Baptist Church. |
| WV Grant |
Eagles Nest Churches |
$39,200 |
4 |
No |
Yes |
After ABC Prime Time Live's Diane Sawyer and Trinity
Foundation investigated and discreditied WV Grant in the early 1990s,
the televangelist was convicted of tax evasion. |
| John Gray |
The Relentless Church |
$1,250,000 |
151 |
No |
Yes
|
The church purchased a $1.8 million home for
pastor John Gray who is currently in a legal battle with televangelist
Ron Carpenter whose church previously occupied the church property. |
| Craig Groeschel |
Life. Church Operations, LLC |
$7,007,000 |
451 |
No |
No
|
Life.
Church is well known for its Youversion Bible
app. (the period in the name is intentional) |
| J.D. Greear |
Summit Church |
$2,306,000 |
264 |
No |
No
|
Pastor Greear is currently serving as president of the
Southern Baptist Convention. |
| Kenneth Hagin |
Rhema Bible Church |
$1,487,115 |
212 |
No |
Yes
|
Rhema
Bible Church owns a Canadair/Bombardier
Challenger, N91KH. Their TV program Rhema Praise airs on Daystar.
|
| Mac
Hammond |
Living
Word
Christian Center |
$2,782,600 |
397
|
No
|
Yes
|
Several
weeks
before applying for the PPP loan, LWCC purchased
telelvangelist Jesse Duplantis' old Falcon
50 jet. Hammond's church also owns
another private jet, a Cessna 650, N178HL, which it obtained in the
fall of 2019. Hammond, a aviation enthusiast, also owns a jet
fighter trainer. |
Benny
Hinn
|
World
Healing
Center Church
|
$684,600
|
25
|
No
|
Yes
|
Benny
Hinn Ministries is a tradename registered to World Healing Center
Church. Hinn's TV audience significantly shrank after
his TV
program was
removed from TBN. In 2017, the Internal Revenue Service and postal
inspectors raided the church after obtaining a search warrant. Trinity
Foundation investigators strongly suspect that Hinn immediately hired a
defense
attorney and paid the IRS millions of dollars to prevent a criminal
trial.
|
| David Holsten |
Mission Aviation Fellowship |
$2,080,000 |
199 |
No |
No
|
Mission Aviation Fellowship is an ECFA
member and reported almost $87 million in total assets in
2018. |
Larry
Huch
|
Freedom
Center DFW
|
$514,132
|
47
|
No
|
Yes
|
Larry
and Tiz Huch's TV program New
Beginnings airs on Daystar.
|
T.D.
Jakes
|
Potter's House
of Dallas, The
|
$2,568,898
|
270
|
No
|
Yes
|
TD
Jakes Ministries is a trade name registered to the church.
|
| Robert Jeffress |
First Baptist Church of Dallas |
$2,277,135 |
293 |
No |
Yes
|
Pastor Jeffress' TV program Pathway to Victory
airs on
various religious TV networks. |
| Robert Jeffress |
First Baptist Academy |
$409,025 |
68 |
No |
No
|
School operated by First Baptist Church of Dallas. |
| Robert Jeffress |
First Baptist Medical Center |
$1,566,900 |
89 |
No |
No
|
Medical clinic operated by First Baptist Church of
Dallas. |
| David Jeremiah |
Shadow Mountain Community Church |
$2,059,674 |
248 |
No |
Yes
|
David Jeremiah's ministry Turning
Point for God reported $22 million in assets on
its 2018 Form 990. |
| Brian Johnson |
Bethel Music |
$852,200 |
58 |
Yes |
Maybe
|
Related to Bethel Redding. No employees reported on
its 2018 Form 990. |
| Steve Johnson |
Cornerstone Television |
$548,492 |
69 |
Yes |
Yes |
Cable TV channel broadcasting from Pennsylvania. |
| Daniel Kolenda |
Christ for All Nations |
$703,146 |
45 |
Yes |
Yes
|
Evangelistic ministry founded by the late Reinhard
Bonnke. Christ for All
Nations airs on TBN and God TV.
|
| Marcus
and Joni Lamb |
Word
of God
Fellowship |
$3,913,200 |
303
|
No
|
Yes
|
Word
of God
Fellowship is the parent organization of Daystar Television
Network. Daystar purchased a Gulfstream V shortly after being approved
for the PPP loan. In response to Inside Edition investigating the jet,
the network paid back its PPP loan with interest. Lamb
denies paying for the jet with PPP money. |
| Christopher Larson |
Ligonier Ministries |
$1,982,574 |
160 jobs |
Yes |
Yes |
Theologian R.C. Sproul founded the ministry which
publishes
Tabletalk magazine and operates Reformation Bible College. The
late Sproul is not usually thought of as a televangelist but
his sermons are broadcast on NRB TV. |
| Greg Laurie |
Harvest Christian Fellowship |
$2,962,300 |
410 |
No |
Yes
|
Greg Laurie's sermons are broadcast on TBN. |
| previously Carl Lentz |
Hillsong Channel |
$179,300 |
17 |
No |
Yes
|
The Hillsong Channel was created in a
partnership
between TBN and Hillsong. Lentz was fired from Hillsong in
the
beginning of November due to an affair and a successor has yet to be
chosen. |
previously
Carl
Lentz
|
Hillsong
NYC LLC
|
$623,500 |
43
|
No
|
Yes
|
Hillsong's
American churches are registered as limited liability companies, an
unusual practice, but not illegal. Lentz was fired from
Hillsong in the beginning of November due to an affair and a successor
has yet to be chosen. |
| Guillermo
Maldonado |
Ministerio
Internacional El Rey Jesús |
$2,027,537
|
287
|
No
|
Yes
|
Ministerio
Internacional El Rey Jesús is reportedly America's largest
hispanic church and is located in Miami. Maldonado's ministry owns a
Dassault Falcon 50 jet,
N37KH. |
Joyce
Meyer
|
Joyce
Meyer
Ministries
|
$5,084,900 |
402
|
No
|
Yes
|
Joyce
Meyer
Ministries is a member of the Evangelical Council for Financial
Accountability which provides basic financial
information about the ministry.
Joyce Meyer Ministries also owns a Gulfstream IV jet. |
| Paul Morton |
Greater St Stephen Full Gospel |
$253,282 |
30 |
No |
Yes |
Morton is pastor of two megachurches and his TV program
airs on The Word Network. |
| Todd and Julie Mullins |
Christ Fellowship Church |
$4,613,992 |
448 |
No |
No
|
Multi-site church with almost 30,000 attendees before
covid-19.
|
| Joel Osteen |
Lakewood Church |
$4,436,224 |
368 |
No |
Yes |
Osteen's Lakewood Church is the largest megachurch in
the
U.S. None of the loan was used for his salary. The
church
did not apply for the loan initially and the loan was granted in the
July / August period. |
| Rod
Parsley |
World
Harvest Church |
$1,771,400 |
165
|
No
|
Yes
|
Televangelist
Rod Parsley's TV program Breakthrough
airs on Word Network.
|
Peter
Popoff
|
People
United for
Christ
|
$512,667
|
68
|
No
|
Yes
|
In
1986, on
Johnny Carson's The Tonight Show guest James Randi revealed that
televangelist Popoff received messages from his wife over a radio
receiver, rather than from God. Video of the broadcast is on YouTube.
|
Frederick
Price
|
Crenshaw
Christian
Center Church
|
$1,884,847
|
157
|
No
|
Yes
|
The
TV program Ever
Increasing Faith With Fred K. Price is broadcast on TBN
and Daystar.
|
Richard
Roberts
|
Oral
Roberts
Evangelistic Association
|
$369,200
|
54
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Oral
Roberts
Evangelistic Association has lost more than half its employees since
2017. In 2019 the ministry reported $3 million in assets.
|
| Touré and Sarah Jakes Roberts |
Potter's House of Denver |
$229,800 |
22 |
No |
No
|
Sarah Jakes Roberts, daughter of T.D. Jakes was
in the news for purchasing a $4 million home. |
| Sid Roth |
The Messianic Vision |
$589,600 |
0 |
No |
Yes
|
The TV program Sid
Roth's It's Supernatural
is known for featuring people claiming to have messages from
God. The guests are often questionable. |
| Robert "Bobby" Schuller |
Crystal Cathedral Ministries |
$414,709 |
Unknown |
No |
Yes |
Produces the Hour of Power TV program. |
| Jay
Sekulow and Pat Robertson |
American
Center for
Law & Justice |
$1,232,300 |
87 |
Yes |
Yes
|
Jay Sekulow is the CEO of the organization
and Pat Robertson is president. Gary Sekulow is the CFO of
this organization and Jay Sekulow's related organization Christian
Advocates Serving Evangelism,
which uses the tradename American Center for Law and Justice.
It's 2019 form 990 reported
$58 million in total assets of which $31 million are invested in
publicly traded securities. Sekulow's TV program airs on TBN. |
| David and Vicki Shearin |
Word
of Life Christian Center |
$398,000 |
76 |
No |
Yes
|
Produces the TV
show The
Word for Living. |
| Kerry Shook |
Fellowship of the Woodlands Church |
$1,485,100 |
175 |
No |
Yes
|
TV program is featured on TBN. |
| Ward Simpson |
Angel Christian Trust Inc |
$239,765 |
14 |
Yes |
Yes
|
Angel Christian Trust is better known as God TV. |
| Judah Smith |
Churchome |
$1,622,942 |
115 |
No |
No |
This megachurch, previously named City Church, is
located near Seattle, Washington. |
| Johnson
Suleman |
Omega
Fire
Ministries Worldwide |
$188,252 |
16 |
No |
Yes
|
Johnson
Suleman is
a Nigerian pastor and televangelist. |
Andrew
Sumrall
|
Family
Broadcasting
Corporation
|
$1,196,600
|
70 jobs
|
No
|
Yes
|
Family
Broadcasting
was founded by televangelist Lester Sumrall and was originally named
LeSea Broadcasting.
|
Jimmy
Swaggart
|
Family
Worship
Center
|
$2,612,687
|
330
|
No
|
Yes
|
Jimmy
Swaggart Ministries is a trade name registered to Family Worship
Center. |
| Chuck Swindoll |
Stonebriar Community Church |
$1,779,800 |
399 |
No |
No
|
Swindoll also oversees the non-profit organization Insight
for Living which produces a radio program of the same name. |
| David E. Taylor |
Joshua Media Ministries International |
$31,400 |
3 |
No |
Yes |
Taylor's TV program Miracle Mondays is
broadcast on
The Word Network. The link is for a 2017 form 990.
Taylor
appears to have stopped filing them. |
| Mark Taylor |
Tyndale House Ministries |
$4,185,645 |
222 |
Yes |
No |
The ministry began operating in 2019.
|
| Casey Treat |
Christian Faith Center |
$506,600 |
63 |
No |
Yes
|
Casey Treat's TV program airs on the Hillsong Channel
|
| Kris Vallotton |
Bethel Media |
$496,300 |
77 |
Yes |
Yes
|
Related to Bethel Redding. Almost $2.5 million in total
assets and no employees were reported on latest Form 990 (2018). Bethel
Media
runs Bethel TV which operates as a premium subscription web-based TV
channel.
|
| Rick Warren |
Purpose Driven Connection |
511,000 |
38 |
Yes |
No |
In their most recent Form 990 (2018), Purpose Driven
Connection reports zero employees. |
| Rick Warren |
Purpose Driven Publishers |
211,600 |
13 |
No |
No |
In 2019 Purpose Driven Communications changed its name
to
Purpose Driven Publishers.Although corporate papers indicate this
organization is a non-profit, there is no record of either name in the
IRS database. |
| Michael Warsaw |
Eternal Word Television Network |
$4,677,500 |
0 |
Yes |
Yes
|
In 2018, Eternal Word Television Network reported
$4 million in total assets. |
| Jane
Whaley |
Word
of Faith
Fellowship |
$271,860 |
58 |
No |
No
|
Trinity Foundation sent an undercover
employee into this church in 1994 resulting in an Inside Edition
esposé. Often classified as a cult, the church
isolates
members
from
their families and is the target of an investigative book
titled Broken
Faith: Inside the Word of Faith Fellowship, One of America's Most
Dangerous Cults. |
Paula
White
|
City
of Destiny
|
$259,200
|
30
|
No
|
Yes
|
Paula
White's TV program The
Walk airs on Daystar. Formerly known as the New
Destiny Christian Center.
|
| Rick Wiles |
Flowing Streams Church |
$294,365 |
Unknown |
No |
Yes |
Trunews
with Rick Wiles airs on TCT Network. PPP loan was obtained
with the name "Office of the senior pastor and president of the The
Flowing Str." |
Bill
Winston
|
Living
Word
Christian Center |
$1,879,310
|
147
|
No
|
Yes
|
Televangelist
pastors Bill Winston and Mac Hammond both have churches with the same
name. Winston's
church also owns a private Gulfstream IV jet, N316VB. While
the church doesn't file a Form 990, Bill
Winston Ministries does file.
|
| Frank Wright |
Coral Ridge Ministries Media Inc |
$354,665 |
25 |
Yes |
Yes |
Producer of the Coral
Ridge Hour which features the sermons of the late D. James
Kennedy. |
| KP Yohannan |
Gospel for Asia |
$611,800 |
0 |
No |
No
|
In 2019, Gospel for Asia spent $37 million settling a
lawsuit
after being accused of fraud. Bloggers carefully reported on the
scandal, unlike the religious press, according to journalist Julie
Roys. |
| Ed Young Jr |
Fellowship Church |
$1,520,345 |
134 |
No |
Yes
|
Ed Young Jr's sermons are broadcast on TBN. |
| Ravi Zacharias |
Ravi Zacharias Ministries International |
$1,575,700 |
102 |
No |
Yes |
Let My
People Think With Ravi Zacharias airs on Vision TV. Basic
financial information is available because RZIM is a member of ECFA.
Accusations of sexual abuse have surfaced regarding Zacharias who died
in May 2020. |
