Financial Integrity

Financial Integrity

$38. a month improves your child’s life in a variety of ways.
Here’s how sponsorship funds are invested:

Plus + $8.

$5.00 Directly Benefits Child
Food assistance, education-related expenses and faith development are shared in a safe environment.

$1.25 Empowering a Global Team
Each precious child is served by an entire Global Team. These loving men and women, sacrificially give their lives to the management of the iccm program, and ultimately to the care and development of the children.

$1.25 Leveraging Technology
Advancing opportunities around the globe!

$ .50 Administration & Support Services

85% of the first $30 of every sponsorship is used for program expenses, including:

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child's direct benefit

80% is given for…  the child’s education-related expenses, food and other essentials, and the means of providing this assistance locally. Depending on the mode of sponsorship, this could cover tuition, books and uniforms at an ICCM school, programming in a Holistic Child Development center, residential care so the child can access public school, or the cost of education and necessities provided through the family.

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high school scholarships

5% is given for…  high school scholarships for students whose sponsors stop sponsoring before the student graduates, or who never were chosen by a sponsor.

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administrative

15% is given for…  the cost of leading and administering the global program from our office in Indianapolis, IN. This includes salaries, travel, communications, promotion and the expenses related to oversight and proper financial management.

Gifts to sponsored children (aside from regular sponsorship contributions) have no administrative fee deducted. 10% administrative/ processing fees are deducted from contributions to our special funds or projects.

No goods or services are provided to the donors in exchange for tax-deductible gifts.  ICCM thanks you for giving to improve the lives of children in need and will make every effort to honor your requested gift designation.  In the event this is not possible or funding exceeds the need, your gift will be applied to a similar area of ministry which best meets the needs of children.

Note: International Child Care Ministries (ICCM) does not appear on most online charitable giving search engines because its nonprofit status is tied to the Free Methodist USA. FMCUSA is a member in good standing with the Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability (ECFA). 

Financial Information + Privacy Policy

Please make up that payment as soon as possible. When calculating your “paid-through date” the next payment you make is applied to the missed month(s).

Your remittance form is your reminder. If your support is 2 months or more overdue, you will receive a reminder in the mail. If you send annual checks, you may request a reminder by either using the form below or by calling our office at 800.342.5531 ext. 502.

Your email address is the information that is used to access your online account. If we do not have it on file, then it is more difficult for you as the donor to manage your giving on your own. We also use email addresses to contact donors when they have questions that may relate to donations or their sponsorships. 

Having a phone number on file for you serves as the quickest way for ICCM staff to get ahold of you if there are issues with your account, or if we are responding to an inquiry that you have. 

Unfortunately, no. We maintain a separate database, so please update your information in your account or by calling us at 800.342.5531 ext. 502.

No, we do not. Please see our Privacy Policy for more information.

No, we do not. We’re 100% funded by donors and sponsors.

No. Although ICCM is under the FMCUSA ‘umbrella’ we do not receive any subsidization from FMCUSA.

Privacy Policy

We have created this statement to demonstrate our firm commitment to your privacy. We do not collect personally identifying information about you when you visit our site, unless you choose to provide such information to us. Providing such information is strictly voluntary. This policy is your guide to how we will handle information we learn about you from your visit to our website.

Throughout our web pages, we provide links to other servers which may contain information of interest to our readers. We take no responsibility for, and exercise no control over, the organizations, views, or accuracy of the information contained on other servers. Creating a text link from your website to our site does not require permission. If you have a link you’d like us to consider adding to our website, please send an email to iccmsocial@fmcusa.org with the subject “Link request.”

If you would like to publish information that you find on our website, please send your request to iccmsocial@fmcusa.org. Where text or images are posted on our site with the permission of the original copyright holder, a copyright statement appears at the bottom of the page. Information about using our logo and images is available in Media Resources.

This website is designed to be accessible to visitors with disabilities, and to comply with federal guidelines concerning accessibility. We welcome your comments. If you have suggestions on how to make the site more accessible, please contact us at iccmsocial@fmcusa.org.

We collect and store only the following information about you: the name of the domain from which you access the Internet (for example, aol.com, if you are connecting from an America Online account, or princeton.edu if you are connecting from Princeton University’s domain), the date and time you access our site, and the Internet address of the website from which you linked to our site.

We use the information we collect to measure the number of visitors to the different sections of our site, and to help us make our site more useful to visitors.

If you complete the Profile update form and share your personally identifying information, this information will be used only to provide you with more targeted content. We may use your contact information to send further information about our organization or to contact you when necessary. You may always opt-out of receiving future mailings; see the “Opt Out” section below.

You also may decide to send us personally identifying information, for example, in an electronic mail message containing a question or comment, or by filling out a web form that provides us this information. We use personally identifying information from email primarily to respond to your requests. We may forward your email to other employees who are better able to answer you questions. We may also use your email to contact you in the future about our programs that may be of interest.

We want to be very clear: We will not obtain personally identifying information about you when you visit our site, unless you choose to provide such information to us. Providing such information is strictly voluntary. Except as might be required by law, we do not share any information we receive with any outside parties.

If you sign up for one of our email lists, we will only send you the kinds of information you have requested. We won’t share your name or email address with any outside parties.

For children who visit our site, special rules apply. We do not request personal information about children, such as first and last name or street address and city. When kids send email to us, their online contact information (email address) is not used to re-contact them and is not maintained in retrievable form.

Our site provides users the opportunity to opt-out of receiving communications from us through a special online form. You may choose to receive only specific communications or none at all. You may also update your contact information previously provided to us through another online form. You cannot remove yourself from our database, but you can prevent unwanted communication.

If you have any questions about this privacy statement, the practices of this site, or your dealings with this website, you can contact us at: iccmsocial@fmcusa.org.

International Child Care Ministries
PO Box 51710
Indianapolis, IN 46251

CONTACT

Phone: (317) 616-4740
Toll Free: (800) 342-5531 x502
Email: iccmsocial@fmcusa.org
Online Contact Form

WRITE TO YOUR CHILD

The greatest expression of our hope is to love others; to be part of the healing of brokenness in all its forms, for all people. We are thrilled to serve kids and communities regardless of race, ethnicity, identity, gender, faith and religion, or any other way in which discrimination can happen. ICCM is a ministry of the Free Methodist Church, USA, a registered 501(c)3 non-profit.