CENTRAL MISSIONARY CLEARINGHOUSE INC

What CENTRAL MISSIONARY CLEARINGHOUSE INC does

Central Missionary Clearinghouse (CMC) is a Texas-incorporated 501(c)(3) religious non-profit founded in February 1974 by Rev. Jack Bridges in Pasadena, Texas. The organization provides financial processing and administrative services to approximately 700 Christian missionary families operating in roughly 88 countries. Its core offering centers on receiving gifts from supporting churches and individual donors, issuing tax-deductible receipts, maintaining per-missionary fund accounts (savings, building, furlough, emergency), processing bill payments and insurance premiums, handling quarterly tax payments and legal documentation, and remitting accumulated funds to missionaries by the last business day of each month. CMC earns revenue via a flat $3.50 per-gift transaction fee, independent of gift size, and its services are positioned around a non-control philosophy: the organization explicitly does not dictate how missionaries spend funds, how much they may receive, or where they serve.

CMC's product surface comprises three components: (1) the core financial clearinghouse service delivered through a Houston-based office (PO Box 219228, Houston, TX 77218); (2) the My Click and Give online donation platform, which accepts bank account payments and credit cards and routes gifts to specific missionary families or to administrative and global projects; and (3) a Digital Library providing access to over 10,000 biblical and historical resources. Donations are accepted via cash, checks, online bill pay, credit/debit cards, stock transfers through Ameriprise, non-cash gifts such as vehicles and jewelry, life insurance beneficiary designations, planned/estate gifts, and employer gift-matching programs. The organization employs 1–10 staff and is led by President Dr. Larry Maddox (Senior Pastor of Central Baptist Church, Houston) with Vice President Linda Bridges and a board drawn primarily from independent Baptist church leadership.

CMC's go-to-market is exclusively word-of-mouth and referral-based; the organization has never advertised. Distribution occurs through direct mail to the Houston PO Box and through the My Click and Give platform, with counterparties consisting of 6,000+ churches and 8,000+ individual donors. Geographic reach spans missionaries in North America, Latin America, Europe, Asia, Africa, Oceania, and the Caribbean, supported by reciprocal relationships with parallel missionary support organizations (Global Missionary Clearinghouse, Global Surge). CMC's competitive positioning rests on longevity (50+ years of continuous operation), pastoral alignment with independent Baptist networks, and a non-control stance that distinguishes it from traditional mission agencies.

Name

CENTRAL MISSIONARY CLEARINGHOUSE INC

Legal name

Central Missionary Clearinghouse Inc

Website

https://cmcmissions.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

1974

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Central Missionary Clearinghouse processes donations and provides back-office financial services to approximately 700 Christian missionary families across 88 countries, handling gift receipts from 6,000+ churches and 8,000+ donors at a flat $3.50 per-gift fee.

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akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Houston

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B and B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure, Others

Revenue model

1. Gift Processing Fee: CMC charges a flat fee of $3.50 per gift received. This covers expenses for receiving, processing, and receipting of donors. The fee is per designation rather than a percentage of support, providing cost predictability for missionaries.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels1 record

Core offering

Central Missionary Clearinghouse (CMC) processes donations and provides administrative financial services to Christian missionaries and ministries. The organization receives gifts from donors, issues tax-deductible receipts, maintains individual missionary accounts, manages designated funds (savings, building, furlough, emergency), and handles bill payments, insurance premiums, retirement programs, and quarterly tax payments. Funds are delivered by the last business day of each month.

Product overview

Central Missionary Clearinghouse operates as a single unified service offering focused on missionary financial processing. The core product is CMC's financial administration service, which handles fund processing, tax-deductible receipting, account management, and payment services for missionary families. This is complemented by My Click and Give, an online donation platform enabling donors to contribute via bank accounts and credit cards. Additionally, CMC provides access to the Digital Library Resources containing biblical and historical materials. These offerings work together to support CMC's mission of serving missionaries without outside organizational control.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• CMC Financial Processing Services Core financial processing service for missionaries that receives gifts from donors, issues tax-deductible receipts, maintains individual missionary accounts, prepares reports, manages savings, building, furlough, and emergency funds, and processes bill payments, insurance premiums, hospitalization and retirement programs, and quarterly tax payments. Targeted at missionary families serving in approximately 88 countries.
• My Click and Give Online donation platform that allows donors to make gifts via bank account payments and credit cards to support CMC missionary families, administrative projects, and global initiatives. Provides donors a private giving solution with the ability to manage their giving.
• CMC Digital Library Resources Digital library providing access to over 10,000 biblical and historical resources including Bible versions, commentaries, historical references, language studies, Greek and Hebrew resources, and graphical Bible resources, intended for use by missionaries.

Quantifiable outcome

• Over 50 years of continuous operation serving missionaries
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers3 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

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Has API

No

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Partnerships

Two partnerships are on record, tiered minor.

• Global Missionary Clearinghouse (GMC)minorOthersRelated organization with overlapping mission focus. Listed as a missionary organization alongside CMC with shared contact information ([email protected]).
• Global SurgeminorOthersRelated missionary organization mentioned on CMC missionary listing page. Serves similar missionary support function.

Scale indicators6 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• ABWE (Association of Baptists for World Evangelism): Baptist mission-sending agency that recruits, supports, and processes support funds for missionaries worldwide. Closest doctrinal and functional analog to CMC: provides financial, administrative, and pastoral support to member missionaries on the field.
• Pioneers: Interdenominational mission-sending organization that recruits, trains, and supports missionaries, processing donor support funds through a centralized financial system. Comparable to CMC in mission-administrative support and donor clearinghouse function, though broader denominationally.
• SIM (Serving In Mission): Global evangelical mission organization that processes donor support, provides member care, and handles fund administration for missionaries in dozens of countries — directly comparable to CMC's clearinghouse role at larger scale.
• SEND International: Faith-based missionary-sending agency that recruits, supports, and disburses donor funds to missionaries; offers comparable centralized financial processing and member-care services to CMC's constituency.

Broad incumbents

• International Mission Board (SBC): Largest US-based missionary-sending organization; processes church support, holds missionary accounts, and administers field funds at denominational scale — a much larger but functionally similar organization to CMC.
• ChildFund International: International NGO that processes recurring charitable contributions to overseas beneficiaries (children, missionaries, field-workers) through a centralized giving and disbursement infrastructure. Comparable donation-processing operating model at enterprise NGO scale.
• National Christian Foundation: Donor-advised fund administrator focused on Christian causes; pools individual and church contributions and disburses to missionaries and ministries. Comparable in facilitating tax-deductible flows to missionaries, though structured as a DAF rather than a support-organization.

Regional players

• Wycliffe Bible Translators: Faith-based organization recruiting and supporting missionaries with centralized donation processing for field workers. Functional analog to CMC in administering support funds for missions, focused on Bible translation rather than general evangelical work.

Emerging players

• Teen Missions International: Christian mission organization that recruits, supports, and processes support funds for missionaries and short-term teams. Smaller-scale functional peer to CMC with overlapping donation-processing and field-worker support activities.

Others

• Baptist Bible Fellowship International (BBFI): Independent Baptist fellowship network with overlapping doctrinal community and shared leadership bench as CMC (multiple CMC directors are BBFI pastors). Adjacent ecosystem player rather than direct processing competitor.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks7 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Number of profiles

Profiles6 records

Funding overview

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