India's Christian schools, hospitals, charities, missions and places of worship are more than religious institutions. They are employers, service networks, assets and communities. The Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Amendment Bill, 2026 raises a difficult economic question: what happens when foreign-contribution-linked assets outlive the funding that helped create them? This evidence-led investigation follows the rupee from receipt to asset, and grades every claim as established fact, not established, official position, criticism or unresolved.