· Public charity
American Bible Society
Since 1816, AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY has been fulfilling its mission of making the bible available to every person in a language and format each can understand and afford so all people may experience its life-changing message.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 27 grants below total $4,652,128 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $18,281,369 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $13,629,241 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $7k
- $10k–50k17 grants · $281k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $679k
- $250k+2 grants · $3.7M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FLDC | $3,354,850 |
| Big Life International INC | $330,000 |
| Renew World Outreach org | $224,793 |
| Good News Center Inc | $114,500 |
| The Timothy Initiative Inc | $100,000 |
| Josiah Venture NFP | $78,000 |
| Good News Publishers | $57,116 |
| Global Missions Comm Outreach Inc | $55,000 |
| Talking Books International Inc | $50,000 |
| One Way Ministries | $35,000 |
| Healing Africa Ministries | $35,000 |
| National Hispanic Leadership Conference | $20,000 |
| National Lithograph Inc | $14,903 |
| Wycliff Bible Translators | $14,888 |
| The Sending Project | $14,434 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY21–21, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
Grants abroad, by region — $11M on the FY2025 return
Schedule F, as filed: 9 regions. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.
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US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
46 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2025, 26 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $653k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- HHOSANNA5× · 2019–2024 · $1.7M · revenue +101%
- RUReaching Unreached Nations Inc2× · 2019–2020 · $1.6M · revenue +33%
- TWThe Word for the World USA2× · 2022–2023 · $600k · revenue +33%
Funded once
- FOFriends of Agapeone grant, 2022 · $372k · revenue +6%
- BNBLACKHAWK NETWORK INCone grant, 2021 · $178k
- SRSTRATEGIC RESOURCE GROUP INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $151k · revenue +87%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community is a ministry aimed at leading the head of every nation and other top leaders to faith in Jesus Christ and helping them to walk in dependence upon God as they discharge the…
Bible Translation and acts of Christian Services
Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.
Global City Mission Initiative is dedicated to cross-cultural evanglism, disciplemaking, church planting among diverse diaspora populations in strategic cities reaching out evangelistically to start multiply churches, training believers to…
To provide the bible in accurate, contemporary translations and formats so that more people around the world will have the opportunity to be transformed by jesus christ.
The organization is dedicated to reaching people for christ through an international network of christians who journey with the poor and marginalized, bringing practical and spiritual support with hope of a better future,(continued on…
To spread the gospel of jesus christ through crusades
International missions: this organization is an international mission agency focusing on leadership development through teaching of the scriptures
Serving and pastoring overseas workers on their own turf and equipping nationals by training and empowering them in their work of advancing the gospel.
Walk thru the bible (wtb) ignites passion for god's word. by developing a global network of influential pastors and leaders and then resourcing them with tools and training, wtb fulfills its role in the great commission.
North America Bible Institute (NABI) is an evangelical graduate school, made up of students who are diverse in both ethnicity and ministry aims -- but united in great love for Jesus and his gospel. As a graduate school, NABI offers them…
We do bible translation with the kingdom perspective, therefore we go beyond making "a" new chinese translation for the chinese only; we strive to serve the ethnic minority groups in china and other countries as well. crossing national and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Christian Hope Indian Eskimo Fellowship and the most unlike its peers is Veterans of Foreign Wars of the 6461. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 23 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
86 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 86 of the 91 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds FAITH AND LIBERTY DISCOVERY CENTER LLC ↗
- Who funds Clear Bible Inc ↗
- Who funds HOSANNA ↗
- Who funds Reaching Unreached Nations Inc ↗
- Who funds The New York City Leadership Center Inc ↗
- Who funds Renew World Outreach Inc ↗
- Who funds Global Generosity Inc ↗
- Who funds The Word for the World USA ↗
- Who funds GOOD NEWS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CAMBRIDGE DIGITAL BIBLE RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds DEAF BIBLE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds Friends of Agape ↗
- Who funds BIGLIFE INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds Elam Ministries ↗
- Who funds Tyndale House Ministries ↗
- Who funds QUEST TRAUMA HEALING CENTERS ↗
- Who funds Good News Publishers ↗
- Who funds STRATEGIC RESOURCE GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds SAT-7 NORTH AMERICA ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF THE BIBLE ↗
- Who funds BOSTON COLLABORATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds THE TIMOTHY INITIATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL LATINO EVANGELICAL COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds THE SENDING PROJECT ↗
- Who funds Josiah Venture ↗
- Who funds BAYLOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds HOPE OF THE NATIONSINC ↗
- Who funds WORLDSERVE MINISTRIES ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: International Generosity Foundation Trust · Tyndale House Ministries · The Bolick Foundation · The Signatry Charitable Trust · Fisher House Foundation Inc · G II Charities · Gordon Christian Trust · Illuminations Foundation Inc · Finishing Fund Management · The Bowlers to Veterans Link · The Maclellan Foundation Inc · God's Gift
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization American Bible Society funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.