Pennsylvania · 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.
- $18M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 27
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 15
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 33%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $4.7M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $14,888
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $3,354,850
- Organizations funded a year
- 9 to 39
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 16
- Total assets, FY2025
- $766M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 33% of the organizations American Bible Society funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $156k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
ReligionEducationInternationalCrime & LegalYouth DevelopmentHealthOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 27 | $4.7M | 26% |
| FY2024 | 15 | $3.8M | 33% |
| FY2023 | 39 | $8.2M | 31% |
| FY2022 | 36 | $9.8M | 47% |
| FY2021 | 35 | $9.0M | 80% |
| FY2020 | 9 | $3.3M | 0% |
| FY2019 | 21 | $7.5M | n/a |
100% classified
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Religion$39MInternational$3.0MCommunity Improvement$1.5MHuman Services$1.1MArts & Culture$762kEnvironment$510kHealth$299kYouth Development$289kOther$0
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
AK
WA
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
NV
IA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
MO
VA
MD
NM
KS
TN
NC
DC
OK
GA
TX
FL
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Faith and Liberty Discovery Center LLC | $24,453,550 | 5 | 86% |
| Word 4 Asia - | $4,110,008 | 5 | n/a |
| Clear Bible Inc | $1,784,996 | 2 | 75% |
| Hosanna | $1,671,915 | 5 | 2% |
| Reaching Unreached Nations Inc | $1,607,500 | 2 | 20% |
| The New York City Leadership Center Inc | $1,447,500 | 2 | 18% |
| Renew World Outreach Inc | $1,160,510 | 5 | n/a |
| Wycliffe Bible Translators Inc | $953,192 | 4 | n/a |
| Deaf Missions Inc | $921,586 | 2 | n/a |
| D O O R International | $773,417 | 4 | n/a |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Faith and Liberty Discovery Center LLC | $24,453,550 | 5 | 86% |
| Word 4 Asia - | $4,110,008 | 5 | n/a |
| Clear Bible Inc | $1,784,996 | 2 | 75% |
| Hosanna | $1,671,915 | 5 | 2% |
| Reaching Unreached Nations Inc | $1,607,500 | 2 | 20% |
| The New York City Leadership Center Inc | $1,447,500 | 2 | 18% |
| Renew World Outreach Inc | $1,160,510 | 5 | n/a |
| Wycliffe Bible Translators Inc | $953,192 | 4 | n/a |
| Deaf Missions Inc | $921,586 | 2 | n/a |
| D O O R International | $773,417 | 4 | n/a |
| The Word for the World USA | $600,000 | 2 | 3% |
| Talking Books International Inc | $596,126 | 5 | n/a |
| Eco Solution LLC | $510,407 | 3 | n/a |
| Good News Center Inc | $428,100 | 4 | 13% |
| Cambridge Digital Bible Research | $416,536 | 2 | 25% |
| Deaf Bible Society Inc | $387,379 | 2 | 4% |
| Friends of Agape | $372,377 | 1 | 6% |
| Biglife International Inc | $330,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Elam Ministries | $300,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Tyndale House Ministries | $237,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Rkd Group Inc | $232,704 | 2 | n/a |
| Quest Trauma Healing Centers | $183,983 | 3 | n/a |
| Blackhawk Network Inc | $178,185 | 1 | n/a |
| Good News Publishers | $177,908 | 2 | 0% |
| Strategic Resource Group Inc | $151,446 | 1 | 0% |
| Fedex | $142,321 | 5 | n/a |
| Sat-7 North America | $136,500 | 1 | 2% |
| Museum of the Bible | $110,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Everything Branded USA Inc | $104,629 | 2 | n/a |
| Boston Collaborative Inc | $104,250 | 5 | 30% |
| The Timothy Initiative Inc | $100,000 | 1 | n/a |
| National Latino Evangelical Coalition Inc | $100,000 | 3 | 29% |
| The Sending Project | $97,882 | 4 | 9% |
| Josiah Venture | $78,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Faith Christian Church | $76,918 | 3 | n/a |
| Baylor University | $72,430 | 1 | 0% |
| Transform Minnesota | $65,429 | 4 | n/a |
| Hope of the Nationsinc | $62,449 | 5 | 5% |
| Worldserve Ministries | $59,665 | 5 | 6% |
| Global Missions Comm Outreach Inc | $55,000 | 1 | n/a |
| R & L Carriers Inc | $50,981 | 4 | n/a |
| Cornerstone Counseling Ministries | $43,121 | 3 | 11% |
| Jerusalem Center for Bible Translators Inc | $41,700 | 1 | 12% |
| Davar Partners International | $38,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Trans World Radio | $36,968 | 3 | n/a |
| National Lithograph Inc | $35,097 | 2 | n/a |
| Healing Africa Ministries | $35,000 | 1 | 24% |
| One Way Ministries | $35,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Bill Rice Ranch Inc | $34,546 | 3 | 0% |
| Love Baltimore (Jay Baylor) | $30,937 | 2 | n/a |
| Philadelphia Gospel Movement | $30,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Archdiocese of Philadelphia | $30,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Lutheran Association of Missionaries and Pilots US | $28,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Twin Valley Coffee LLC | $27,786 | 1 | n/a |
| 4imprint Inc | $27,155 | 2 | n/a |
| Seed Company Inc | $24,488 | 2 | n/a |
| Campus Crusade for Christ Inc | $23,332 | 2 | n/a |
| Christian Art Gifts | $23,270 | 1 | n/a |
| Forgotten Man Ministries | $21,274 | 2 | 1% |
| Sociedad Biblica de Pr Inc | $21,250 | 2 | 8% |
| National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference | $20,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Kari Lee Specialties | $17,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Yrc Logistics Global LLC | $16,794 | 2 | n/a |
| The Salvation Army | $15,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Awana Clubs International and Affiliates | $15,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Cooperacion Misionera Iberoamericana Inc | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Radiant Global Logistics | $12,751 | 1 | n/a |
| Wabash College | $12,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Joyce Dalman Printing Services | $12,496 | 2 | n/a |
| Friendship Press Inc | $12,025 | 1 | n/a |
| Tele-Data Services Inc | $11,077 | 1 | n/a |
| Rlj Lodging Trust Master Trs Inc | $10,583 | 1 | n/a |
| Catholic Prison Ministries Coalitio | $10,000 | 1 | 6% |
| National Assoc of Catholic Chaplains | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Campus Crusade for Christ | $9,960 | 8 | n/a |
| Safeguard Business Systems Inc | $9,186 | 1 | n/a |
| Society of Biblical Literature | $9,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Stephen L Walter | $8,319 | 1 | n/a |
| Good News Jail & Prison Ministry | $8,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Fundacion Ramon Pane Inc | $8,000 | 1 | 4% |
| Confluence Ministries | $7,875 | 1 | 3% |
| Lsc Communications Inc | $7,788 | 1 | n/a |
| National Council of the Churches of Christ in the USA | $7,475 | 1 | n/a |
| Clifton & Andrea Riley Enterprises LLC | $7,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Lightning Source LLC | $6,662 | 1 | n/a |
| Full of Hope for Life | $6,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Bridgeport Roman Catholic Diocesan Corporation | $6,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Residence Inn By Marriott Washington DC Capital | $5,352 | 1 | n/a |
| The LEAD Church | $5,034 | 1 | n/a |
| Omni Logistics LLC | $5,009 | 1 | n/a |
Where it is load-bearing
American Bible Society supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 5 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 38 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 38.
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
International Generosity Foundation TrustFL24.8× affinity11 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
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
How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
About American Bible Society
- How much does American Bible Society give?
- American Bible Society reported 27 itemized grants totaling $4,652,128, out of $18,281,369 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 39 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does American Bible Society fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (83%), International (6%), Community Improvement (3%).
- Who are American Bible Society's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Faith and Liberty Discovery Center LLC ($24M), Word 4 Asia - ($4.1M), Clear Bible Inc ($1.8M).
- Does American Bible Society fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as American Bible Society?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include International Generosity Foundation Trust, Tyndale House Ministries, The Bolick Foundation.
- Where is American Bible Society based?
- American Bible Society is based in PA.
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