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Back to the Bible Foundation
The foundation's purpose is to increase public support to benefit the purposes of back to the bible and similar other nonprofit ministries whose philosophies of ministry are consistent with the back to the bible's philosophy.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 24 grants below total $601,566 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $706,126 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $104,560 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 $10k9 grants · $62k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $199k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $340k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BRANCHES PREGNANCY AND FAMILY CENTER | $112,000 |
| EMMAUS MENNONITE CHURCH | $84,000 |
| NEWTON BIBLE CHURCH | $82,544 |
| BACK TO THE BIBLE GNBA | $61,885 |
| CRU TOTAL | $37,718 |
| AVANT MINISTRIES TOTAL | $29,200 |
| BEREAN CHRISTIAN ACADEMY TOTAL | $25,150 |
| GLOBAL SERVE INTERNATIONAL TOTAL | $17,000 |
| CEF INTERNATIONAL TOTAL | $14,000 |
| SAMARITANS PURSE | $14,000 |
| PIONEERS TOTAL | $13,050 |
| VICTORY BIBLE CAMP TOTAL | $12,531 |
| SEND INTERNATIONAL TOTAL | $12,100 |
| FRONTIERS USA | $12,000 |
| ETHNOS 360 | $12,000 |
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 (FY19–25, $277k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +44% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
29 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 2 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k 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
- CECHILD EVANGELISM FELLOWSHIP INC9× · 2017–2025 · $278k · revenue +30%
- BPBRANCHES PREGNANCY AND FAMILY CENTER INC6× · 2019–2025 · $277k · revenue +104%
- BCBEREAN CHRISTIAN LAYMEN'S ASSOCIATION9× · 2017–2025 · $231k · revenue +26%
Funded once
- OCOSHOTO COMMUNITY CHURCHone grant, 2021 · $18k
- WIWORLD IMPACT INCone grant, 2017 · $14k
- EEEvangelical Entrprisesone grant, 2018 · $10k
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…
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.
Far Reaching Ministries (FRM) was founded to carry the Gospel Jesus Christ to the world with discipleship as our primary objective. We plant and edify evangelical churches, found Bible schools, gather intimate small groups, and sustain…
Mobilization of churches in America by taking pastors and laymen on vision and service trips overseas in fulfillment of Jesus command to go ye into all the world, making disciples...
Purpose is sending individuals around the world to win souls to jesus christ by preaching the gospel evangelism.
World christian broadcasting exists so that people in places best served by broadcast media become aware of the good news of jesus christ and want to know more. geographic areas that cannot be easily served by missionaries are a priority.
Crossing Cultures International, Inc. exists to glorify God by equipping Christ followers globally with comprehensive training for effective ministry.
Bible Translation and acts of Christian Services
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…
CrossTalk Global is a Christian educational organization that empowers and trains global church leaders to effectively communicate the Scriptures and share the hope of Christ in their communities. These projects are carried out in the USA…
Leveraging technology to invite all people to know jesus christ as savior and grow in a personal relationship with him.
To assist the global body of Christ in the evangelization, education, and impartation of spiritual growth to unevangelized peoples, and Christian adherents.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Child Evangelism Fellowship Inc and the most unlike its peers is Samaritan's Purse. 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 57 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
20 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. 20 of the 42 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 BACK TO THE BIBLE ↗
- Who funds CHILD EVANGELISM FELLOWSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds BRANCHES PREGNANCY AND FAMILY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BEREAN CHRISTIAN LAYMEN'S ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Psalm 119 Association Inc ↗
- Who funds SAT-7 NORTH AMERICA ↗
- Who funds Youth for Christ International Ministries ↗
- Who funds VICTORY MINISTRIES OF ALASKA INC ↗
- Who funds FAR EAST BROADCASTING COMPANY ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds CHILD EVANGELISM FELLOWSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL SERVE INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds Central Missionary Clearinghouse Inc ↗
- Who funds FRONTIER SCHOOL OF THE BIBLE ↗
- Who funds WORLD VISION INC ↗
- Who funds MIO Frontiers ↗
- Who funds RURAL HOME MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds WORLD RADIO MISSIONARY FELLOWSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds INDIA GOSPEL OUTREACH INC ↗
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: Servant Foundation · Christian Community Foundation Inc · The Signatry Charitable Trust · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Steer Inc · Eden Bridge Foundation · Chattanooga Christian Community Foundation · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Gift Fund · The US Charitable Gift Trust
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 Back to the Bible Foundation 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.
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