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Bibles for Missions Thrift Centers

To raise funds for strategically selected ministries that share the good news of jesus christ around the world.

$5.6M
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
6
Grants FY2025
6
Organizations funded FY2024
0%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$694,600
Largest grant, FY2025
$2,752,300
Organizations funded a year
6 to 6
FY2020 to FY2024
Total assets, FY2025
$12M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Bibles for Missions Thrift Centers funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time
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 yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving6$5.6M0%
FY20246$4.6M0%
FY20236$4.4M0%
FY20226$4.2M0%
FY20216$3.5M0%
FY20206$2.3Mn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Religion$17MInternational$1.5M

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Bible League$13,085,1006n/a
International Gospel Outreach$3,498,200652%
Minnesota Coalition for Eastern Europe$2,979,4006100%
Living Water International$2,033,30062%
Unknown Nations$1,622,09968%
Bellevue Baptist Church$1,316,5506n/a

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.

Natl Christian Charitable Fdn IncGA9.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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.

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How do I get to Bibles for Missions Thrift Centers?

Find your warmest path to Bibles for Missions Thrift Centers through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Bibles for Missions Thrift Centers

How much does Bibles for Missions Thrift Centers give?
Bibles for Missions Thrift Centers reported 6 grants totaling $5,604,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 6 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does Bibles for Missions Thrift Centers fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (92%), International (8%).
Who are Bibles for Missions Thrift Centers's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Bible League ($13M), International Gospel Outreach ($3.5M), Minnesota Coalition for Eastern Europe ($3.0M).
Does Bibles for Missions Thrift Centers fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Bibles for Missions Thrift Centers?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is Bibles for Missions Thrift Centers based?
Bibles for Missions Thrift Centers is based in MI.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 6 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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