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Museum of the Bible

The MUSEUM OF THE BIBLE is an innovative, global, and educational institution whose purpose is to invite all people to engage with the transformative power of the bible.

$200k
Granted FY2025still arriving
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Grants FY2025still arriving
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States reached
$200k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Religion$6.5MEducation$2.7MHuman Services$850kArts & Culture$222kScience & Tech$72kInternational$58k
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$200,000
Median grant
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States reached
$450M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF ANCIENT JUDAISM AND CHRISTIAN ORIGINS$200,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $650k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%THE CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF ANCIENT JUDAISM AND CHRISTIAN ORIGINS: $200k → 14%THE CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF ANCIENT JUDAISM AND CHRISTIAN ORIGINS: $175k → 14%THE CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF ANCIENT JUDAISM AND CHRISTIAN ORIGINS: $150k → 14%THE CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF ANCIENT JUDAISM AND CHRISTIAN ORIGINS: $125k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
IL
NY
IN
PA
CA
MO
DE
KS
NC
LA
TX
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 45% of Museum of the Bible’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Museum of the Biblelessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 62% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$7.1M · 8 repeat orgs$631k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +96% since the first grant, against +16% for those funded once.

8 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

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Total granted

$7.1M
$631k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+96%
+16%

Still filing today

75%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

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EducationReligionInternationalHuman ServicesOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • PA
    PASSAGES AMERICA ISRAEL INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $5.0M · revenue +61% · 42% of their budget
  • TC
    THE CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF ANCIENT JUDAISM AND CH
    5× · 2020–2025 · $850k · revenue +39% · 84% of their budget
  • ST
    SHEPHERDS THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY INC
    6× · 2017–2023 · $459k · revenue +594%

Funded once

  • AF
    American Friends of Tyndale House Cambridge Incgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $222k · revenue +255% · 32% of their budget
  • PO
    PULSE OUTREACH
    one grant, 2020 · $150k · revenue +8%
  • TW
    THE WILLIAM FOXWELL ALBRIGHT INSTIT OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL RESEARCH IN JERUS
    one grant, 2017 · $72k · revenue +16%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

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Jerusalem Seminary

Motivated by the knowledge that the Word of the Lord will go forth from Jerusalem to the Nations, and guided by a commitment to read the New Testament in its first century context, Jerusalem Seminary provides cutting-edge ministry training…

Religion
2
Asbury Theological Seminary

Asbury Theological Seminary is a community called to prepare theologically educated, sanctified, Spirit-filled men and women to evangelize and to spread scriptural holiness throughout the world through the love of Jesus Christ, in the…

Education
3
Wesley Biblical Seminary

Wesley biblical seminary is a multi-denominational school of theology that provides undergraduate, graduate and doctorate level education for individuals who are preparing for christian service.

Education
4
The Bible Seminary

To foster biblical literacy through studies of all 66 books of the bible, cultivate professional and lay leadership skills, and deploy trained christian disciples in service worldwide.

Education
5
Reformed University Inc

Provide education in theology, divinity, religious education, ministerial training, business and organizational leadership.

Education
6
Regent University

Regent University serves as a center of Christian thought and action to provide excellent education through a Biblical perspective and global context equipping Christian leaders to change the world.

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Hebrew University of Jerusalem

To promote, encourage, aid and advance higher and secondary education, research and training in all branches of knowledge. as the standard bearer of excellence, the university strives to ensure and foster outstanding achievements in all…

Education
8
Olivet University

Providing guality Christian education to the network generation

Education
9
The King's University

The King's University integrates Biblical education and practical ministry to shape Spirit-formed individuals who follow Jesus, serve His Church, and are sent to impact the world.

Education
10
Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary

To prepare students to serve christ and his church through biblical, experiential and practical ministry. prts provides theological training and instruction in accordance with the scriptures and the historic reformed creeds for promotion…

Education
11
Hebrew College

Promotes excellence in jewish learning & leadership within a pluralistic environment. see sch ohebrew college promotes excellence in jewish learning and leadership within a pluralistic environment of open inquiry, intellectual rigor,…

Education
12
The Chancellor Masters and Scholars of the University of Cambridge

The mission of the university of cambridge is to contribute to society through the pursuit of education, learning, and research at the highest international levels of excellence. organizationally, we achieve this through two divisions…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wheaton College; the most unlike its peers is Dead Sea Scrolls Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

17 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 17 of the 19 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
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Grantees still filing
14/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PASSAGES AMERICA ISRAEL INC: $4,959,333 · EducationPASSAGES AMERICA ISRAEL INCWheaton College: $2,275,000 · EducationWheaton CollegeSHEPHERDS THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY INC: $458,975 · EducationSHEPHERDS THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY INCEarly Manuscripts Electronic Library: $445,470 · EducationEarly Manuscripts Electronic Library+4 more: $195,563 · EducationTHE CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF ANCIENT JUDAISM AND CH: $850,000 · Human ServicesTHE CENTE…American Friends of Tyndale House Cambridge Inc: $222,386 · ReligionServant Foundation: $160,000 · ReligionPULSE OUTREACH: $150,200 · ReligionOhr Torah Stone Institutions of Israel: $60,000 · ReligionABILENE CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY: $254,533 · OtherWORLD OF THE BIBLE MINISTRIES INC: $145,000 · OtherTHE WILLIAM FOXWELL ALBRIGHT INSTIT OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL RESEARCH IN JERUS: $72,000 · OtherNEW ORLEANS BAPTIST THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY: $55,500 · OtherDEAD SEA SCROLLS FOUNDATION INC: $35,000 · OtherJERUSALEM UNIVERSITY COLLEGE: $57,753 · International
Education$8,334,341Human Services$850,000Religion$592,586Other$562,033International$57,753

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPASSAGES AMERICA ISRAEL INC: $4,959,333 over 2y, 42% of budgetWheaton College: $2,275,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF ANCIENT JUDAISM AND CH: $850,000 over 5y, 84% of budgetSHEPHERDS THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY INC: $458,975 over 6y, 5.0% of budgetEarly Manuscripts Electronic Library: $445,470 over 3y, 46% of budgetABILENE CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY: $254,533 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Friends of Tyndale House Cambridge Inc: $222,386 over 1y, 32% of budgetServant Foundation: $160,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetPULSE OUTREACH: $150,200 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF EXETER US FOUNDATION: $101,577 over 4y, 25% of budgetTHE WILLIAM FOXWELL ALBRIGHT INSTIT OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL RESEARCH IN JERUS: $72,000 over 1y, 8.4% of budgetOhr Torah Stone Institutions of Israel: $60,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetJERUSALEM UNIVERSITY COLLEGE: $57,753 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetST LOUIS UNIVERSITY: $56,986 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDEAD SEA SCROLLS FOUNDATION INC: $35,000 over 1y, 24% of budgetAZUSA PACIFIC UNIVERSITY: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBAYLOR UNIVERSITY: $12,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

Christian Community F…Servant FoundationNatl Christian Charit…American Endowment Fo…Vanguard Charitable E…Morgan Stanley Global…National Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Christian Community Foundation IncCO14.5× affinity5 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Christian Community Foundation Inc · Servant Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Museum of the Bible funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Museum of the Bible. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 00%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    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 19 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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