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Pioneer Bible Translators

PIONEER BIBLE TRANSLATORS exists as a team to disciple bible-less peoples, mobilizing god's people everywhere both to provide enduring access to god's word translated into their languages and to maximize its impact to grow the church.

$1.8M
Granted FY2025still arriving
2
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Religion$517k
02FY2025 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 2 grants below total $25,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,750,851 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $1,725,851 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$15,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$29M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ALLEGRO ORGANIZATIONAL SOLUTIONS$15,000
ASSOCIATION OF COLLEGE MINISTRIES$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 4% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%ALLEGRO ORGANIZATIONAL SOLUTIONS: $15k → 16%All the World Bible Translators: $135k → 12%Deaf Missions: $34k → 12%All the Word Bible Translators: $99k → 12%Deaf Missions: $25k → 12%All the Word Bible Translators: $45k → 12%Deaf Missions: $17k → 12%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.

Grants abroad, by region: $1.7M on the FY2025 return

Schedule F, as filed: 8 regions, $1.1M to organizations and $568k to individuals. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

Sub-Saharan Africa$718k · 42% · 5 grants · 2040 people

Stated purpose: BIBLE TRANSLATION AND LITERACY · GENERAL ASSISTANCE · MEDICAL

Russia and Neighboring States$342k · 20% · 3 grants · 158 people

Stated purpose: BIBLE TRANSLATION AND LITERACY · GENERAL ASSISTANCE · MEDICAL

East Asia and the Pacific$261k · 15% · 3 grants · 355 people

Stated purpose: BIBLE TRANSLATION AND LITERACY · GENERAL ASSISTANCE · MEDICAL

Europe (including Iceland and Greenland)$171k · 10% · 2 grants · 1 person

Stated purpose: BIBLE TRANSLATION AND LITERACY · FOOD

South Asia$110k · 6% · 2 grants · 1 person

Stated purpose: BIBLE TRANSLATION AND LITERACY · GENERAL ASSISTANCE

North America (Canada and Mexico)$99k · 6% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: BIBLE TRANSLATION AND LITERACY

South America$15k · 1% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: BIBLE TRANSLATION AND LITERACY

Middle East and North Africa$360 · 0% · 1 person

Stated purpose: GENERAL ASSISTANCE

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. 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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$465k · 3 repeat orgs$77k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +2% since the first grant, against -6% for those funded once.

3 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
3

Total granted

$465k
$62k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+2%
-6%

Still filing today

67%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 40% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
ReligionInternationalOther
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

  • AT
    ALL THE WORD BIBLE TRANSLATORS INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $369k · revenue -18% · 55% of their budget
  • DM
    DEAF MISSIONS INC
    4× · 2017–2020 · $76k
  • ES
    EVANSVILLE STUDENT CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP
    2× · 2024–2025 · $20k · revenue +2%

Funded once

  • DH
    Deaf Harbor
    one grant, 2024 · $30k · revenue -81%
  • SI
    Summer Institute of Linguistics Inc dba SIL Global
    one grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue -6%
  • PA
    PARTNERS ACROSS CULTURES
    one grant, 2024 · $7k
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
04the grantee network

5 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 5 of the 7 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
5/5
Grantees still filing
2/5
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ALL THE WORD BIBLE TRANSLATORS INC: $369,000 · ReligionALL THE WORD BIBLE TRANSLATORS INCEVANSVILLE STUDENT CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP: $20,000 · ReligionDEAF MISSIONS INC: $76,257 · OtherDEAF MISSIONS INCDeaf Harbor: $30,000 · OtherDeaf HarborPARTNERS ACROSS CULTURES: $7,072 · OtherPARTNERS ACROSS CULTURE…Summer Institute of Linguistics Inc dba SIL Global: $25,000 · InternationalALLEGRO ORGANIZATIONAL SOLUTIONS INC: $15,000 · International
Religion$389,000Other$113,329International$40,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetALL THE WORD BIBLE TRANSLATORS INC: $369,000 over 4y, 55% of budgetDeaf Harbor: $30,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetSummer Institute of Linguistics Inc dba SIL Global: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEVANSVILLE STUDENT CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP: $20,000 over 2y, 2.7% 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.

Natl Christian Charit…Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
Natl Christian Charitable Fdn IncGA9× 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 · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 Pioneer Bible Translators funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Pioneer Bible Translators. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25’26
no gov · 10%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–26
    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 7 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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