Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY
AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 373 organizations whose IRS filings report $95,567,971 to it, the largest being Servant Foundation ($36,219,556). 236 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 70% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $82M
- Funders on record
- 373
- Grants received
- $96M
- Net assets
- $679M
What American Bible Society does
Mission
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.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
In 2025, American Bible Society continued its 209th year of bible-based ministry as we faithfully moved ahead with our vision to see millions of people living in the united states actively engaged in god's word. We will reach this goal by working closely with churches and other bible-based ministries in cities across the u.s. , featuring our wide variety of scripture resources in print and digital formats, as well as our bible-based trauma healing ministry to ease all wounded hearts with the healing power of god's word. American Bible Society helps people experience god through the bible. We provide access to the bible to unreached and underserved people around the world, help people engage in the bible including those in crisis who find restoration through scripture, and advocate for the bible's message of hope here in america. Through the church and a global network of bible societies, we carry god's word where it is needed most. Our research and experience tell us the bible makes us more generous, more compassionate, more loving toward our neighbors, and more hopeful about our future in christ. That's why our mission since 1816 has been to help all people experience the…
$55,335,957 spentof which $18,281,369 as grants$1,084,767 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $55,335,957.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $726M to $841M (+16%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
40% of AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (84% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Jennifer Holloran
Chief executive officer
Board chair
Nicole Johansson
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 91 funders to 162 funders, grant income fell $11M → $5.7M.
45 of 373 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 70% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 373 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 62%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
79% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 68% · 2018 70% · 2019 61% · 2020 65% · 2021 48% · 2022 29% · 2023 19% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
43% of AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
70% of AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $28M that is directly attributable, 90% of it comes from funders outside Pennsylvania, across 42 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $67M arriving through sponsors registered in 23 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 127 religion nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 127 religion nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
76% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
73%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 24 states
Part of a family of 14 related entities
- Faith and Liberty Discovery Center · exempt
- Charitable Remainder Annuity Trust (5) · corp_trust
- Charitable Remainder Annuity Trust (2) · corp_trust
- Charitable Remainder Unitrust (3) · corp_trust
- Charitable Remainder Unitrust (1) · corp_trust
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY?
- AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 373 organizations whose IRS filings report $95,567,971 to it, the largest being Servant Foundation ($36,219,556). 236 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 70% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY have?
- IRS filings report 373 organizations giving $95,567,971 in grants to AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY, 236 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY?
- Servant Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $36,219,556 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 373 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing