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APOLOGETICS RESOURCES CENTER INC

APOLOGETICS RESOURCES CENTER INC (Alabama) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $45,416 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($31,700). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 89% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$104k
Funders on record
4
Grants received
$45k
Net assets
$9k
3/4 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 6%
01What it does

What Apologetics Resources Center Inc does

Mission

Communicating the gospel of the lord jesus christ through teaching and distribution of theological resources.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Conducting a ministry of research, writing, speaking, counseling, and equipping dedicated to providing answers to questions, objections, and attacks on the christian faith for both evangelism and discipleship in the church.

    $114,759 spent
    100% of program spending
  2. Sale of books dedicated to providing answers to questions, objections, and attacks on christian faith for both evangelism and discipleship in the church.

The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $114,759.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($189k) Expenses 100 ($181k) Net assets 100 ($33k)2018 Revenue 89 ($168k) Expenses 91 ($165k) Net assets 108 ($35k)2019 Revenue 87 ($165k) Expenses 89 ($160k) Net assets 123 ($40k)2020 Revenue 85 ($161k) Expenses 79 ($143k) Net assets 170 ($56k)2021 Revenue 63 ($118k) Expenses 76 ($138k) Net assets 109 ($36k)2022 Revenue 67 ($127k) Expenses 71 ($128k) Net assets 106 ($35k)2023 Revenue 65 ($123k) Expenses 73 ($132k) Net assets 81 ($26k)2024 Revenue 55 ($104k) Expenses 67 ($121k) Net assets 29 ($9k)
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Revenue (55)Expenses (67)Net assets (29)Peer revenue range

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 $65k to $42k (−36%).

$41k
$44k
$44k
$65k
$42k
$37k
$31k
$15k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

98% of APOLOGETICS RESOURCES CENTER INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (100% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 15,288 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$8k
’17
$3k
’18
$5k
’19
$18k
’20
−$20k
’21
−$988
’22
−$8k
’23
−$17k
’24
1.5
months of
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.

Board chair

Jim Edwards

Chairman

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

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Listed87788777
Joined·+0+0+1+0+1+0+0
No longer listed·1000200
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $4k → $8k.

3 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 89% 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 APOLOGETICS RESOURCES CENTER INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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

APOLOGETICS RESOURCES CENTER INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 70% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

89% 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 APOLOGETICS RESOURCES CENTER INC.

70%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 82% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.

“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.

Where its funders are

89% of APOLOGETICS RESOURCES CENTER INC'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 $5k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Alabama funders.

AL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’19
Alabama out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $40k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

APOLOGETICS RESOURCES CENTER INC's revenue fell 45% between 2017 and 2024.

Operating margin−16% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve1.5mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−8% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,816 religion nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Organizations like APOLOGETICS RESOURCES CENTER INC

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

95% of spending goes to programs.

Program 95%Management 5%Fundraising 0%

Governance

7
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy✓Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

AL

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Questions and answers

Who funds APOLOGETICS RESOURCES CENTER INC?
APOLOGETICS RESOURCES CENTER INC (Alabama) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $45,416 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($31,700). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 89% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does APOLOGETICS RESOURCES CENTER INC have?
IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $45,416 in grants to APOLOGETICS RESOURCES CENTER INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of APOLOGETICS RESOURCES CENTER INC?
NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC is the largest funder on record, with $31,700 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like APOLOGETICS RESOURCES CENTER INC find more funders?
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 4 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing