West Virginia · Nonprofit
APPALACHIAN BIBLE COLLEGE INC
APPALACHIAN BIBLE COLLEGE INC (West Virginia) receives grants from 30 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,311,630 to it, the largest being WORD OF LIFE FOUNDATION INC ($1,597,600). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 71% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $9.2M
- Funders on record
- 30
- Grants received
- $4.3M
- Net assets
- $10M
What Appalachian Bible College Inc does
Mission
Serving the chrisitan community in the strengthening of local churches, promoting responsible christian character and maturity through educational programs, and preparing graduates for vocational and volunteer church-related service.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The vision of appalachian bible college is to be a quality fundamental ministry of biblical higher education by training students through a truth-driven curriculum and transformative co-curriculum that prepares christlike servants who are skilled in interpreting, obeying, and proclaiming god's word for the global spread of the gospel of the lord jesus christ and the strengthening of his church. As a regionally & nationally accredited, private, not-for-profit college with approximately 50 full-time staff and faculty serving about 250 students, the college grants master of arts, bachelor of arts and associate of arts degrees with majors focusing on bible & theology and other vocational ministries.
$4,516,732 spentof which $2,227,196 as grants$3,596,020 earned by the program65% of program spendingWhile the college provides a variety of avenues and locations for learning, the majority of its students train on the main mount hope campus as resident students. The college's auxiliary enterprises includes campus housing for single students in its 3 main residence halls as well as 14 duplexes for married students. Other enterprises include full dining services for students and an on-campus coffee shop. This college residential experience provides opportunities for great impact in the community as students attend and serve in a number of local churches and in other places such as nursing homes, hospice care, and programs for youth.
$1,246,317 spent$1,481,041 earned by the program18% of program spendingThe college's extension ministries seeks to edify the church through christ-centered ministries, which challenge people through god's word to wholly follow christ. These ministries provide year-round opportunities for churches, youth groups, families, and individuals to participate in wholesome, spiritually engaging activities through residential camps, retreats, and adventure activities to all age groups, serving about 5,000 guests annually.
$1,199,859 spent$973,638 earned by the program17% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $6,962,908.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $15M to $12M (−19%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 0% · 2018 0% · 2019 0% · 2020 7% · 2021 21% · 2022 14% · 2023 3% · 2024 13% · 2025 12%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Board chair
G Lane Ellis
Board chair/ director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 13 funders, grant income rose $372k → $583k.
9 of 30 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 71% 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 APPALACHIAN BIBLE COLLEGE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 29 of 30 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
APPALACHIAN BIBLE COLLEGE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 37% of grant income and the top three 72%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
78% 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 APPALACHIAN BIBLE COLLEGE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 70% · 2018 73% · 2019 57% · 2020 32% · 2021 42% · 2022 32% · 2023 39% — 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
40% of APPALACHIAN BIBLE COLLEGE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% 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
71% of APPALACHIAN BIBLE COLLEGE 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 $1.3M that is directly attributable, 64% of it comes from funders outside West Virginia, across 11 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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.
Government funding APPALACHIAN BIBLE COLLEGE INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.6M on record.
- Department of Education$1.6M
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like APPALACHIAN BIBLE COLLEGE INC
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 West Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
87%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Appalachian Bible Fellowship Inc · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds APPALACHIAN BIBLE COLLEGE INC?
- APPALACHIAN BIBLE COLLEGE INC (West Virginia) receives grants from 30 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,311,630 to it, the largest being WORD OF LIFE FOUNDATION INC ($1,597,600). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 71% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does APPALACHIAN BIBLE COLLEGE INC have?
- IRS filings report 30 organizations giving $4,311,630 in grants to APPALACHIAN BIBLE COLLEGE INC, 17 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of APPALACHIAN BIBLE COLLEGE INC?
- WORD OF LIFE FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,597,600 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like APPALACHIAN BIBLE COLLEGE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in West Virginia. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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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 30 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