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ASSOCIATION OF BIBLICAL COUNSELORS

ASSOCIATION OF BIBLICAL COUNSELORS (Texas) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $62,202 to it, the largest being COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF TEXAS INC ($32,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 84% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$540k
Funders on record
4
Grants received
$62k
Net assets
$393k
2/4 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 3%
01What it does

What Association of Biblical Counselors does

Mission

ABC exists to encourage, equip, and empower people everywhere to live and counsel the Word, applying the Gospel to the whole experience of life.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Certification Fees - Provide three different levels of online certification in biblical counseling to equip individuals with the necessary tools to effectively counsel The Word.

    $136,220 spent
    40% of program spending

  2. Online Sales - Online sale of books, CDs and DVDs pertaining to information to encourage, equip, and empower people everywhere to live and counsel the word.

    $126,068 spent
    37% of program spending

  3. Newsletter - Weekly Counseling Newsletter, and Bi-Monthly E-Journals to provide a fellowship of believers committed to life transformation through the Living Word.

    $29,319 spent
    9% of program spending

  4. Website Resources - Provide Video & Audio Clips and literature on Website to provide excellent materials for growth in Christ and for use in effective Biblical counseling. We have 100 Resources available to members free of charge.

    $26,273 spent
    8% of program spending

  5. Church Partnerships - In exchange for a monthly contribution, the organization will visit the church and speak on various topics regarding biblical counseling as requested. Other programs are also offered at a discounted rate to these churches.

    $19,570 spent
    6% of program spending

  6. United in Christ - The Be United in Christ Outreach Ministry is a Bible-based ministry whose mission is to teach and promote Christian Unity in accordance with God's Word.

    $5,828 spent
    2% of program spending

  7. Pastoral Care - Biblical counseling to pastors and their families.

    $50 spent
    0% of program spending

The 7 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $343,328.

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 ($707k) Expenses 100 ($736k) Net assets 100 ($98k)2018 Revenue 119 ($844k) Expenses 113 ($831k) Net assets 113 ($111k)2019 Revenue 99 ($700k) Expenses 95 ($700k) Net assets 113 ($111k)2020 Revenue 85 ($598k) Expenses 84 ($617k) Net assets 94 ($92k)2021 Revenue 40 ($279k) Expenses 35 ($256k) Net assets 118 ($116k)2022 Revenue 51 ($359k) Expenses 41 ($301k) Net assets 178 ($174k)2023 Revenue 83 ($586k) Expenses 58 ($425k) Net assets 342 ($335k)2024 Revenue 76 ($540k) Expenses 66 ($483k) Net assets 401 ($393k)
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Revenue (76)Expenses (66)Net assets (401)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 2022 to 2023, from $179k to $348k (+94%).

$105k
$119k
$112k
$93k
$117k
$179k
$348k
$424k
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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

4% of ASSOCIATION OF BIBLICAL COUNSELORS’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (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. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$29k
’17
$13k
’18
−$464
’19
−$19k
’20
$24k
’21
$58k
’22
$161k
’23
$58k
’24
9.2
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.

'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24
Listed108555555
Joined·+0+0+0+0+0+0+0
No longer listed·2300000
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $20k → $20k.

Funder
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'20
'21
'22
'23
'24*
total
funders
1
1
1
2
2
1

3 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 84% 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 ASSOCIATION OF BIBLICAL COUNSELORS’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

ASSOCIATION OF BIBLICAL COUNSELORS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 51% 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

84% 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 ASSOCIATION OF BIBLICAL COUNSELORS.

51%
largest funder
100%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 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

84% of ASSOCIATION OF BIBLICAL COUNSELORS'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 $10k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Texas, across 1 state.

CA

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $52k 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

ASSOCIATION OF BIBLICAL COUNSELORS runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 12,816 religion nonprofits its size.

Operating margin11% · above the median
Months of reserve9.2mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−4% · bottom quartile

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

Organizations like ASSOCIATION OF BIBLICAL COUNSELORS

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 Texas

Associated Builders & Contractors Central Texas Chapter I77%Concho Valley Biblical Counseling Center76%International Alliance for Christian Education NFP75%Convention of Full Gospel Churches74%Ascending Leaders74%American Botanical Council74%Alliance of Border Collaboratives Inc74%Chaparral Baptist Assembly Inc73%

Nationally

Associated Black Charities Inc81%Associated Builders and Contractors Ohio Valley Chapter80%Associated Builders & Contractors of Louisiana Incorporated79%Assoc of Bus Admins of Christian Colleges79%Biblical Counseling and Training Ministries79%American Association of Birth Centers78%American Bird Conservancy78%Biblical Counseling Coalition Inc77%
05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

71% of spending goes to programs.

Program 71%Management 26%Fundraising 3%

Governance

5
board members
20%
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.

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Questions and answers

Who funds ASSOCIATION OF BIBLICAL COUNSELORS?
ASSOCIATION OF BIBLICAL COUNSELORS (Texas) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $62,202 to it, the largest being COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF TEXAS INC ($32,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 84% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does ASSOCIATION OF BIBLICAL COUNSELORS have?
IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $62,202 in grants to ASSOCIATION OF BIBLICAL COUNSELORS, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of ASSOCIATION OF BIBLICAL COUNSELORS?
COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF TEXAS INC is the largest funder on record, with $32,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like ASSOCIATION OF BIBLICAL COUNSELORS find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 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