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ATHENS INSTITUTE OF MINISTRY INC

ATHENS INSTITUTE OF MINISTRY INC (Georgia) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $5,000 to it, the largest being Return To The Bible Foundation Inc ($5,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$12k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$5k
Net assets
$21k
0/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 44%
01What it does

What Athens Institute of Ministry Inc does

Mission

The organization conducts several programs of study, including a two-year certificate program, a distance-learning program, and other programs to promote biblical education for ministers of the gospel and interested laypersons.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. The organization fulfilled its mission to promote biblical education to many students, domestically and internationally by conducting its study programs as described in its exempt purpose statement.

    $6,878 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $6,878.

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 ($17k) Expenses 100 ($16k) Net assets 100 ($22k)2018 Revenue 95 ($16k) Expenses 108 ($17k) Net assets 96 ($21k)2019 Revenue 67 ($11k) Expenses 56 ($9k) Net assets 108 ($24k)2020 Revenue 81 ($14k) Expenses 69 ($11k) Net assets 31 ($7k)2021 Revenue 157 ($27k) Expenses 81 ($13k) Net assets 94 ($21k)2022 Revenue 147 ($25k) Expenses 175 ($27k) Net assets 84 ($19k)2023 Revenue 116 ($20k) Expenses 156 ($24k) Net assets 63 ($14k)2024 Revenue 107 ($18k) Expenses 102 ($16k) Net assets 74 ($16k)2025 Revenue 71 ($12k) Expenses 50 ($8k) Net assets 93 ($21k)
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Revenue (71)Expenses (50)Net assets (93)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $24k to $7k (−71%).

$22k
$21k
$24k
$7k
$21k
$19k
$14k
$16k
$21k
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Total assets

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
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

61% of ATHENS INSTITUTE OF MINISTRY INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 14,623 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$1k
’17
−$804
’18
$3k
’19
$3k
’20
$14k
’21
−$2k
’22
−$5k
’23
$2k
’24
$4k
’25
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'19
total
funders
1

From the IRS filings of ATHENS INSTITUTE OF MINISTRY 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.

Where its funders are

ATHENS INSTITUTE OF MINISTRY INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Georgia, across 1 state in all.

FL

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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

ATHENS INSTITUTE OF MINISTRY INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 6,869 religion nonprofits its size.

Operating margin35% · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−4% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,869 religion nonprofits under $100k, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

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

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 ATHENS INSTITUTE OF MINISTRY INC?
ATHENS INSTITUTE OF MINISTRY INC (Georgia) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $5,000 to it, the largest being Return To The Bible Foundation Inc ($5,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does ATHENS INSTITUTE OF MINISTRY INC have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $5,000 in grants to ATHENS INSTITUTE OF MINISTRY INC.
Who is the largest funder of ATHENS INSTITUTE OF MINISTRY INC?
Return To The Bible Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $5,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like ATHENS INSTITUTE OF MINISTRY INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Georgia. 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 1 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