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BIBLE FAITH LUTHERAN MINISTRIES TO INDIA INC

BIBLE FAITH LUTHERAN MINISTRIES TO INDIA INC (Minnesota) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $2,500 to it, the largest being OSCAR AND KETURAH HAAB FOUNDATION ($2,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$108k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$3k
Net assets
$34k
0/1 repeat funders
01What it does

What Bible Faith Lutheran Ministries to India Inc does

Mission

To support religious and social ministry in india.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. A. The purpose of the bflmi is to support the bible faith lutheran church of india, a long standing, non-profit church organization headquartered in guntur, india. The bflc has approximately 40 church congregations, a seminary and pastoral training program, a children's home and a school. The bflmi provides nearly all of the funds for the 40 congregations, including the financial support and housing of 40 pastors and their families. The bflmi fully funds the seminary and pastoral training program. The bflmi also fully funds the moriah children's home which provides housing, education, food and support for children from destitute families. The bflmi largely subsidizes the moriah school which has about 200 students ranging from pre-kindergarten to 10th grade (the final high school grade in india). Students pay tuition on a need-based, sliding fee scale basis. The bflmi is also assisting in organizing and funding a translation project by which the lutheran study bible notes will be translated into major language in india.

    $113,445 spentof which $98,804 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $113,445.

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 ($71k) Expenses 100 ($33k) Net assets 100 ($77k)2018 Revenue 90 ($64k) Expenses 361 ($120k) Net assets 26 ($20k)2019 Revenue 125 ($89k) Expenses 299 ($99k) Net assets 13 ($10k)2020 Revenue 163 ($116k) Expenses 309 ($103k) Net assets 29 ($22k)2021 Revenue 281 ($199k) Expenses 508 ($169k) Net assets 81 ($62k)2022 Revenue 215 ($152k) Expenses 330 ($110k) Net assets 136 ($104k)2023 Revenue 206 ($146k) Expenses 471 ($157k) Net assets 122 ($94k)2024 Revenue 153 ($108k) Expenses 355 ($118k) Net assets 44 ($34k)
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Revenue (153)Expenses (355)Net assets (44)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 2023 to 2024, from $94k to $34k (−64%).

$77k
$20k
$10k
$22k
$62k
$104k
$94k
$34k
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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.

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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of BIBLE FAITH LUTHERAN MINISTRIES TO INDIA INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations 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. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$38k
’17
−$56k
’18
−$11k
’19
$13k
’20
$30k
’21
$42k
’22
−$11k
’23
−$10k
’24
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

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

Funder
'24*
total
funders
1

From the IRS filings of BIBLE FAITH LUTHERAN MINISTRIES TO INDIA 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

BIBLE FAITH LUTHERAN MINISTRIES TO INDIA INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Minnesota, across 1 state in all.

MI

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

BIBLE FAITH LUTHERAN MINISTRIES TO INDIA INC's revenue grew 53% between 2017 and 2024.

Operating margin−9% · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)6% · below the median

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

Organizations like BIBLE FAITH LUTHERAN MINISTRIES TO INDIA INC

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05Profile & governance

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

Public support

58%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MN

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Questions and answers

Who funds BIBLE FAITH LUTHERAN MINISTRIES TO INDIA INC?
BIBLE FAITH LUTHERAN MINISTRIES TO INDIA INC (Minnesota) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $2,500 to it, the largest being OSCAR AND KETURAH HAAB FOUNDATION ($2,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does BIBLE FAITH LUTHERAN MINISTRIES TO INDIA INC have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $2,500 in grants to BIBLE FAITH LUTHERAN MINISTRIES TO INDIA INC.
Who is the largest funder of BIBLE FAITH LUTHERAN MINISTRIES TO INDIA INC?
OSCAR AND KETURAH HAAB FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like BIBLE FAITH LUTHERAN MINISTRIES TO INDIA INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), 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