Texas · Nonprofit
BIBLE STUDY FELLOWSHIP
BIBLE STUDY FELLOWSHIP (Texas) receives grants from 240 organizations whose IRS filings report $17,168,639 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($3,552,875). 145 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 76% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $41M
- Funders on record
- 240
- Grants received
- $17M
- Net assets
- $15M
What Bible Study Fellowship does
Mission
Global, in-depth bible classes producing passionate commitment to christ, his word, and his church. Our vision is to magnify god and mature his people.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Bible Study Fellowship (bsf) and its affiliates currently operate 1,568 classes plus 9,339 satellite discussion groups where members meet weekly for in-depth bible study. These classes and groups meet in 71 different countries. In addition, bsf hosts 3,323 online discussion groups that allow class members in 188 different countries to participate in weekly small group discussions over their computer or connected devices. These online discussion groups have grown out of bsf's strategic investment in technology and digital options as they seek to reach people of all ages, races, countries, and cultures with in-depth bible study. The organization's mission is: global, in-depth bible classes producing passionate commitment to christ, his word, and his church. The vision is to magnify god and mature his people.
$29,489,882 spentof which $125,000 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $29,489,882.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $19M to $31M (+60%).
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.
99% of BIBLE STUDY FELLOWSHIP’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (84% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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.
Chief executive
Hollie Roberts
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 56 funders to 102 funders, grant income rose $909k → $2.8M.
48 of 240 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 76% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $12M from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Bsf Global Impact Corp). These are real filings, and they are not money BIBLE STUDY FELLOWSHIP raised.
From the IRS filings of BIBLE STUDY FELLOWSHIP’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 240 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
BIBLE STUDY FELLOWSHIP has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 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 BIBLE STUDY FELLOWSHIP.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 33% · 2018 22% · 2019 22% · 2020 21% · 2021 24% · 2022 21% · 2023 18% — 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
47% of BIBLE STUDY FELLOWSHIP's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% 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
76% of BIBLE STUDY FELLOWSHIP'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 $4.1M that is directly attributable, 87% of it comes from funders outside Texas, across 35 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $13M arriving through sponsors registered in 28 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.
Against its field
BIBLE STUDY FELLOWSHIP runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 127 religion nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 127 religion nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like BIBLE STUDY FELLOWSHIP
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
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 15 states
Part of a family of 5 related entities
- Bsf International LLC · exempt
- Bsf Global Impact Corp · exempt
- Bsf International Properties Corp · exempt
- Charitable Remainder Untrust (1) · corp_trust
- Ackerman Family Trust Co Palmer & Jones · corp_trust
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BIBLE STUDY FELLOWSHIP: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BIBLE STUDY FELLOWSHIP?
- BIBLE STUDY FELLOWSHIP (Texas) receives grants from 240 organizations whose IRS filings report $17,168,639 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($3,552,875). 145 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 76% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does BIBLE STUDY FELLOWSHIP have?
- IRS filings report 240 organizations giving $17,168,639 in grants to BIBLE STUDY FELLOWSHIP, 145 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BIBLE STUDY FELLOWSHIP?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $3,552,875 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BIBLE STUDY FELLOWSHIP 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.
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 240 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