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BIBLE STUDY MEDIA INC

BIBLE STUDY MEDIA INC (Florida) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $625,050 to it, the largest being THE WILLIAM STAMPS FARISH FUND ($300,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$66k
Funders on record
9
Grants received
$625k
Net assets
$96k
6/9 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 60%
01What it does

What Bible Study Media Inc does

Mission

The mission of Bible Study Media, Inc. is to foster a biblically-literate church worldwide through the production of engaging, faithful, and applicable Christian teaching resources for the Church and individuals.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.

Programs

  1. General Fund: The General Fund serves Bible Study Media Christian curriculum programs helping build Christian learning resources and bringing together a community of people and churches to provide access to Christian educational resources with the mission to end biblical illiteracy through aligning curriculum and community.

    $14,882 spentof which $25,659 as grants
    67% of program spending
  2. Other Program Services - Total 2024 Other grants received was $463 from the Children's Sunday School Curriculum and other gifts. Other expenses was $7,029 for Cross Walk, Draw near, Honest Prayer, Hope Peach Love Joy, and other projects.

    $7,029 spentof which $463 as grants
    31% of program spending
  3. The Bible Challenge is a Christian educational resource. It is a reading plan with study resources designed to help users read the Bible daily to read the entire Bible in a year. The Bible Challenge resources are used by individuals around the country.

    $314 spentof which $5 as grants
    1% of program spending
  4. Hearts Alive: This educational resource is a 3-year children's Sunday school curriculum for churches. As of 2024, over 15,000 participants representing more than 240 church congregations benefited from this program.

    $121 spentof which $20,026 as grants
    1% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $22,346.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($136k) Expenses 100 ($308k) Net assets 100 ($82k)2021 Revenue 253 ($345k) Expenses 90 ($278k) Net assets 182 ($149k)2022 Revenue 134 ($183k) Expenses 70 ($216k) Net assets 142 ($116k)2023 Revenue 62 ($84k) Expenses 35 ($108k) Net assets 100 ($82k)2024 Revenue 48 ($66k) Expenses 17 ($52k) Net assets 117 ($96k)
20202021202220232024
Revenue (48)Expenses (17)Net assets (117)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 2021 to 2022, from $268k to $183k (−32%).

$207k
$268k
$183k
$143k
$108k
20202021202220232024
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.

2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

70% of BIBLE STUDY MEDIA 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 5 reported years ran a deficit.

−$172k
’20
$67k
’21
−$33k
’22
−$24k
’23
$13k
’24
6.7
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.

2020202120222023
Listed9111111
Joined·+3+1+0
No longer listed·110
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 2 funders, grant income rose $50k → $50k.

4 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 15% 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 BIBLE STUDY MEDIA 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.

How concentrated its funding is

BIBLE STUDY MEDIA INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 48% of grant income and the top three 81%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

48%
largest funder
81%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 60% · 2018 36% · 2019 60% · 2020 100% · 2021 79% · 2022 83% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.

“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

57% of BIBLE STUDY MEDIA INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

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

BIBLE STUDY MEDIA INC draws 95% of its grant income from funders outside Florida, across 3 states in all.

IL
TX
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Florida out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $95k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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

BIBLE STUDY MEDIA INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 10,142 religion nonprofits its size.

Operating margin20% · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−17% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,142 religion nonprofits under $100k, FY2024

Organizations like BIBLE STUDY MEDIA INC

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05Profile & governance

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

Public support

89%

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds BIBLE STUDY MEDIA INC?
BIBLE STUDY MEDIA INC (Florida) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $625,050 to it, the largest being THE WILLIAM STAMPS FARISH FUND ($300,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does BIBLE STUDY MEDIA INC have?
IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $625,050 in grants to BIBLE STUDY MEDIA INC, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of BIBLE STUDY MEDIA INC?
THE WILLIAM STAMPS FARISH FUND is the largest funder on record, with $300,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like BIBLE STUDY MEDIA INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Florida. 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 2020–2024), and the filings of 9 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