Illinois · Nonprofit
BIBLE TRUTH PUBLISHERS INC
BIBLE TRUTH PUBLISHERS INC (Illinois) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $108,313 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($60,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 72% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $833k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $108k
- Net assets
- $3.3M
What Bible Truth Publishers Inc does
Mission
The exempt purpose of the organization is to promote and propagate the religious beliefs of its adherents through the printing and dissemination of these beliefs by means of books, pamphlets, tracts, periodicals and electronic media.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
To promote and propagate the religious beliefs of its adherents. Over 5,000,000 items of literature in multiple languages were produced and distributed. We would estimate that over half of these items reached different individuals in over 25 languages and in over 50 countries. Distribution includes free bibles sent to chaplains and prisoners throughout the u.s. Prison and juvenile detention systems. God alone can measure the lasting "achievement" of spiritual benefit in the hearts of the receivers.
$810,245 spent$-72,685 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $810,245.
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.
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 $3.2M to $3.4M (+8%).
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 TRUTH PUBLISHERS INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 6 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2022: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose $12k → $41k.
3 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 72% 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 TRUTH PUBLISHERS 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 TRUTH PUBLISHERS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 55% of grant income and the top three 84%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
90% 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 TRUTH PUBLISHERS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 73% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 97% — 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.
Where its funders are
72% of BIBLE TRUTH PUBLISHERS INC'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 $31k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Illinois, across 2 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $78k 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.
Against its field
BIBLE TRUTH PUBLISHERS INC's revenue fell 46% between 2020 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like BIBLE TRUTH PUBLISHERS INC
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 Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
79%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BIBLE TRUTH PUBLISHERS INC: 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 TRUTH PUBLISHERS INC?
- BIBLE TRUTH PUBLISHERS INC (Illinois) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $108,313 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($60,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 72% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does BIBLE TRUTH PUBLISHERS INC have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $108,313 in grants to BIBLE TRUTH PUBLISHERS INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BIBLE TRUTH PUBLISHERS INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $60,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BIBLE TRUTH PUBLISHERS INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 5 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