California · Nonprofit
BIBLES FOR AMERICA INCORPORATED
BIBLES FOR AMERICA INCORPORATED (California) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,209,887 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,530,700). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 89% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.6M
- Funders on record
- 13
- Grants received
- $2.2M
- Net assets
- $2.0M
What Bibles for America Incorporated does
Mission
To give away free bibles and christian books throughout the united states, and to provide educational materials and support services related to the study of the bible.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Distribution program - distribute free new testament bibles and copies of free christian books to those who requested them within the united states.
$2,118,383 spent$19,730 earned by the program73% of program spendingBible study resources program - developed and published resources on our website and other channels to aid in studying the bible, including blog posts, podcast episodes, and videos.
$771,418 spent26% of program spendingBible recipient support program - provided follow-up contact and customer service to bible and book recipients via phone, text, email, and social media channels.
$30,695 spent1% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,920,496.
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 2022 to 2023, from $3.7M to $2.7M (−27%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2020 5% · 2021 0% · 2022 0% · 2023 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of BIBLES FOR AMERICA INCORPORATED’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (90% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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.
Board chair
Minoru Chen
Chairman and president
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 4 funders, grant income fell $63k → $62k.
8 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 89% 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: $48k from one payer (the payer's own filing calls it a related party, largest Amin Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money BIBLES FOR AMERICA INCORPORATED raised.
From the IRS filings of BIBLES FOR AMERICA INCORPORATED’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
BIBLES FOR AMERICA INCORPORATED leans on a few funders — its largest provides 69% of grant income and the top three 83%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
89% 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 BIBLES FOR AMERICA INCORPORATED.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 40% · 2018 55% · 2019 67% · 2020 39% · 2021 59% · 2022 33% · 2023 41% — broadly stable.
“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
45% of BIBLES FOR AMERICA INCORPORATED's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 69% 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
89% of BIBLES FOR AMERICA INCORPORATED'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 $245k that is directly attributable, 59% of it comes from funders outside California, across 3 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
BIBLES FOR AMERICA INCORPORATED receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $2.2M to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,325 religion nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like BIBLES FOR AMERICA INCORPORATED
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
74%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BIBLES FOR AMERICA INCORPORATED: 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 BIBLES FOR AMERICA INCORPORATED?
- BIBLES FOR AMERICA INCORPORATED (California) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,209,887 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,530,700). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 89% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does BIBLES FOR AMERICA INCORPORATED have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $2,209,887 in grants to BIBLES FOR AMERICA INCORPORATED, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BIBLES FOR AMERICA INCORPORATED?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $1,530,700 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BIBLES FOR AMERICA INCORPORATED find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 13 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