Michigan · Nonprofit
BIBLES FOR MISSIONS THRIFT CENTERS
BIBLES FOR MISSIONS THRIFT CENTERS (Michigan) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $200,779 to it, the largest being UNKNOWN NATIONS ($106,394). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $8.8M
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $201k
- Net assets
- $9.3M
What Bibles for Missions Thrift Centers does
Mission
To raise funds for strategically selected ministries that share the good news of jesus christ around the world.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The organization has a number of individual stores operating in several states in the usa. The organization has hundreds of individuals that donate their time to operate and manage the thrift stores. Donated items are accepted at each store and placed on the sales floor. Donated goods are sold at greatly reduced prices to the general public. Net proceeds are contributed to the bible league international, minnesota coalition for eastern europe, igo worldwide, world mission, living water, and bellevue baptist church-missions fund, and used to place new testaments and bibles through out the world. The bibles are placed in the countries chosen by each store. Through the efforts of hundreds of volunteers at Bibles for Missions Thrift Centers, millions of scriptures have been placed worldwide.
$8,006,512 spentof which $5,604,000 as grants$8,078,551 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $8,006,512.
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 2022 to 2023, from $9.7M to $11M (+10%).
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 1% · 2021 0% · 2022 0% · 2023 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
2% of BIBLES FOR MISSIONS THRIFT CENTERS’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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.
Board chair
Ken Jipping
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $9k → $45k.
3 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 47% 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 BIBLES FOR MISSIONS THRIFT CENTERS’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 MISSIONS THRIFT CENTERS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 53% of grant income and the top three 90%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 MISSIONS THRIFT CENTERS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 60% · 2022 50% · 2023 55% — 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.
Where its funders are
100% of BIBLES FOR MISSIONS THRIFT CENTERS's grant income comes from Michigan funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $94k 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
BIBLES FOR MISSIONS THRIFT CENTERS runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 6,891 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,891 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like BIBLES FOR MISSIONS THRIFT CENTERS
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 Michigan
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
98% 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 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BIBLES FOR MISSIONS THRIFT CENTERS: 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 MISSIONS THRIFT CENTERS?
- BIBLES FOR MISSIONS THRIFT CENTERS (Michigan) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $200,779 to it, the largest being UNKNOWN NATIONS ($106,394). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BIBLES FOR MISSIONS THRIFT CENTERS have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $200,779 in grants to BIBLES FOR MISSIONS THRIFT CENTERS, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BIBLES FOR MISSIONS THRIFT CENTERS?
- UNKNOWN NATIONS is the largest funder on record, with $106,394 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BIBLES FOR MISSIONS THRIFT CENTERS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Michigan. 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 4 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