Colorado · Nonprofit
Bibles For The World
Bibles For The World (Colorado) receives grants from 40 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,917,198 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($328,916). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 69% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.1M
- Funders on record
- 40
- Grants received
- $1.9M
- Net assets
- $3.6M
What Bibles For The World does
Mission
BFTW is a catalyst for individual and cultural transformation through Christ and the power of His Word! This means sharing the Good News of God's love in Christ Jesus by ministering to unreached peoples, to the Church and to Christian leaders in developing nations, with a strong emphasis on India. We do this in partnership with our donors and other ministry partners by: Strategically distributing Bibles, New Testaments, and other scripture portions,Raising up Godly, well educated children through our affiliated schools both in Northeast India and in Delhi;networking and encouraging Indian churches and national Christian leaders for greater effectiveness; and, equipping such leaders through the Trinity College and Seminary in Manipur and through our networks with other fine evangelical seminaries throughout India.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The Bible Distribution program service propagates the word of Jesus Christ through the printing and distribution of Bibles throughout the world.
$1,979,490 spentof which $255 as grants$29,823 earned by the program59% of program spendingPartnership Ministries supports and trains church and missionary workers, provides medical care, and provides an education for young people primarily in Northeast India.
$1,372,619 spentof which $811,871 as grants41% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,352,109.
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 2021 to 2022, from $3.5M to $4.4M (+25%).
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: 2021 4% · 2022 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
95% of Bibles For The World’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. 5 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
John Pudaite
President/CEO and Secretary
Board chair
Jeff Sorensen
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 19 funders, grant income rose $141k → $207k.
10 of 40 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 69% 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 The World’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 40 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
Bibles For The World has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 17% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
74% 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 The World.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 25% · 2018 36% · 2019 38% · 2020 38% · 2021 15% · 2022 20% · 2023 27% — 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
68% of Bibles For The World's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 68% 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
69% of Bibles For The World'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 $596k that is directly attributable, 93% of it comes from funders outside Colorado, across 17 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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 The World's revenue grew 61% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,325 religion nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like Bibles For The World
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 Colorado
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 10 states
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Partnership Mission Society · exempt
- Partnership Foundation Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Bibles For The World: 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 The World?
- Bibles For The World (Colorado) receives grants from 40 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,917,198 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($328,916). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 69% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Bibles For The World have?
- IRS filings report 40 organizations giving $1,917,198 in grants to Bibles For The World, 27 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Bibles For The World?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $328,916 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Bibles For The World find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Colorado. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 40 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