Georgia · Nonprofit
BIBLICAL HISTORY CENTER INC
BIBLICAL HISTORY CENTER INC (Georgia) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $501,525 to it, the largest being THE LUZERNE FOUNDATION ($200,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 83% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $878k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $502k
- Net assets
- $4.4M
What Biblical History Center Inc does
Mission
Biblical history center, inc. Is an interfaith museum of daily life in antiquity committed to making history come alive through meaningful interaction of its vistors with full-scale archaeological reconstructions of discoveries from the ancient world.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Archeological garden tours are an interactive walk through an archological garden where full-scale replicas of structures relevant to daily life in biblical times bring history to life. The center has two biblical meal rooms; (1) the "jerusalem biblical meal room" is a copy of the one discovered at pompeii; (2) the "mount zion biblical meal room" is a copy of one discovered at herculaneum. Each room serves a four-course meal consisting of 15 different food items, including soup, salad, main course, dessert, and all beverages. To experience the ancient world in a personal way, the center offers hands on opportunities of making bread like the shepherds in the desert have for thousands of years. The center also has four archeological pits for kids to learn the purpose of archeology. Three pits are based on real-life archeological excavations from different periods of time and one pit is dedicated to the youngest archeologist and is filled with "dinosaur remains and fossils".
$597,116 spent$574,776 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $597,116.
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 2018 to 2019, from $3.4M to $4.3M (+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 29% · 2023 12%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
23% of BIBLICAL HISTORY CENTER INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue 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. 2 of the last 8 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
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 4 funders to 3 funders, grant income fell $218k → $27k.
5 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 83% 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 BIBLICAL HISTORY CENTER 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
BIBLICAL HISTORY CENTER INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 78%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
83% 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 BIBLICAL HISTORY CENTER INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 92% · 2018 57% · 2019 71% · 2020 97% · 2021 98% · 2022 81% · 2023 81% — 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.
How long its funders stay
40% of BIBLICAL HISTORY CENTER INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
83% of BIBLICAL HISTORY CENTER 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 $86k that is directly attributable, 99% of it comes from Georgia funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $415k 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.
Against its field
BIBLICAL HISTORY CENTER INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like BIBLICAL HISTORY CENTER INC
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In Georgia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
94%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BIBLICAL HISTORY CENTER INC?
- BIBLICAL HISTORY CENTER INC (Georgia) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $501,525 to it, the largest being THE LUZERNE FOUNDATION ($200,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 83% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does BIBLICAL HISTORY CENTER INC have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $501,525 in grants to BIBLICAL HISTORY CENTER INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BIBLICAL HISTORY CENTER INC?
- THE LUZERNE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $200,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BIBLICAL HISTORY CENTER INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Georgia. 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 8 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