South Carolina · Nonprofit
BLUE LETTER BIBLE
BLUE LETTER BIBLE (South Carolina) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $573,895 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($207,046). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 88% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $4.1M
- Funders on record
- 27
- Grants received
- $574k
- Net assets
- $2.8M
What Blue Letter Bible does
Mission
The specific purpose of this corporation is to present a biblical, christian ministry of the gospel, hope, encouragement and strength to as many people as possible. The intent of those who will conduct this corporation's work is to present the person of the lord jesus christ, as revealed in the bible god's inerrant written word, and the holy spirit, as the only true source and means of forgiveness of sin, freedom from guilt, eternal life, and realization and fulfillment of all of men's and women's basic needs and desires.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Blue Letter Bible (blb) provides powerful tools for an in depth study of god's word through our free online reference library, with study tools that are grounded in the historical, conservative christian faith. There are approximately 20 million unique visitors per year. The Blue Letter Bible website is an online reference system which provides, free of charge to anyone visiting its website, 19 versions of the holy bible, cross references from the bible to the original hebrew and greek translations of the scriptures, study helps and commentaries from pastors of evangelical christian churches who agree to make their commentaries available free of charge for use with the Blue Letter Bible. The design of the Blue Letter Bible website is intended to be used by pastors, teachers, missionaries and the member of churches all over the world to spread the gospel of jesus christ through their study of the scriptures, and to enable people everywhere to learn to live according to the scriptures. The Blue Letter Bible institute website (study, bible) offers, free of charge, a complete course of study on the belief's and teachings of christianity, which have been provided from pastors and…
$3,222,170 spent$28,054 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $3,222,170.
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.
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 $2.6M to $3.4M (+30%).
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 6% · 2022 13%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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.
Chief executive
James Milligan
President & CEO
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $8k → $91k.
9 of 27 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 88% 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: $4.9M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Sowing Circle). These are real filings, and they are not money BLUE LETTER BIBLE raised.
From the IRS filings of BLUE LETTER BIBLE’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
BLUE LETTER BIBLE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 36% 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
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 BLUE LETTER BIBLE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 69% · 2018 57% · 2019 43% · 2020 49% · 2021 34% · 2022 42% · 2023 33% — 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
44% of BLUE LETTER BIBLE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 48% 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
88% of BLUE LETTER BIBLE'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 $71k that is directly attributable, 86% of it comes from funders outside South Carolina, across 12 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $503k arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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.
Organizations like BLUE LETTER BIBLE
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 South Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
93%
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 BLUE LETTER BIBLE: 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 BLUE LETTER BIBLE?
- BLUE LETTER BIBLE (South Carolina) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $573,895 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($207,046). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 88% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does BLUE LETTER BIBLE have?
- IRS filings report 27 organizations giving $573,895 in grants to BLUE LETTER BIBLE, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BLUE LETTER BIBLE?
- NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC is the largest funder on record, with $207,046 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BLUE LETTER BIBLE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in South Carolina. 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 27 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