Colorado · Nonprofit
Community Bible Study
Community Bible Study (Colorado) receives grants from 120 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,636,851 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($1,335,803). 69 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 68% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $15M
- Funders on record
- 120
- Grants received
- $5.6M
- Net assets
- $18M
What Community Bible Study does
Mission
The mission of Community Bible Study (CBS) is to make disciples of the Lord Jesus Christ in our communities through caring, in-depth Bible study, available to all.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
U.S. Bible Study Classes: Write, edit, print, record (audio and video), teach, and distribute Bible study lesson materials for approximately 76,000 adults and over 22,000 children and teens in approximately 734 classes and groups throughout the United States.
$9,880,891 spent$2,802,760 earned by the program69% of program spendingInternational Entity Support: Provide Bible study lesson materials and leadership training to individuals in approximately 117 countries, which have been translated into 91 heart languages for conducting Bible study classes attended by over 1.1 million participants globally.
$3,949,589 spentof which $2,749,265 as grants28% of program spendingLeadership Conference/Training: Continue the Organization's value of leadership development and training by offering training for local class leadership and other leaders, both online and in-person, depending on location. This includes on-demand 'trainings for leaders around the world covering adult, student, children, and InPrison programs, as well as in-person trainings internationally. Additionally, an annual training conference is held for key North American leaders, along with annual leadership events for a broader group of organizational and local class leaders to provide support, encouragement, and community for class leaders and shepherds.
$408,855 spent3% of program spendingOther Programs: Engagement in several small, community-based ancillary programs.
$40,630 spentof which $40,630 as grants0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $14,279,965.
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 2020 to 2021, from $15M to $17M (+18%).
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 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
77% of Community Bible Study’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (84% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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
Helder Martines
CEO
Board chair
Deb Crowe
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 25 funders to 44 funders, grant income rose $246k → $1.1M.
26 of 120 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 68% 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 Community Bible Study’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 120 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
Community Bible Study has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 24% 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
73% 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 Community Bible Study.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 26% · 2018 28% · 2019 31% · 2020 32% · 2021 27% · 2022 26% · 2023 41% — growing more concentrated.
“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
37% of Community Bible Study's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% 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
68% of Community Bible Study'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 $1.8M that is directly attributable, 92% of it comes from funders outside Colorado, across 29 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.8M arriving through sponsors registered in 18 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
Community Bible Study holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 127 religion nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 127 religion nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like Community Bible Study
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
92% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 9 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Community Bible Study: 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 Community Bible Study?
- Community Bible Study (Colorado) receives grants from 120 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,636,851 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($1,335,803). 69 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 68% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Community Bible Study have?
- IRS filings report 120 organizations giving $5,636,851 in grants to Community Bible Study, 69 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Community Bible Study?
- NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,335,803 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Community Bible Study 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 120 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