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EMMAUS INSTITUTE FOR BIBLICAL STUDIES

EMMAUS INSTITUTE FOR BIBLICAL STUDIES (Nebraska) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $186,954 to it, the largest being VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ($81,700). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 77% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$455k
Funders on record
3
Grants received
$187k
Net assets
$70k
3/3 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 83%
01What it does

What Emmaus Institute for Biblical Studies does

Mission

The emmaus institute exists to lead god's people to deeper conversion through a life-giving encounter with god in his word.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. The organization provides adult education focused on the reading and study of the bible to all christians, both catholic and non-catholic. Teaching includes in-person and online classes, seminars, retreats, training, and presentations at parishes, catholic schools, and other locations throughout the lincoln diocese and beyond. The signature program is a 3-year certificate program covering the entire bible. Students who have completed the program testify to its faith-building, life-transforming, and worship- inspiring impact.

    $340,153 spent$156,543 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $340,153.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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.

100 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($249k) Expenses 100 ($260k) Net assets 100 ($7k)2021 Revenue 29 ($72k) Expenses 43 ($113k) Net assets 81 ($6k)2022 Revenue 127 ($317k) Expenses 95 ($247k) Net assets 1083 ($75k)2023 Revenue 119 ($296k) Expenses 118 ($307k) Net assets 936 ($65k)2024 Revenue 158 ($394k) Expenses 145 ($379k) Net assets 1150 ($80k)2025 Revenue 183 ($455k) Expenses 179 ($466k) Net assets 1001 ($70k)
202020212022202320242025
Revenue (183)Expenses (179)Net assets (1001)Peer revenue range

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 $9k to $85k (+825%).

$50k
$9k
$85k
$73k
$84k
$71k
202020212022202320242025
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2022 12%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

65% of EMMAUS INSTITUTE FOR BIBLICAL STUDIES’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 15,288 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

−$11k
’20
−$41k
’21
$70k
’22
−$10k
’23
$15k
’24
−$10k
’25
1.4
months of
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.

202020212022202320242025
Listed7789810
Joined·+2+1+3+3+4
No longer listed·20242
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $5k → $28k.

Funder
'20
'21
'22
'23
'24*
'25*
total
funders
1
2
3
3
2
1

2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 77% 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 EMMAUS INSTITUTE FOR BIBLICAL STUDIES’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

EMMAUS INSTITUTE FOR BIBLICAL STUDIES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 44% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

77% 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 EMMAUS INSTITUTE FOR BIBLICAL STUDIES.

44%
largest funder
100%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 67% · 2022 50% · 2023 43% — 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

77% of EMMAUS INSTITUTE FOR BIBLICAL STUDIES'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 $43k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Nebraska funders.

NE

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’20
’22
’23
Nebraska out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $144k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

EMMAUS INSTITUTE FOR BIBLICAL STUDIES has grown faster than half of the 7,334 religion nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−2% · below the median
Months of reserve1.4mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)13% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,334 religion nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like EMMAUS INSTITUTE FOR BIBLICAL STUDIES

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 Nebraska

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

73% of spending goes to programs.

Program 73%Management 18%Fundraising 9%

Governance

9
board members
56%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

79%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds EMMAUS INSTITUTE FOR BIBLICAL STUDIES?
EMMAUS INSTITUTE FOR BIBLICAL STUDIES (Nebraska) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $186,954 to it, the largest being VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ($81,700). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 77% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does EMMAUS INSTITUTE FOR BIBLICAL STUDIES have?
IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $186,954 in grants to EMMAUS INSTITUTE FOR BIBLICAL STUDIES, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of EMMAUS INSTITUTE FOR BIBLICAL STUDIES?
VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM is the largest funder on record, with $81,700 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like EMMAUS INSTITUTE FOR BIBLICAL STUDIES find more funders?
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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 2020–2025), and the filings of 3 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