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INDEPENDENT CHILDREN'S BIBLE MISSION

INDEPENDENT CHILDREN'S BIBLE MISSION (Michigan) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $18,600 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($18,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 99% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$62k
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$19k
Net assets
$9k
1/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 15%
01What it does

What Independent Children's Bible Mission does

Mission

Reaching children with the gospel

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Programs

  1. Vacation bible school & camps are week long programs that teach bible truths to children through bible stories. About 1500 children were taught. Expenses are shared in all programs.

    $46,759 spent
    95% of program spending
  2. Release time classes are like vbs except that they are held once a month. About 175 monthly attended.

  3. Awana bible truths are taught during the counsel time at the nationally known awana program. About 175 monthly.

  4. Program service expenses shared by all achievements.

    $2,646 spent
    5% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $49,405.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($64k) Expenses 100 ($64k) Net assets 100 ($1k)2018 Revenue 105 ($68k) Expenses 107 ($69k) Net assets 13 ($152)2019 Revenue 116 ($75k) Expenses 103 ($66k) Net assets 793 ($9k)2020 Revenue 82 ($52k) Expenses 89 ($57k) Net assets 429 ($5k)2021 Revenue 102 ($66k) Expenses 101 ($64k) Net assets 517 ($6k)2022 Revenue 92 ($59k) Expenses 97 ($62k) Net assets 274 ($3k)2023 Revenue 87 ($56k) Expenses 95 ($61k) Net assets -158 ($-1816)2024 Revenue 90 ($58k) Expenses 93 ($60k) Net assets -299 ($-3426)2025 Revenue 96 ($62k) Expenses 77 ($49k) Net assets 783 ($9k)
'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24'25
Revenue (96)Expenses (77)Net assets (783)

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 $5k to $31k (+528%).

$9k
$5k
$31k
$24k
$21k
$15k
$7k
$1k
$9k
'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24'25
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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$363
’17
−$994
’18
$9k
’19
−$4k
’20
$1k
’21
−$3k
’22
−$5k
’23
−$2k
’24
$12k
’25
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income rose $5k → $9k.

Funder
'17
'18
'23
total
funders
2
1
1

1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 99% 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 INDEPENDENT CHILDREN'S BIBLE MISSION’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

INDEPENDENT CHILDREN'S BIBLE MISSION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 99% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

99% 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 INDEPENDENT CHILDREN'S BIBLE MISSION.

99%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 98% · 2018 100% · 2023 100% — 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.

Where its funders are

99% of INDEPENDENT CHILDREN'S BIBLE MISSION'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 $100 that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Michigan funders.

MI

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $19k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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

Organizations like INDEPENDENT CHILDREN'S BIBLE MISSION

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 Michigan

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Public support

100%

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds INDEPENDENT CHILDREN'S BIBLE MISSION?
INDEPENDENT CHILDREN'S BIBLE MISSION (Michigan) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $18,600 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($18,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 99% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does INDEPENDENT CHILDREN'S BIBLE MISSION have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $18,600 in grants to INDEPENDENT CHILDREN'S BIBLE MISSION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of INDEPENDENT CHILDREN'S BIBLE MISSION?
NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC is the largest funder on record, with $18,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like INDEPENDENT CHILDREN'S BIBLE MISSION find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Michigan. 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 2 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