Minnesota · Nonprofit
LIVING WORD BIBLE CAMP
LIVING WORD BIBLE CAMP (Minnesota) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $239,451 to it, the largest being THE NELSON FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($130,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $610k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $239k
- Net assets
- $6.3M
What Living Word Bible Camp does
Mission
To present the Gospel of Jesus Christ and Christ-centered principles of living to children, young people, and adults while providing a meaningful camp experience in a beautiful setting, reflective of God's beauty and goodness to us.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
We provided 30 days of christian summer camp for 582 children in grades 3 - 8. Work, marraige and family retreats are provided for all ages. There were 11 days of retreats, attended by 538 people during the year.
$491,384 spent$159,557 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $491,384.
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 2023 to 2024, from $6.3M to $6.6M (+4%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $50k → $156.
4 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 45% 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 LIVING WORD BIBLE CAMP’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 6 of 7 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
LIVING WORD BIBLE CAMP leans on a few funders — its largest provides 54% of grant income and the top three 94%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
45% 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 LIVING WORD BIBLE CAMP.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 77% · 2022 41% · 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
LIVING WORD BIBLE CAMP draws 98% of its grant income from funders outside Minnesota, across 2 states in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $107k 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.
Organizations like LIVING WORD BIBLE CAMP
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 Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
73% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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 LIVING WORD BIBLE CAMP: 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 LIVING WORD BIBLE CAMP?
- LIVING WORD BIBLE CAMP (Minnesota) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $239,451 to it, the largest being THE NELSON FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($130,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LIVING WORD BIBLE CAMP have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $239,451 in grants to LIVING WORD BIBLE CAMP, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LIVING WORD BIBLE CAMP?
- THE NELSON FAMILY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $130,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LIVING WORD BIBLE CAMP find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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 7 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