North Carolina · Nonprofit
PILGRIM TRACT SOCIETY INC
PILGRIM TRACT SOCIETY INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,157,279 to it, the largest being THE WARD OAKS FOUNDATION INC ($1,028,500). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $518k
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $1.2M
- Net assets
- $421k
What Pilgrim Tract Society Inc does
Mission
To print the Gospel of Jesus Christ and spread worldwide the Word of God through the means of the printed page, printing Gospel Tracts and pamphlets in many languages and shipping worldwide to churches, Christian workers, missionaries around the world. Shipping Bibles, Christian books and literature worldwide to aid the education and Christian growth spiritually of Christians all around the world. To spread the glorious Gospel of Jesus Christ around the world through the means of the printed page.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
This amount represents the cost of printing approximately 40 to 60 million Gospel Tracts, pamphlets, and shipping them to countries all over the world to provide churches, ministries, evangelists, and Christians around the world with literature for training, spiritual growth, and for the advancement and spreading of the Word of God worldwide through the means of the printed page. Millions and millions of people around the world have benefited from using these materials to further their education and learning. These Tracts and pamphlets will benefit many people for many years to come as they are read and reread and passed around to others to read.
$367,362 spent91% of program spendingThis amount represents what we used to purchase Bibles, New Testaments, Christian literature to distribute, and ship out freely for free distribution by churches, ministries, and Christian workers around the world for the training, education, and spiritual growth of Christian workers, Pastors, and new converts around the world. Countless numbers of people around the world will benefit from these Bibles for many years.
$11,417 spent3% of program spendingThis amount represents what we paid to have our tracts, pamphlets, translated, printed, and distributed in India, Myanmar (Burma), Pakistan, Haiti, and Liberia, and for ongoing missionary work in those countries. Countless numbers of Christian workers and churches have received benefit from our Gospel Literature as a result of our efforts in these countries overseas.
$26,776 spent7% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $405,555.
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.
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 $705k to $769k (+9%).
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.
0% of PILGRIM TRACT SOCIETY INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 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
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $50k → $223k.
5 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 7% 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 PILGRIM TRACT SOCIETY INC’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
PILGRIM TRACT SOCIETY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 89% of grant income and the top three 95%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
96% 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 PILGRIM TRACT SOCIETY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 80% · 2018 83% · 2019 100% · 2020 48% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 90% — 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
43% of PILGRIM TRACT SOCIETY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% 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
PILGRIM TRACT SOCIETY INC draws 98% of its grant income from funders outside North Carolina, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $86k 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.
Against its field
PILGRIM TRACT SOCIETY INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 12,816 religion nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,816 religion nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like PILGRIM TRACT SOCIETY INC
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 North Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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 PILGRIM TRACT SOCIETY INC?
- PILGRIM TRACT SOCIETY INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,157,279 to it, the largest being THE WARD OAKS FOUNDATION INC ($1,028,500). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PILGRIM TRACT SOCIETY INC have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $1,157,279 in grants to PILGRIM TRACT SOCIETY INC, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PILGRIM TRACT SOCIETY INC?
- THE WARD OAKS FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,028,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PILGRIM TRACT SOCIETY INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North 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 2020–2024), and the filings of 9 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