Texas · Nonprofit
RIO GRANDE BIBLE INSTITUTE INC
RIO GRANDE BIBLE INSTITUTE INC (Texas) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $850,249 to it, the largest being SAMARITAN'S PURSE ($250,000). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $5.4M
- Funders on record
- 18
- Grants received
- $850k
- Net assets
- $17M
What Rio Grande Bible Institute Inc does
Mission
To glorify god by serving the hispanic church through equipping leaders, edifying leaders, and evangelizing the lost.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The rio grande bible college exists to develop christ-centered leaders with a biblical worldview for the global church. We provide an affordable accredited undergraduate and graduate bible degree program for spanish-speaking students. The program costs are significantly reduced and rely greatly on generous donations and donated labor from our staff, volunteers, and donors. Our intercultural studies program is for english-speaking students desiring to learn spanish. We have been privileged to teach appointees from 50 different missionary organizations. They are saturated with the grammar, phonetics, conversation, and culture through classwork, interaction, and private tutoring by our spanish-speaking bible college students. For more information please visit, www.riogrande.edu.
$2,849,737 spentof which $226,476 as grants$1,171,267 earned by the program73% of program spendingRadio esperanza: with over 100,000 daily listeners in south texas and northern mexico, radio esperanza has become one of the local favorites. This exciting am and fm ministry (krio 910 am, koir 88.5 fm, krio-fm 97.7, and keso 92.7) beams the gospel in spanish into areas where missionaries or pastors may never be able to go. Radio personnel serve the spanish-speaking community through a variety of music and talk programs. The priorities of radio esperanza are: 1) to serve the spiritual and family needs of our listeners through the teaching of the word of god. 2) emphasize prayer and minister with music to the lives of our listeners. 3) provide to our audience information regarding community events that may assist them in their daily needs. It can be accessed online at www.radioesperanza.com.
$646,639 spent17% of program spendingBibleville is a non-denominational bible conference center near alamo, texas, where "winter texans" share their faith and participate in varied activities from november through april. A spacious 800-seat auditorium, palm-lined streets, christian neighbors, and mission-centered activities make bibleville an attractive and desirable place to spend the winter or the whole year. Our main emphasis is to minister to winter texans and be part of the missionary work of rio grande bible ministries. Our activities include bible studies, crafts, dinners, and fellowship times. The conference grounds is a fully developed christian ministry center with nearly 100 hook-up spaces and 180 leased lots for mobile homes to house more than 500 senior citizens.
$398,836 spent$217,280 earned by the program10% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,895,212.
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 2019 to 2020, from $8.9M to $12M (+33%).
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 6% · 2021 9% · 2025 14%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
69% of RIO GRANDE BIBLE INSTITUTE INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% 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.
Board chair
Marty Von
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 8 funders, grant income fell $67k → $60k.
8 of 18 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 47% 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 RIO GRANDE BIBLE INSTITUTE 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
RIO GRANDE BIBLE INSTITUTE INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 29% 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
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 RIO GRANDE BIBLE INSTITUTE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 60% · 2018 38% · 2019 28% · 2020 51% · 2021 27% · 2022 30% · 2023 26% — 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.
How long its funders stay
54% of RIO GRANDE BIBLE INSTITUTE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% 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
RIO GRANDE BIBLE INSTITUTE INC draws 83% of its grant income from funders outside Texas, across 6 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $403k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
RIO GRANDE BIBLE INSTITUTE INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like RIO GRANDE BIBLE INSTITUTE 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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
92%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds RIO GRANDE BIBLE INSTITUTE INC?
- RIO GRANDE BIBLE INSTITUTE INC (Texas) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $850,249 to it, the largest being SAMARITAN'S PURSE ($250,000). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does RIO GRANDE BIBLE INSTITUTE INC have?
- IRS filings report 18 organizations giving $850,249 in grants to RIO GRANDE BIBLE INSTITUTE INC, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of RIO GRANDE BIBLE INSTITUTE INC?
- SAMARITAN'S PURSE is the largest funder on record, with $250,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like RIO GRANDE BIBLE INSTITUTE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 18 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