Texas · Nonprofit
Summer Institute of Linguistics Inc dba SIL Global
Summer Institute of Linguistics Inc dba SIL Global (Texas) receives grants from 36 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,691,289 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($6,157,636). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 58% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $54M
- Funders on record
- 36
- Grants received
- $14M
- Net assets
- $86M
What Summer Institute of Linguistics Inc dba SIL Global does
Mission
SIL advocates, builds capacity, and works with local communities to apply language expertise that advances meaningful development, education, and engagement with Scripture. Continue on Schedule O
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Language Engagements - SIL works with over 1,500 communities worldwide (impacting more than 950 million people) as they build their capacity for sustainable development with their own languages. Program engagements include language development that involves ongoing planned actions that a language community takes to ensure that its language continues to serve its needs and goals. SIL's expertise includes training and consulting in linguistic analysis, orthography and writing systems development, literature development (including translation) and mother tongue-based multilingual education and literacy. SIL publishes Ethnologue, an authoritative resource on world languages, referencing more than 7,000 languages. Continue on Schedule O.
$17,218,425 spentof which $3,831,157 as grants$1,613,096 earned by the program38% of program spendingLogistics - SIL works with non-dominant language communities who may reside in remote locations. It is often necessary for SIL to provide services to its staff that are unavailable in the local economy, such as housing, schools for dependent children, communications services, transportation, health care and access to food and supplies.
$14,539,612 spentof which $9,754 as grants$7,595,137 earned by the program32% of program spendingLanguage Services - SIL has three primary areas of language services: training in language development and multilingual education, and materials development and publications. 1) Training in language development and multilingual education: In addition to working with communities at the local level, SIL is an acknowledged leader in formal academic programs for the components of cross-cultural language-based service. SIL works in partnership with more than 20 institutions around the world to offer classroom and online training in applied linguistics and related subjects. SIL offers technical expertise and training to support the decisions of both local and diaspora communities about how to maintain their cultures and use their languages to address their changing needs. Continue on Schedule O.
$13,276,138 spentof which $1,214,930 as grants$1,971,991 earned by the program29% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $45,034,175.
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 2020 to 2021, from $98M to $120M (+22%).
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.
79% of Summer Institute of Linguistics Inc dba SIL Global’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (96% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 6 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
Hans Combrink
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 14 funders, grant income rose $571k → $831k.
15 of 36 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 58% 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 Summer Institute of Linguistics Inc dba SIL Global’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 36 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
Summer Institute of Linguistics Inc dba SIL Global leans on a few funders — its largest provides 45% of grant income and the top three 81%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders 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 Summer Institute of Linguistics Inc dba SIL Global.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 71% · 2018 39% · 2019 48% · 2020 55% · 2021 40% · 2022 72% · 2023 51% — 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
44% of Summer Institute of Linguistics Inc dba SIL Global's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% 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
58% of Summer Institute of Linguistics Inc dba SIL Global'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 $5.7M that is directly attributable, 66% of it comes from funders outside Texas, across 13 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $8.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 12 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
Summer Institute of Linguistics Inc dba SIL Global has grown faster than half of the 174 international nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 174 international nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding Summer Institute of Linguistics Inc dba SIL Global receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $57k on record.
- International Trade Commission$57k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like Summer Institute of Linguistics Inc dba SIL Global
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
73% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 29 states
Part of a family of 5 related entities
- Language Consultants International Ltd · disregarded
- Translation Services International · disregarded
- Derivation LLC · disregarded
- JAARS Inc · exempt
- SIL LEAD Inc · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Summer Institute of Linguistics Inc dba SIL Global?
- Summer Institute of Linguistics Inc dba SIL Global (Texas) receives grants from 36 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,691,289 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($6,157,636). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 58% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Summer Institute of Linguistics Inc dba SIL Global have?
- IRS filings report 36 organizations giving $13,691,289 in grants to Summer Institute of Linguistics Inc dba SIL Global, 20 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Summer Institute of Linguistics Inc dba SIL Global?
- NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC is the largest funder on record, with $6,157,636 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Summer Institute of Linguistics Inc dba SIL Global 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.
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 36 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