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THE R H BOYD COMPANY

THE R H BOYD COMPANY (Tennessee) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $63,371 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC ($30,871). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 88% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$4.2M
Funders on record
3
Grants received
$63k
Net assets
$11M
1/3 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 3%
01What it does

What The R H Boyd Company does

Mission

The r.h. Boyd company ("company") was formed in 1999 and began operations in 2000 and is exempt from taxation under section 501(c)(3) of the code. The company is affiliated with two other 501(c)(3) entities: the national baptist publishing board, which was founded in 1986, and the national congress of contemporary christian training, which was founded in 1906. The company publishes literature relevant to baptists and other christians of all denominations. The christian literature created is written, developed, and interpreted by african-americans to reflect their own experiences and experiences of their people. The company's mission is to provide biblically sound literature that is relevant to the african-american community. In addition to printing and publishing, the company also offers a complete range of products from sunday church school literature and vacation bible school programs to leadership development and small group ministry aids, workshops and hymnals.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. The company publishes literature relevant to baptists and other christians of all denominations. The christian literature created is written, developed, and interpreted by african-americans to reflect their own experiences and experiences of their people. The company serves over 39,000 african american church congregations through the distribution of authored literature and supplemental publications.

    $2,826,610 spentof which $70,490 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,826,610.

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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($3.4M) Expenses 100 ($3.6M) Net assets 100 ($22M)2018 Revenue 92 ($3.1M) Expenses 106 ($3.8M) Net assets 97 ($21M)2019 Revenue 114 ($3.8M) Expenses 114 ($4.1M) Net assets 96 ($21M)2020 Revenue 101 ($3.4M) Expenses 79 ($2.8M) Net assets 69 ($15M)2021 Revenue 49 ($1.6M) Expenses 93 ($3.3M) Net assets 62 ($13M)2022 Revenue 73 ($2.4M) Expenses 115 ($4.1M) Net assets 55 ($12M)2023 Revenue 78 ($2.6M) Expenses 126 ($4.5M) Net assets 47 ($10M)2024 Revenue 126 ($4.2M) Expenses 106 ($3.8M) Net assets 50 ($11M)
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Revenue (126)Expenses (106)Net assets (50)Peer revenue range

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 $21M to $15M (−28%).

$22M
$21M
$21M
$15M
$14M
$13M
$11M
$12M
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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
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

4% of THE R H BOYD COMPANY’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (90% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 2,735 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$209k
’17
−$687k
’18
−$221k
’19
$563k
’20
−$1.7M
’21
−$1.7M
’22
−$1.9M
’23
$447k
’24
23
months of
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.

Chief executive

Dr Ladonna Boyd

President/CEO

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

The chief executive listed changed between the FY2020 and FY2021 filings.

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Listed77785666
Joined·+0+0+3+0+1+0+0
No longer listed·0023000
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2021 → 2022: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $50k → $6k.

2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 88% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

Left out of every figure on this page: $3k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest National Baptist Publishing Board). These are real filings, and they are not money THE R H BOYD COMPANY raised.

From the IRS filings of THE R H BOYD COMPANY’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

THE R H BOYD COMPANY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 49% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

88% 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 THE R H BOYD COMPANY.

49%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 50% · 2022 100% — 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.

Where its funders are

88% of THE R H BOYD COMPANY'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 $8k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Tennessee, across 1 state.

OH

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $56k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

THE R H BOYD COMPANY holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 2,394 religion nonprofits its size.

Operating margin11% · above the median
Months of reserve22.8mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)3% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,394 religion nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Organizations like THE R H BOYD COMPANY

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 Tennessee

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

75% of spending goes to programs.

Program 75%Management 25%Fundraising 0%

Governance

5
board members
60%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

91%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

TN

Part of a family of 3 related entities

  • National Baptist Publishing Board · exempt
  • National Baptist Sunday School and Baptist Training Union Congress · exempt
  • Rh Boyd Publishing Corporation · corp_trust

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Questions and answers

Who funds THE R H BOYD COMPANY?
THE R H BOYD COMPANY (Tennessee) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $63,371 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC ($30,871). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 88% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does THE R H BOYD COMPANY have?
IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $63,371 in grants to THE R H BOYD COMPANY, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of THE R H BOYD COMPANY?
THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC is the largest funder on record, with $30,871 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like THE R H BOYD COMPANY find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Tennessee. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 3 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