Minnesota · Nonprofit
THEY NEED THE BIBLE
THEY NEED THE BIBLE (Minnesota) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $42,600 to it, the largest being LUTHERAN BIBLE TRANSLATORS INC ($30,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $214k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $43k
- Net assets
- $35k
What They Need the Bible does
Mission
To operate a non-denominational christian ministry and improve access to the bible and other christian and literacy resources through translation work. This includes but is not limited to: 1) establishing networks of translation staff and facilitate translation teams in the united states and abroad, 2) mentoring, educating and empowering translators to accurately and efficiently complete translations; and 3) supporting the distribution of existing translations of the bible and other christian resources in the united states and abroad in this shared mission.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
They Need the Bible is currently sponsoring active bible translation work for 10 languages. In 2025, we facilitated translation of the first books ever printed for 4 undocumented languages, giving access to the gospel of luke for thousands of minority language speakers. This year created a groundbreaking education program for speakers from remote islands to learn translation basics. Four students completed this course in 2025. We also worked to document approximately 11,000 words, to later be cataloged into dictionaries. We also signed contracts for the addition of six new languages to begin new bible translation efforts in 2026.
$201,792 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $201,792.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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 2023 to 2024, from $32k to $35k (+8%).
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.
100% of THEY NEED THE BIBLE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 30% 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 THEY NEED THE BIBLE’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
THEY NEED THE BIBLE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 70% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 THEY NEED THE BIBLE.
“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
THEY NEED THE BIBLE draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Minnesota, across 1 state in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $13k 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.
Against its field
THEY NEED THE BIBLE has grown faster 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 THEY NEED THE BIBLE
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
63% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THEY NEED THE BIBLE: 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 THEY NEED THE BIBLE?
- THEY NEED THE BIBLE (Minnesota) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $42,600 to it, the largest being LUTHERAN BIBLE TRANSLATORS INC ($30,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THEY NEED THE BIBLE have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $42,600 in grants to THEY NEED THE BIBLE.
- Who is the largest funder of THEY NEED THE BIBLE?
- LUTHERAN BIBLE TRANSLATORS INC is the largest funder on record, with $30,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THEY NEED THE BIBLE 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 FY2024 (financials across 2023–2024), 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