California · Nonprofit
THROUGH THE WORD INC
THROUGH THE WORD INC (California) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $364,260 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($112,250). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 97% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2023
- $2.8M
- Funders on record
- 14
- Grants received
- $364k
- Net assets
- $3.0M
What Through the Word Inc does
Mission
Through the word is dedicated to equip people around the world to read the bible, understand it, apply it, and make it a habit. We provide simple yet powerful tools via the web and mobile apps that lead users on a journey to understand the entire bible, one chapter at a time.
As stated on its FY2023 Form 990.
Programs
Ttw bible audio & video guide production: ttw provides clear, concise, and relatable guides through each bible chapter in just 5 to 15 minutes. Our goal is to provide outstanding audio guides for every chapter in the bible.we have produced hundreds of original guides, including new testament audio bible content recordings; old testament audio bible content recordings; micro-content; topical content, training content and teaching content.approximately 200 new or updated guides were produced in 2023.
$663,012 spent46% of program spendingThrough the word app & website: our online tools led users through a simple daily bible experience about 54 million times. Ttw's innovative mobile app is cost and commercial free, equipping users to read or hear the bible along with a concise audio guide for each chapter. Daily use grew approximately 31% in 2023, and annual bible engagement was approximately 650 million minutes.in 2023, we invested in software improvements, features, teaching enhancements, content and listener support, capacity improvements, ministry growth and the addition of web and mobile user experience improvements. We also designed and launched the ttw together feature, which enables app users to follow plans together and share audio messages with friends directly on the ttw app.
$566,835 spent39% of program spendingTtw partnerships & translations: through the word provides bible reading plans for the youversion bible app, which includes ttw's unique bible audio guides. Youversion provides free marketing to through the word on their app, which has been installed on over 725 million devices worldwide. Over 35% of ttw app users are organic referrals from youversion.ttw continues to pursue ongoing additional partnerships with bible translation ministries and content delivery networks.
$225,232 spent15% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,455,079.
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 2020 to 2021, from $805k to $1.7M (+110%).
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.
98% of THROUGH THE WORD INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (90% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 7 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
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $500 → $89k.
9 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 97% 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 THROUGH THE WORD 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
THROUGH THE WORD INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 31% of grant income and the top three 83%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
97% 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 THROUGH THE WORD INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2020 94% · 2021 98% · 2022 98% · 2023 38% — 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.
Where its funders are
97% of THROUGH THE WORD INC'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 $10k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside California, across 4 states.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $355k arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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
THROUGH THE WORD INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 2,187 religion nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,187 religion nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2023
Organizations like THROUGH THE WORD 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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
67% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THROUGH THE WORD INC: 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 THROUGH THE WORD INC?
- THROUGH THE WORD INC (California) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $364,260 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($112,250). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 97% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does THROUGH THE WORD INC have?
- IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $364,260 in grants to THROUGH THE WORD INC, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THROUGH THE WORD INC?
- NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC is the largest funder on record, with $112,250 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THROUGH THE WORD INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 FY2023 (financials across 2017–2023), and the filings of 14 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