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TIMOTHY INTERNATIONAL

TIMOTHY INTERNATIONAL (Tennessee) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $435,280 to it, the largest being W BOYD AND EMILY MONTAGUE FREY (SMITH) KING CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($421,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$106k
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$435k
Net assets
$4k
2/2 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year
01What it does

What Timothy International does

Mission

Theological Education. Teaching trips to Asia and Africa four or more times per year. Support for national church leaders and support to national church organizations.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. teaching trips to Asia and Africa four or more times per year. Support for national church leaders and support to national church organizations.

    $0 spent

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $0.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 = 20212021 Revenue 100 ($125k) Expenses 100 ($25k) Net assets 100 ($121k)2022 Revenue 11 ($14k) Expenses 401 ($100k) Net assets 29 ($34k)2023 Revenue 82 ($102k) Expenses 487 ($122k) Net assets 13 ($15k)2024 Revenue 84 ($105k) Expenses 424 ($106k) Net assets 12 ($15k)2025 Revenue 85 ($106k) Expenses 469 ($117k) Net assets 3 ($4k)
20212022202320242025
Revenue (85)Expenses (469)Net assets (3)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 2021 to 2022, from $121k to $34k (−71%).

$121k
$34k
$15k
$15k
$4k
20212022202320242025
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.

2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

99% of TIMOTHY INTERNATIONAL’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (87% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 7,828 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

$100k
’21
−$86k
’22
−$19k
’23
−$331
’24
−$11k
’25
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $5k → $106k.

Funder
'17
'20
'21
'23
'24*
'25*
total
funders
1
1
1
2
2
1

From the IRS filings of TIMOTHY INTERNATIONAL’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

TIMOTHY INTERNATIONAL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 97% 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

97%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2023 95% — 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 TIMOTHY INTERNATIONAL's grant income comes from Tennessee funders.

TN
TX

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’17
’20
’21
’23
Tennessee out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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

TIMOTHY INTERNATIONAL's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 2 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin−10% · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−4% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,237 philanthropy nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

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In Tennessee

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05Profile & governance

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

Public support

100%

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

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for TIMOTHY INTERNATIONAL: 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 TIMOTHY INTERNATIONAL?
TIMOTHY INTERNATIONAL (Tennessee) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $435,280 to it, the largest being W BOYD AND EMILY MONTAGUE FREY (SMITH) KING CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($421,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does TIMOTHY INTERNATIONAL have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $435,280 in grants to TIMOTHY INTERNATIONAL, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of TIMOTHY INTERNATIONAL?
W BOYD AND EMILY MONTAGUE FREY (SMITH) KING CHARITABLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $421,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like TIMOTHY INTERNATIONAL 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.

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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 2021–2025), and the filings of 2 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