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TRINITARIAN BIBLE SOCIETY

TRINITARIAN BIBLE SOCIETY (Michigan) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $235,449 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($126,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 64% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$1.0M
Funders on record
8
Grants received
$235k
Net assets
$1.3M
6/8 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 9%
01What it does

What Trinitarian Bible Society does

Mission

Distribution of bibles and literature

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. The publishing and distribution of the holy scriptures throughout the world in different languages. The promotion of bible translations which are accurate and trustworthy. Upholding the bible as the inspired and inerrant word of god for the glory of god and the increase of his kingdom through the circulation of uncorrupted versions of the word of god.

    $765,061 spentof which $249,808 as grants$353,331 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $765,061.

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 ($440k) Expenses 100 ($498k) Net assets 100 ($732k)2018 Revenue 116 ($509k) Expenses 113 ($562k) Net assets 93 ($679k)2019 Revenue 137 ($604k) Expenses 110 ($545k) Net assets 100 ($735k)2020 Revenue 170 ($747k) Expenses 116 ($578k) Net assets 123 ($904k)2021 Revenue 179 ($785k) Expenses 146 ($726k) Net assets 131 ($960k)2022 Revenue 181 ($795k) Expenses 135 ($670k) Net assets 148 ($1.1M)2023 Revenue 184 ($808k) Expenses 144 ($716k) Net assets 160 ($1.2M)2024 Revenue 238 ($1.0M) Expenses 195 ($968k) Net assets 171 ($1.3M)
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Revenue (238)Expenses (195)Net assets (171)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 2020 to 2021, from $909k to $1.2M (+35%).

$770k
$707k
$811k
$909k
$1.2M
$1.2M
$1.4M
$1.4M
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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

65% of TRINITARIAN BIBLE SOCIETY’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (90% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 2,744 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$58k
’17
−$53k
’18
$59k
’19
$169k
’20
$59k
’21
$124k
’22
$92k
’23
$80k
’24
7.6
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.

'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24
Listed109999998
Joined·+0+1+2+1+1+0+0
No longer listed·1121101
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $92 → $51k.

4 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 64% 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 TRINITARIAN BIBLE SOCIETY’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

TRINITARIAN BIBLE SOCIETY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 54% of grant income and the top three 94%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

64% 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 TRINITARIAN BIBLE SOCIETY.

54%
largest funder
94%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 66% · 2022 60% · 2023 49% — 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

100% of TRINITARIAN BIBLE SOCIETY's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 75% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y

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

64% of TRINITARIAN BIBLE SOCIETY'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 $86k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Michigan funders.

MI
FL

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

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’22
’23
Michigan out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $150k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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

TRINITARIAN BIBLE SOCIETY runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 2,399 religion nonprofits its size.

Operating margin8% · above the median
Months of reserve7.6mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)13% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,399 religion nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Organizations like TRINITARIAN BIBLE SOCIETY

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 Michigan

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

79% of spending goes to programs.

Program 79%Management 21%Fundraising 0%

Governance

7
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

87%

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

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 2 related entities

  • Trinitarian Bible Society - London · exempt
  • Corporacion Sociedad Biblica Trinit · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds TRINITARIAN BIBLE SOCIETY?
TRINITARIAN BIBLE SOCIETY (Michigan) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $235,449 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($126,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 64% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does TRINITARIAN BIBLE SOCIETY have?
IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $235,449 in grants to TRINITARIAN BIBLE SOCIETY, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of TRINITARIAN BIBLE SOCIETY?
NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $126,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like TRINITARIAN BIBLE SOCIETY find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Michigan. 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 8 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing