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VILLAGE SCHOOLS OF THE BIBLE INC

VILLAGE SCHOOLS OF THE BIBLE INC (Minnesota) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $384,560 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($263,500). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 99% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$185k
Funders on record
6
Grants received
$385k
Net assets
$58k
4/6 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 20%
01What it does

What Village Schools of the Bible Inc does

Mission

Village schools of the bible transforms lives through in-depth study of god's word. People of all ages and denominations can gain a holistic understanding of the bible and deepen their faith. Significant actvities include in-person and virtual course offerings.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. Village schools of the bible provides a cover to cover study of the bible, both in-person and virtually to students of all ages. Class offerings include locations in the united states, tanzania, south africa, and haiti. In fy25: us in person 98 students; us virtual 55 students; tanzania 107 students; south africa 118 students; and haiti 9 students. Gatherings such as small groups and prophecy conversations take place weekly, with a varying range of attendance.

    $182,350 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $182,350.

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 ($352k) Expenses 100 ($320k) Net assets 100 ($120k)2018 Revenue 109 ($383k) Expenses 119 ($380k) Net assets 103 ($123k)2019 Revenue 98 ($344k) Expenses 94 ($300k) Net assets 118 ($141k)2020 Revenue 78 ($275k) Expenses 112 ($360k) Net assets 146 ($176k)2021 Revenue 85 ($300k) Expenses 115 ($369k) Net assets 160 ($192k)2022 Revenue 103 ($364k) Expenses 106 ($339k) Net assets 166 ($199k)2023 Revenue 105 ($370k) Expenses 122 ($392k) Net assets 147 ($176k)2024 Revenue 100 ($354k) Expenses 110 ($354k) Net assets 128 ($154k)2025 Revenue 52 ($185k) Expenses 93 ($298k) Net assets 48 ($58k)
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Revenue (52)Expenses (93)Net assets (48)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 2024 to 2025, from $154k to $59k (−61%).

$120k
$124k
$141k
$229k
$194k
$199k
$179k
$154k
$59k
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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
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

86% of VILLAGE SCHOOLS OF THE BIBLE INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 24,946 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$32k
’17
$3k
’18
$44k
’19
−$86k
’20
−$68k
’21
$24k
’22
−$22k
’23
$221
’24
−$113k
’25
5.2
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

Laurie Besonen

Executive Director

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.

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

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Listed889981178
Joined·+0+2+1+2+3+1+1
No longer listed·0113050
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income fell $41k → $28k.

4 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 99% 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 VILLAGE SCHOOLS OF THE BIBLE 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

VILLAGE SCHOOLS OF THE BIBLE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 69% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.

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

99% 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 VILLAGE SCHOOLS OF THE BIBLE INC.

69%
largest funder
99%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 99% · 2018 100% · 2019 74% · 2020 90% · 2021 100% · 2022 65% · 2023 57% — 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

99% of VILLAGE SCHOOLS OF THE BIBLE 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 $6k that is directly attributable, 91% of it comes from funders outside Minnesota, across 2 states.

MN
FL

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

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Minnesota out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $379k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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

VILLAGE SCHOOLS OF THE BIBLE INC's revenue fell 48% between 2017 and 2025.

Operating margin−61% · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−8% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like VILLAGE SCHOOLS OF THE BIBLE INC

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In Minnesota

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05Profile & governance

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MN

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for VILLAGE SCHOOLS OF THE BIBLE 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 VILLAGE SCHOOLS OF THE BIBLE INC?
VILLAGE SCHOOLS OF THE BIBLE INC (Minnesota) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $384,560 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($263,500). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 99% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does VILLAGE SCHOOLS OF THE BIBLE INC have?
IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $384,560 in grants to VILLAGE SCHOOLS OF THE BIBLE INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of VILLAGE SCHOOLS OF THE BIBLE INC?
NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC is the largest funder on record, with $263,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like VILLAGE SCHOOLS OF THE BIBLE INC 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 6 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