Form 990 for tax year 2023

Totals

Total revenue

$10,976,427

Total expenses

$10,823,758

Contributions and grants received

$10,963,004

Grants paid

$0

Program service revenue

$0

Investment income

$387

Other revenue

$13,036

Total assets, end of year

$2,970,780

Total liabilities, end of year

$1,530,644

Net assets or fund balances, end of year

$1,440,136

Program services expenses (Part IX)

$8,078,937

Management and general expenses

$1,752,738

Fundraising expenses

$992,083

Program service expenses (Part III)

$8,078,937

Program services were 74.6% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

Line items

Every line the filer filed in Parts VIII, IX and X, as filed and in filed order. Blank columns are left out, and the lines are not forced to add up to the totals above.

Mission and programs · 2023

• Whole Bible Whole Nation (WBWN) We now have 6 Whole Bible for the Whole Nation programs in progress and several more in development. These programs empower church networks to be successful in reaching the least reached in their nation with the Gospel in every language. In 2023, two New Testaments were completed and several more books in dozens of languages. unfoldingWord Open Bible Stories is a foundational resource in these programs, teaching translation principles and providing a tool for evangelism and discipleship among the least reached. This resource is now available in over 169 languages all throughout the world. *6 active programs *Expanding the Sudan initiative to the full suite of programs that uW has to offer: OBS training platform, Introduction to scripture training platform (EJ), Advanced "book package" scripture translation, and checking to the original languages (tCore) *Completing the second (Group B) set of seven languages in the OBS training platform in Chad, with 90% of training delivered by uW's partner PCET. *Launching an OBS training program with five languages in Group A in Benin *Completing 5 new testaments in a Southeast Asia program, the first such completions in unfoldingWord's portfolio of field programs *A Southeast Asian Sign Language team was able to exceed their goal of 10 videos and have completed 36 videos on portions of the Gospels. *Published OBS translations: 68 > 169

  Expenses $3,979,774

• Technology Our technology portfolio saw several exciting developments in both software features and expanding the number of developers contributing to the Open Components Ecosystem (OCE). Over 50 developers participated in the OCE Hackathon from 4 global locations. VCANA,the gateway suite of tools, and Scribe SE all received important feature updates, with an overall focus on end-to-end usability. *Held a 50+ person hackathon with 4 locations globally *Trained 5 Delhi based software developers in OCE development *Released initial version of a WYSIWYG editor component *Transitioned product support to a remote team *Developed the prototype for an offline translation application

  Expenses $1,651,299

• Strategic Language Resources .We completed development and a pilot test of Equipping Journey 1.0, an integrated translation and theological formation program. We also made progress on our Translation Book Packages by adding 48 newly completed resource sets across a handful of languages (bringing the total to 554). We are excited to be partnering with the ETEN Innovation Lab and BiblioNexus to help fill up the Bible Aquifer with trustworthy Bible resources in strategic languages. *Completing a 3-book pilot program with Bible Society of Jordan, paving the way for a full Modern Standard Arabic project to be launched in 2024. *Continuing progress in the Russian language initiative, with additional book packages completed in Russian and additional book translations completed in the associated Ukrainian Romani language program *Completed 5 Old Testament Book Packages *Continuing to equip and resource network partners to translate and publish Biblical content, translation helps, and training resources. *EJ 1.0 *Completed P resources for translators: 506>554

  Expenses $1,552,063

• Catalyzation In December we held the second annual Global Church-Centric Bible Translation Forum with 75 participants representing 17 organizations. The 2023 Global CCBT Forum served as a catalyst for meaningful connections, strategic planning, and personal reflections, leaving participants inspired and motivated for ongoing collaboration in their mission to bring the Word of God to every language and people group. In addition, there are now at least 21 Western organizations releasing open licensed biblical resources. We now have over 430 openly licensed biblical resources published in our catalog. *Global CCBT Forum *880 hours of training trainers *Now 21 Western Christian Organizations releasing open licensed biblical resources *Open licensed resources published in our catalog: 405>432

  Expenses $552,874

• New Initiatives Work across Latin America, South Asia, and Equatorial SubSahara yielded exciting progress in several projects. Out of this portfolio we launched 3 new Whole Bible Whole Nation programs: Colombia, Benin, and Togo. We began work with a large-scale church planting network in South Asia, helping them to create effective training pathways for their people that still need Scripture. We are also providing resources for 2 different sign language translation teams in South and Southeast Asia. *Latin America Macronet has expanded from Venezuela to Colombia, Ecuador, and Brazil.

  Expenses $342,927

As filed on the 2023 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Listed in Part VII

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those.

Grants on this return

No itemized grants to organizations on this return.

Provenance

Return type

form_990

Tax year

2023

Filed

10 May 2024

IRS schema version

2023v5.0

Source object

202401319349302080

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