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Form 990 for tax year 2022

Filed by UNFOLDINGWORD.

Totals

Total revenue
$9,854,171
Total expenses
$9,630,083
Contributions and grants received
$9,844,959
Grants paid
$0
Program service revenue
$0
Investment income
$749
Other revenue
$8,463
Total assets, end of year
$3,137,314
Total liabilities, end of year
$1,849,847
Net assets or fund balances, end of year
$1,287,467
Program services expenses (Part IX)
$7,297,582
Management and general expenses
$1,781,963
Fundraising expenses
$550,538
Program service expenses (Part III)
$7,297,582

Program services were 75.8% 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.

Revenue

Part VIII, the statement of revenue.

  • 1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants

    $9,844,959

  • 3 · Investment income

    total $749 · excluded $749

  • 11d · All other revenue

    total $8,463 · excluded $8,463

  • 11e · Other revenue, total

    $8,463

Functional expenses

Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.

  • 5 · Compensation of officers, directors and key employees

    total $333,510 · management and general $333,510

  • 6 · Compensation of disqualified persons

    total $348,120 · program services $229,499 · management and general $65,840 · fundraising $52,781

  • 7 · Other salaries and wages

    total $1,526,461 · program services $1,024,562 · management and general $237,359 · fundraising $264,540

  • 9 · Other employee benefits

    total $103,658 · program services $68,337 · management and general $19,605 · fundraising $15,716

  • 10 · Payroll taxes

    total $218,318 · program services $125,688 · management and general $92,630

  • 11b · Fees: legal

    total $35,898 · management and general $35,898

  • 11c · Fees: accounting

    total $25,448 · management and general $25,448

  • 11g · Fees: other

    total $5,780,205 · program services $5,264,340 · management and general $362,940 · fundraising $152,925

  • 12 · Advertising and promotion

    total $4,850 · fundraising $4,850

  • 13 · Office expenses

    total $194,795 · program services $9,509 · management and general $146,384 · fundraising $38,902

  • 14 · Information technology

    total $59,465 · program services $17,648 · management and general $38,389 · fundraising $3,428

  • 16 · Occupancy

    total $141,957 · program services $2,130 · management and general $139,827

  • 17 · Travel

    total $592,057 · program services $437,270 · management and general $138,217 · fundraising $16,570

  • 19 · Conferences, conventions and meetings

    total $192,990 · program services $117,499 · management and general $74,665 · fundraising $826

  • 22 · Depreciation, depletion and amortization

    total $60,292 · program services $1,100 · management and general $59,192

  • 23 · Insurance

    total $12,059 · management and general $12,059

Balance sheet

Part X, book values.

  • 1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing

    beginning of year $1,105,235 · end of year $338,577

  • 2 · Savings and temporary cash investments

    beginning of year $203,646 · end of year $1,366,505

  • 4 · Accounts receivable

    beginning of year $121,067 · end of year $79,995

  • 9 · Prepaid expenses and deferred charges

    beginning of year $44,010 · end of year $69,925

  • 10a · Land, buildings and equipment: cost or other basis

    $720,434

  • 10b · Land, buildings and equipment: accumulated depreciation

    $125,800

  • 10c · Land, buildings and equipment, net

    beginning of year $201,293 · end of year $594,634

  • 15 · Other assets

    beginning of year $0 · end of year $687,678

  • 17 · Accounts payable and accrued expenses

    beginning of year $434,147 · end of year $690,890

  • 25 · Other liabilities

    beginning of year $0 · end of year $1,158,957

  • 27 · Net assets without donor restrictions

    beginning of year $598,155 · end of year $287,605

  • 28 · Net assets with donor restrictions

    beginning of year $642,949 · end of year $999,862

Mission and programs · 2022

Mission

unfoldingWord revolutionizes Bible translation by empowering the global church with cutting-edge technology & creative common resources so people around the world can quickly & reliably translate the Bible and other biblical resources into their own language.

Activities or mission (Part I)

Provide consulting, management, and support services for Christian organizations and ministries.

  • Gateway Languages (GL)Continuing to equip and resource network partners to translate and publish Biblical content, translation helps, and training resources. Biblical content included: The unfoldingWord Literal Text (ULT), unfoldingWord Simplified Text (UST), Open Bible Stories (OBS).Translation helps included: unfoldingWord Translation Words (UTW), unfoldingWord Translation Notes (UTN), unfoldingWord Translation Questions (UTQ).Training resources included: unfoldingWord Translation Academy (UTA)Foundational documents translated into Spanish: "Unreached to Established," "Letting Go," "Trusted To Trustworthy, and "The Gateway Language Strategy".Translation of 36 Book packages reaching publication. 14 languages groups completed fifty OBS stories. 4 NTs completed.

    Expenses $4,568,456

  • ToolsOur tools program released several important updates to equip the global church in their pursuit of faithful Bible translation.translationCore toolset was released, adding support for complex scripts through an open source package we developed that is include in the Open Components Ecosystem. We have worked with 5+ international organizations to further develop and release open components. We released English Translation Book Packages, which include a full suite of resources designed to help translation teams understand the Bible and check their translations. unfoldingWord Open Bible Stories was augmented by new supporting resources designed to help churches understand the study the stories. A new tool, tC Create, was updated to help Gateway Language teams translation non-scripture helps resources.Our main content service, DCS, received several major updates including a new integrated catalog feature that simplifies the publishing process.Additional prototypes are in development to test for future functionality for the translationCore Toolset.

    Expenses $2,378,743

  • InnovationDeveloping The Equipping Journey (EJ) series to provide theological formation alongside our partnering church networks. Establishing basic translation and quality assurance expertise and associated oversight in a partnering church network.Laid the foundation for future Bible translation through a series of training workshops testing new training models to help partnering church networks teach translation principles while simultaneously maturing churches and believers in their faith.Developing the Gateway Languages Database (GL Database) to equip researchers within church networks with the best available language data, together with a mechanism for them to provide updated language identification and Bible translation status reports.

    Expenses $350,383

As filed on the 2022 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Listed in Part VII

  • David Reeves

    President & CEO

    Total calculated
    $139,000
    From this org
    $136,250
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $2,750
    Hours/week
    40
  • Michael Vos

    Chairman

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.8
  • Max Anders

    Vice Chairman

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.8
  • Aaron Erickson

    Director / Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.8
  • Al Anderstrom

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.8
  • Joel Hunter

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.8
  • W Darrell Walters

    CFO

    Total calculated
    $96,460
    From this org
    $96,460
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40
  • Jesse Griffin

    COO

    Total calculated
    $98,050
    From this org
    $95,300
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $2,750
    Hours/week
    40
  • Timothy Jore

    Innovation & Strategy

    Total calculated
    $132,500
    From this org
    $129,750
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $2,750
    Hours/week
    40
  • Christopher Klapp

    Research & Development

    Total calculated
    $118,720
    From this org
    $118,720
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40
  • Perry Oakes

    Content

    Total calculated
    $103,880
    From this org
    $102,920
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $960
    Hours/week
    40
  • Douglas Coutcher

    Fundraising

    Total calculated
    $102,290
    From this org
    $102,290
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40
  • Eric Steggerda

    Field Networks, Former COO

    Total calculated
    $129,320
    From this org
    $126,570
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $2,750
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $126,570
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $2,750
    Filer's total
    $129,320

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. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us.

Schedule J

Answered yes

  • 2 · Substantiation required before reimbursing expenses
  • 3 · Written employment contract
  • 3 · Compensation survey or study
  • 3 · Approval by the board or compensation committee

Answered no

  • 4a · Severance or change-of-control payment
  • 4b · Supplemental nonqualified retirement plan
  • 4c · Equity-based compensation arrangement
  • 5a · Pay contingent on this organization's revenues
  • 5b · Pay contingent on a related organization's revenues
  • 6a · Pay contingent on this organization's net earnings
  • 6b · Pay contingent on a related organization's net earnings
  • 7 · Other non-fixed payments
  • 8 · Paid under the initial-contract exception

Part I's answers as filed. A line not listed was left unanswered; on lines 1a and 3 that means the box was not checked.

Grants on this return

No itemized grants to organizations on this return.

Provenance

Return type
form_990
Tax year
2022
Filed
2 June 2023
IRS schema version
2022v5.0
Source object
202321539349300622

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