Totals
- Total revenue
- $1,710,537
- Total expenses
- $1,799,859
- Contributions and grants received
- $1,704,862
- Grants paid
- $490,581
- Program service revenue
- $0
- Investment income
- $5,656
- Other revenue
- $19
- Total assets, end of year
- $647,832
- Total liabilities, end of year
- $0
- Net assets or fund balances, end of year
- $647,832
- Program services expenses (Part IX)
- $1,436,033
- Management and general expenses
- $281,624
- Fundraising expenses
- $82,202
- Program service expenses (Part III)
- $1,436,033
Program services were 79.8% 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.
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1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants
$1,704,862
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3 · Investment income
total $5,656 · excluded $5,656
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11a · Other revenue: Miscellaneous Revenue
total $19 · excluded $19
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11e · Other revenue, total
$19
Functional expenses
Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.
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3 · Grants to foreign organizations and individuals
total $490,581 · program services $490,581
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5 · Compensation of officers, directors and key employees
total $206,143 · program services $41,229 · management and general $123,685 · fundraising $41,229
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7 · Other salaries and wages
total $671,530 · program services $630,718 · management and general $16,599 · fundraising $24,213
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8 · Pension plan contributions
total $10,652 · program services $10,005 · management and general $263 · fundraising $384
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9 · Other employee benefits
total $50,922 · program services $47,827 · management and general $1,259 · fundraising $1,836
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10 · Payroll taxes
total $8,614 · program services $8,090 · management and general $213 · fundraising $311
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11b · Fees: legal
total $1,853 · management and general $1,853
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11c · Fees: accounting
total $41,810 · management and general $41,810
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11f · Fees: investment management
total $1,941 · management and general $1,941
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11g · Fees: other
total $1,579 · program services $1,579
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12 · Advertising and promotion
total $10,830 · fundraising $10,830
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13 · Office expenses
total $25,541 · management and general $25,541
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14 · Information technology
total $1,847 · management and general $1,847
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16 · Occupancy
total $51,275 · program services $10,255 · management and general $41,020
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17 · Travel
total $114,065 · program services $114,065
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19 · Conferences, conventions and meetings
total $10,655 · program services $10,655
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22 · Depreciation, depletion and amortization
total $205 · management and general $205
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23 · Insurance
total $12,911 · management and general $12,911
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24a · Other expenses: Ministry Expenses
total $42,095 · program services $42,095
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24b · Other expenses: Meals
total $28,934 · program services $28,934
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24c · Other expenses: Bank Charges
total $11,197 · management and general $11,197
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24d · Other expenses: Donor Development
total $3,399 · fundraising $3,399
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24e · All other expenses
total $1,280 · management and general $1,280
Balance sheet
Part X, book values.
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1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing
beginning of year $478,629 · end of year $383,856
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2 · Savings and temporary cash investments
beginning of year $251,414 · end of year $257,070
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4 · Accounts receivable
beginning of year $4,000 · end of year $4,000
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10a · Land, buildings and equipment: cost or other basis
$48,151
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10b · Land, buildings and equipment: accumulated depreciation
$45,245
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10c · Land, buildings and equipment, net
beginning of year $3,111 · end of year $2,906
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27 · Net assets without donor restrictions
beginning of year $106,168 · end of year $413,010
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28 · Net assets with donor restrictions
beginning of year $630,986 · end of year $234,822
Mission and programs · 2025
Mission
To equip and train oral people to make disciples who experience God through His Word in their own heart language and culture.
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The Organization specializes in training non-western oral learners through an Oral Bible, a collection of stories from the Bible that are told face-to-face and memorized. These training methods have proven very effective for evangelism, discipleship, and multiplication of disciple making and church planting movements among the least-reached people in non or semi-literate people groups.During 2025, 23,191 workers were trained in 769 events in 30 countries and 32 languages. About 78% of these training events were held without SIU funding. Additionally, 3,106 new local trainers and 845 new master trainers were trained to train others in the SIU Bridges model. (see Schedule O for continuation)Through these trainings, 6,742 new local church planters were equipped to plant Oral Bible Churches.During 2025, the Organization's network of international partners reported 36,502 new believers and 4,425 new Churches planted. This 2025 reporting also included 134 Bridges for Women training events held around the world with 6,376 women in attendance.In cumulative total, since collecting from Jan. 2008 forward, the Organization's international partners have reported 617,142 new believers and 119,980 new Churches planted. The total number of Bridges training events held during this timeframe is 19,854. These numbers are conservative as some of the Organization's partners are unable to report due to difficult and challenging circumstances. In the midst of the challenges faced each year, we work with our partners to provide timely, accurate, and conservative reporting.
Expenses $1,436,033 · Grants $490,581
As filed on the 2025 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.
Listed in Part VII
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Kent Kiefer
CEO/Exec Dir/Board Secretary
- Total calculated
- $206,143
- From this org
- $151,243
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $54,900
- Hours/week
- 40
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $149,663
- Bonus
- $1,580
- Other
- $0
- Deferred
- $13,500
- Nontaxable benefits
- $41,400
- Filer's total
- $206,143
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Isabel Kennedy
Board Chair
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Bill Edmunds
Vice Chair
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Steve Maegdlin
Treasurer
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Jerry Robison
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Lynda Robinson
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Jim Shipman
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Dan Vannelli
Director (Ended 10/25)
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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
- 1a · Housing allowance or residence for personal use
- 1b · Written policy on the line-1a expenses
- 2 · Substantiation required before reimbursing expenses
- 3 · Compensation committee
- 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
The filer's explanations (Part III)
- Part I, Line 1a
- The Organization provides a ministerial housing allowance under Section 107 of the Internal Revenue Code to Kent Kiefer (CEO/Executive Director). The total ministerial housing allowance provided to Mr. Kiefer during 2025 was $41,400. This amount is included in "Nontaxable benefits" on Form 990, Schedule J, Part II, Line 1, Column (D).
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
- 2025
- Filed
- 21 April 2026
- IRS schema version
- 2025v4.1
- Source object
- 202621269349302612
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