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← BIG LIFE INTERNATIONAL INC

Form 990 for tax year 2022

Filed by BIG LIFE INTERNATIONAL INC.

Totals

Total revenue
$14,267,292
Total expenses
$14,244,083
Contributions and grants received
$14,530,449
Grants paid
$624,655
Program service revenue
$0
Investment income
$10,326
Other revenue
-$273,483
Total assets, end of year
$6,172,607
Total liabilities, end of year
$764,246
Net assets or fund balances, end of year
$5,408,361
Program services expenses (Part IX)
$10,626,846
Management and general expenses
$945,245
Fundraising expenses
$2,671,992
Program service expenses (Part III)
$10,626,846

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.

Revenue

Part VIII, the statement of revenue.

  • 1c · Fundraising events

    $916,788

  • 1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants

    $13,613,661

  • 1g · Noncash contributions included above

    $57,177

  • 3 · Investment income

    total $13,402 · excluded $13,402

  • 7a · Gross sales of assets other than inventory

    securities $57,177

  • 7b · Less cost or other basis and sales expenses

    securities $57,177 · other assets $3,076

  • 7c · Gain or loss

    securities $0 · other assets -$3,076

  • 7d · Net gain or loss

    total -$3,076 · excluded -$3,076

  • 8a · Fundraising events: gross income

    $0

  • 8a · Fundraising events: contributions included on line 1c

    $916,788

  • 8b · Fundraising events: direct expenses

    $273,483

  • 8c · Net income from fundraising events

    total -$273,483 · excluded -$273,483

Functional expenses

Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.

  • 1 · Grants to domestic organizations and governments

    total $460,692 · program services $460,692

  • 3 · Grants to foreign organizations and individuals

    total $163,963 · program services $163,963

  • 5 · Compensation of officers, directors and key employees

    total $633,889 · program services $311,734 · management and general $140,468 · fundraising $181,687

  • 7 · Other salaries and wages

    total $1,425,866 · program services $701,397 · management and general $315,676 · fundraising $408,793

  • 8 · Pension plan contributions

    total $53,173 · program services $26,149 · management and general $11,783 · fundraising $15,241

  • 9 · Other employee benefits

    total $1,525,268 · program services $1,443,073 · management and general $57,852 · fundraising $24,343

  • 11b · Fees: legal

    total $1,184 · management and general $1,184

  • 11c · Fees: accounting

    total $33,842 · management and general $33,842

  • 11g · Fees: other

    total $659,768 · management and general $4,486 · fundraising $655,282

  • 12 · Advertising and promotion

    total $6,290 · fundraising $6,290

  • 13 · Office expenses

    total $230,054 · management and general $164,064 · fundraising $65,990

  • 14 · Information technology

    total $77,694 · fundraising $77,694

  • 16 · Occupancy

    total $109,881 · management and general $109,881

  • 17 · Travel

    total $111,850 · program services $111,850

  • 19 · Conferences, conventions and meetings

    total $116,295 · management and general $96,353 · fundraising $19,942

  • 22 · Depreciation, depletion and amortization

    total $26,618 · program services $16,962 · management and general $9,656

  • 24a · Other expenses: Int'l Discipleship Work

    total $5,176,685 · program services $5,176,685

  • 24b · Other expenses: Program operations

    total $1,790,559 · program services $1,790,559

  • 24c · Other expenses: Ministry development

    total $1,216,730 · fundraising $1,216,730

  • 24d · Other expenses: Bible printing costs

    total $423,782 · program services $423,782

Balance sheet

Part X, book values.

  • 1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing

    beginning of year $2,442,460 · end of year $2,014,840

  • 2 · Savings and temporary cash investments

    beginning of year $790,966 · end of year $1,021,199

  • 3 · Pledges and grants receivable

    beginning of year $98,097 · end of year $45,172

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

    $2,993,451

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

    $130,397

  • 10c · Land, buildings and equipment, net

    beginning of year $2,053,975 · end of year $2,863,054

  • 15 · Other assets

    beginning of year $0 · end of year $228,342

  • 17 · Accounts payable and accrued expenses

    end of year $535,000

  • 25 · Other liabilities

    beginning of year $0 · end of year $229,246

  • 27 · Net assets without donor restrictions

    beginning of year $3,767,477 · end of year $2,836,809

  • 28 · Net assets with donor restrictions

    beginning of year $1,618,021 · end of year $2,571,552

Mission and programs · 2022

Mission

Biglife International Inc. empowers believers worldwide to reach and disciple their own people for Jesus Christ.

Activities or mission (Part I)

Empowering believers to reach and disciple people for Jesus Christ.

  • At the end of 2022, Biglife International, Inc. can report a cumulative net total of over 50,000 Biglife groups in 147 countries worldwide. In 2022, over 50,000 disciples of Jesus were added that we know about, however there are thousands more that we are unaware of. In 2021 and 2022, Biglife relocated over 50,000 Afghans to safer areas after the Taliban's takeover of Afghanistan.

    Expenses $10,626,846 · Grants $624,655

As filed on the 2022 return.

Listed in Part VII

  • John Heerema

    CEO

    Total calculated
    $261,046
    From this org
    $240,400
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $20,646
    Hours/week
    50

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $240,400
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $9,880
    Nontaxable benefits
    $11,548
    Filer's total
    $261,828
  • John Van Proyen

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Dan O'Berski

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Brad Benbow

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Kitty Allen

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Tom Dickinson

    Chairman

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Lee Wyatt

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Patrick Stuart

    Chairman (Part Year)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Don Ingle

    Director (Part Year)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • William Michell

    Director (Part Year)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Jeff Gibson

    President

    Total calculated
    $201,766
    From this org
    $183,400
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $18,366
    Hours/week
    50

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $183,400
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $7,600
    Nontaxable benefits
    $11,548
    Filer's total
    $202,548
  • Jim Evans

    CFO

    Total calculated
    $168,731
    From this org
    $155,200
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $13,531
    Hours/week
    50

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $155,200
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $6,400
    Nontaxable benefits
    $7,913
    Filer's total
    $169,513
  • Matthew Schneider

    NE Training Coordinator

    Total calculated
    $185,022
    From this org
    $167,300
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $17,722
    Hours/week
    50

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $167,300
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $6,956
    Nontaxable benefits
    $11,308
    Filer's total
    $185,564
  • Forrest Head

    COO

    Total calculated
    $184,566
    From this org
    $168,400
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $16,166
    Hours/week
    50

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $168,400
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $5,400
    Nontaxable benefits
    $11,548
    Filer's total
    $185,348
  • Gregory Pawlowski

    Advancement Officer

    Total calculated
    $130,502
    From this org
    $125,500
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $5,002
    Hours/week
    50
  • Burt Twomey

    Advancement Officer

    Total calculated
    $128,831
    From this org
    $121,700
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $7,131
    Hours/week
    50
  • Beau Vore

    Advancement Officer

    Total calculated
    $120,542
    From this org
    $120,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $542
    Hours/week
    50

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 · First-class or charter travel
  • 1b · Written policy on the line-1a expenses
  • 2 · Substantiation required before reimbursing expenses
  • 3 · Form 990 of other organizations
  • 3 · Compensation survey or study
  • 3 · Approval by the board or compensation committee
  • 7 · Other non-fixed payments

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
  • 8 · Paid under the initial-contract exception

The filer's explanations (Part III)

Part I, Line 1a
The CEO and CFO traveled 1st class for one bona fide business purpose as a non-taxable benefit.
Part I, Line 7
In 2022 discretionary bonuses were given to several employees. These bonuses were jointly determined and approved by the CEO and CFO.

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

Taxable family on this return

Schedule R Parts I, III and IV, as filed. These record ownership and control, not shared board members or money moved.

Disregarded entities

Part I: entities that legally are the filer and file no return of their own.

  • Not Unto Us LLC

    FL · income $0 · assets $0

    Directly controlled by Biglife International Inc

  • Life On Life LLC

    Technology · DE · income $100 · assets $200

    Directly controlled by Biglife International Inc

Provenance

Return type
form_990
Tax year
2022
Filed
21 August 2023
IRS schema version
2022v5.0
Source object
202302339349301450

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