Form 990 for tax year 2025
Filed by DISCOVER THE BOOK MINISTRIES INC.
Totals
- Total revenue
- $1,549,953
- Total expenses
- $915,449
- Contributions and grants received
- $1,342,145
- Grants paid
- $59,302
- Program service revenue
- $0
- Investment income
- $190,851
- Other revenue
- $16,957
- Total assets, end of year
- $6,007,482
- Total liabilities, end of year
- $63,757
- Net assets or fund balances, end of year
- $5,943,725
- Program services expenses (Part IX)
- $753,111
- Management and general expenses
- $99,764
- Fundraising expenses
- $62,574
- Program service expenses (Part III)
- $753,111
Program services were 82.3% 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
$1,342,145
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3 · Investment income
total $190,851 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $190,851
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10a · Gross sales of inventory
$62,787
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10b · Cost of goods sold
$46,571
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10c · Net income from sales of inventory
total $16,216 · related or exempt $16,216
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11a · Other revenue: IRS tax refund
total $741 · related or exempt $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $741
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11e · Other revenue, total
$741
Functional expenses
Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.
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1 · Grants to domestic organizations and governments
total $59,302 · program services $59,302
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5 · Compensation of officers, directors and key employees
total $272,536 · program services $204,402 · management and general $13,627 · fundraising $54,507
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6 · Compensation of disqualified persons
total $29,073 · program services $26,869 · management and general $1,469 · fundraising $735
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7 · Other salaries and wages
total $2,369 · program services $0 · management and general $2,369 · fundraising $0
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10 · Payroll taxes
total $1,068 · program services $643 · management and general $357 · fundraising $68
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11c · Fees: accounting
total $31,900 · program services $0 · management and general $31,900 · fundraising $0
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11g · Fees: other
total $105,515 · program services $105,515 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0
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12 · Advertising and promotion
total $474 · program services $474 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0
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13 · Office expenses
total $62,648 · program services $10,742 · management and general $48,743 · fundraising $3,163
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14 · Information technology
total $59,379 · program services $54,253 · management and general $1,025 · fundraising $4,101
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17 · Travel
total $279,006 · program services $279,006 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0
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22 · Depreciation, depletion and amortization
total $11,905 · program services $11,905 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0
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23 · Insurance
total $274 · program services $0 · management and general $274 · fundraising $0
Balance sheet
Part X, book values.
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1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing
beginning of year $242,027 · end of year $330,781
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2 · Savings and temporary cash investments
beginning of year $914,143 · end of year $504,448
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5 · Loans and receivables from officers and key people
end of year $14,673
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8 · Inventories for sale or use
beginning of year $41,417 · end of year $78,525
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10a · Land, buildings and equipment: cost or other basis
$55,453
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10b · Land, buildings and equipment: accumulated depreciation
$39,422
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10c · Land, buildings and equipment, net
beginning of year $23,892 · end of year $16,031
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11 · Investments: publicly traded securities
beginning of year $4,137,844 · end of year $5,063,024
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17 · Accounts payable and accrued expenses
beginning of year $50,102 · end of year $63,757
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22 · Loans and payables to officers and key people
beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
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27 · Net assets without donor restrictions
beginning of year $5,309,221 · end of year $5,943,725
Mission and programs · 2025
Mission
Discover the Book Ministries exists to evangelize and disciple youth and adults worldwide. Grounded in the Holy Scriptures, we build and strengthen the church by providing online courses, training conferences, and biblical curriculum designed to cultivate lifelong disciple-makers.
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In 2025, Discover the Book Ministries (DTBM) significantly expanded its global reach by producing, editing, and distributing comprehensive evangelism and discipleship courses through our online platforms. These resources are strategically designed to biblically train and equip both NextGeneration students (youth) and Frontline students (adults) Our top three investments in fulfilling our program services in 2025 were: 1. VIRTUAL CLASSROOMS & CONTENT DEVELOPMENT To support massive audience growth, we continued to upgrade our primary studio cameras, audio equipment, and video processing capabilities. In 2025, we produced major new curriculum, including an exhaustive study through the book of Romans-the drivetrain of the Gospel-and a foundational historical course titled The Way We Got Our English Bibles. These resources are actively being used worldwide, including by urban missionaries in Brazil utilizing our Eschatology and History classes to train adolescents. 2. TRAINING CONFERENCES & GLOBAL OUTREACH We continued our commitment to face-to-face ministry through extensive international and domestic teaching tours. A major highlight of 2025 included traveling 18,000 miles across Asia to teach courses on Proverbs and 1 Thessalonians. Through these global deployments, we ministered directly to our remote students in locations ranging from Northern England and Korea to Florida, witnessing firsthand the transformative impact of our curriculum on young believers and frontline missionaries. 3. ONLINE EDUCATION (DTBM ACADEMY) The DTBM Academy experienced unprecedented, exponential growth in 2025, far surpassing previous enrollment milestones. We are now serving an active student body of over 10,000 registered students in the United States alone. Internationally, our daily educational outreach expanded dramatically to include over 900 students across Asia and Africa, 635 in Europe, 607 in Canada, and 472 in Australia. We also actively invested in resources to ensure these courses remain completely free for students in developing nations, while beginning initiatives to expand our Spanish-language outreach.
Expenses $753,111 · Grants $59,302 · Revenue $16,216
As filed on the 2025 return.
Listed in Part VII
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John Barnett
President & Chairman
- Total calculated
- $272,536
- From this org
- $134,888
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $137,648
- Hours/week
- 50
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $93,876
- Bonus
- $41,012
- Other
- $0
- Deferred
- $21,600
- Nontaxable benefits
- $116,048
- Filer's total
- $272,536
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Bonnie Barnett
Vice Chair/Secretary
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 40
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Duke Weir
Treasurer
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
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Jim Stubbs
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Randy Watson
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Stan Jordan
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.5
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Estelle Barnett
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.5
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
- 3 · Compensation committee
- 3 · Approval by the board or compensation committee
Answered no
- 2 · Substantiation required before reimbursing expenses
- 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
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$55,699
Missionary support
Provenance
- Return type
- form_990
- Tax year
- 2025
- Filed
- 15 July 2026
- IRS schema version
- 2025v4.1
- Source object
- 202611999349300306
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