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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.

  • 1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants

    $1,342,145

  • 3 · Investment income

    total $190,851 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $190,851

  • 10a · Gross sales of inventory

    $62,787

  • 10b · Cost of goods sold

    $46,571

  • 10c · Net income from sales of inventory

    total $16,216 · related or exempt $16,216

  • 11a · Other revenue: IRS tax refund

    total $741 · related or exempt $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $741

  • 11e · Other revenue, total

    $741

Functional expenses

Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.

  • 1 · Grants to domestic organizations and governments

    total $59,302 · program services $59,302

  • 5 · Compensation of officers, directors and key employees

    total $272,536 · program services $204,402 · management and general $13,627 · fundraising $54,507

  • 6 · Compensation of disqualified persons

    total $29,073 · program services $26,869 · management and general $1,469 · fundraising $735

  • 7 · Other salaries and wages

    total $2,369 · program services $0 · management and general $2,369 · fundraising $0

  • 10 · Payroll taxes

    total $1,068 · program services $643 · management and general $357 · fundraising $68

  • 11c · Fees: accounting

    total $31,900 · program services $0 · management and general $31,900 · fundraising $0

  • 11g · Fees: other

    total $105,515 · program services $105,515 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

  • 12 · Advertising and promotion

    total $474 · program services $474 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

  • 13 · Office expenses

    total $62,648 · program services $10,742 · management and general $48,743 · fundraising $3,163

  • 14 · Information technology

    total $59,379 · program services $54,253 · management and general $1,025 · fundraising $4,101

  • 17 · Travel

    total $279,006 · program services $279,006 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

  • 22 · Depreciation, depletion and amortization

    total $11,905 · program services $11,905 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

  • 23 · Insurance

    total $274 · program services $0 · management and general $274 · fundraising $0

Balance sheet

Part X, book values.

  • 1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing

    beginning of year $242,027 · end of year $330,781

  • 2 · Savings and temporary cash investments

    beginning of year $914,143 · end of year $504,448

  • 5 · Loans and receivables from officers and key people

    end of year $14,673

  • 8 · Inventories for sale or use

    beginning of year $41,417 · end of year $78,525

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

    $55,453

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

    $39,422

  • 10c · Land, buildings and equipment, net

    beginning of year $23,892 · end of year $16,031

  • 11 · Investments: publicly traded securities

    beginning of year $4,137,844 · end of year $5,063,024

  • 17 · Accounts payable and accrued expenses

    beginning of year $50,102 · end of year $63,757

  • 22 · Loans and payables to officers and key people

    beginning of year $0 · end of year $0

  • 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.

  • 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

  • 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
  • Bonnie Barnett

    Vice Chair/Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    40
  • Duke Weir

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Jim Stubbs

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Randy Watson

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Stan Jordan

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • 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

Provenance

Return type
form_990
Tax year
2025
Filed
15 July 2026
IRS schema version
2025v4.1
Source object
202611999349300306

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