Skip to content
Nonprofiteer
← THE BIOLOGOS FOUNDATION INC

Form 990 for tax year 2023

Filed by THE BIOLOGOS FOUNDATION INC.

Totals

Total revenue
$2,255,748
Total expenses
$2,428,715
Contributions and grants received
$2,177,583
Grants paid
$0
Program service revenue
$26,704
Investment income
$40,879
Other revenue
$10,582
Total assets, end of year
$2,684,874
Total liabilities, end of year
$366,872
Net assets or fund balances, end of year
$2,318,002
Program services expenses (Part IX)
$1,726,258
Management and general expenses
$261,115
Fundraising expenses
$441,342
Program service expenses (Part III)
$1,726,258

Program services were 71.1% 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

    $2,177,583

  • 1g · Noncash contributions included above

    $3,492

  • 2a · Program service revenue: EVENT INCOME

    total $13,648 · related or exempt $13,648

  • 2b · Program service revenue: CURRICULUM SALES

    total $13,056 · related or exempt $13,056

  • 3 · Investment income

    total $35,345 · excluded $35,345

  • 5 · Royalties

    total $10,582 · related or exempt $10,582

  • 7a · Gross sales of assets other than inventory

    securities $500,000 · other assets $1,800

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

    securities $496,266

  • 7c · Gain or loss

    securities $3,734 · other assets $1,800

  • 7d · Net gain or loss

    total $5,534 · excluded $5,534

Functional expenses

Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.

  • 5 · Compensation of officers, directors and key employees

    total $191,207 · program services $134,916 · fundraising $56,291

  • 7 · Other salaries and wages

    total $1,059,622 · program services $850,935 · management and general $64,696 · fundraising $143,991

  • 8 · Pension plan contributions

    total $26,450 · program services $26,450

  • 9 · Other employee benefits

    total $102,451 · program services $58,132 · management and general $20,361 · fundraising $23,958

  • 10 · Payroll taxes

    total $95,882 · program services $85,269 · management and general $6,045 · fundraising $4,568

  • 11b · Fees: legal

    total $10,245 · program services $5,160 · management and general $5,085

  • 11c · Fees: accounting

    total $104,948 · program services $47,169 · management and general $57,779

  • 11g · Fees: other

    total $270,529 · program services $121,766 · management and general $28,600 · fundraising $120,163

  • 12 · Advertising and promotion

    total $49,163 · program services $47,617 · fundraising $1,546

  • 13 · Office expenses

    total $92,101 · program services $27,966 · management and general $34,300 · fundraising $29,835

  • 14 · Information technology

    total $127,085 · program services $121,335 · fundraising $5,750

  • 16 · Occupancy

    total $63,602 · program services $46,334 · management and general $17,268

  • 19 · Conferences, conventions and meetings

    total $190,139 · program services $120,799 · management and general $14,100 · fundraising $55,240

  • 22 · Depreciation, depletion and amortization

    total $27,576 · program services $27,576

  • 23 · Insurance

    total $9,669 · program services $4,834 · management and general $4,835

  • 24e · All other expenses

    total $8,046 · management and general $8,046

Balance sheet

Part X, book values.

  • 1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing

    beginning of year $269,023 · end of year $345,273

  • 2 · Savings and temporary cash investments

    beginning of year $592,323 · end of year $72,332

  • 3 · Pledges and grants receivable

    beginning of year $66,231 · end of year $74,334

  • 4 · Accounts receivable

    beginning of year $18,280 · end of year $18,280

  • 9 · Prepaid expenses and deferred charges

    beginning of year $57,532 · end of year $46,599

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

    $67,059

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

    $64,610

  • 10c · Land, buildings and equipment, net

    beginning of year $5,595 · end of year $2,449

  • 11 · Investments: publicly traded securities

    beginning of year $1,875,214 · end of year $1,456,152

  • 14 · Intangible assets

    beginning of year $64,295 · end of year $39,864

  • 15 · Other assets

    beginning of year $75,567 · end of year $629,591

  • 17 · Accounts payable and accrued expenses

    beginning of year $101,255 · end of year $102,955

  • 19 · Deferred revenue

    end of year $8,000

  • 25 · Other liabilities

    beginning of year $476,931 · end of year $255,917

  • 27 · Net assets without donor restrictions

    beginning of year $2,330,874 · end of year $1,713,819

  • 28 · Net assets with donor restrictions

    beginning of year $115,000 · end of year $604,183

Mission and programs · 2023

Mission

BIOLOGOS EXPLORES GOD'S WORD AND GOD'S WORLD TO INSPIRE AUTHENTIC FAITH FOR TODAY.

Activities or mission (Part I)

BIOLOGOS EXPLORES GOD'S WORD AND GOD'S WORLD, REACHING MILLIONS WITH OUR WEBSITE, EVENTS, PODCAST, CURRICULA, AND MORE, SHOWING HOW SCIENCE AND FAITH WORK HAND IN HAND.

  • WEBSITE, PODCAST, ONLINE COMMUNICATIONS IN 2023, OUR AUDIENCE ENGAGEMENT GREW STEADILY. OUR SOCIAL MEDIA CONTENT ON FACEBOOK, INSTAGRAM, AND YOUTUBE REACHED OVER 1 MILLION USERS, WHILE WE SENT MORE THAN 1 MILLION EMAILS AND GAINED OVER 2,000 NEW SUBSCRIBERS, MANY OPTING FOR WEEKLY UPDATES. THE LANGUAGE OF GOD PODCAST ADDED 2,593 FOLLOWERS ON APPLE AND SPOTIFY, FEATURING NOTABLE GUESTS LIKE DAVID BROOKS, CURTIS CHANG, AND ANCESTRY CEO DEB LIU. WE ALSO PUBLISHED 41 PIECES OF CONTENT ON OUR WEBSITE, INCLUDING A WORSHIP VIDEO WITH THE CALVIN INSTITUTE OF WORSHIP, A TRIBUTE TO TIM KELLER BY FRANCIS COLLINS, AND A SERIES EXPLORING FAITH, SCIENCE, AND THE ARTS.

    Expenses $563,873

  • CONFERENCE & EVENTS OUR LARGEST 2023 EVENT WAS THE CREATION CARE SUMMIT IN OCTOBER, A FULL-DAY CONFERENCE EXPLORING ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES FROM A CHRISTIAN PERSPECTIVE. THE EVENT DREW 250 ATTENDEES, WITH NEARLY AS MANY MORE JOINING VIA LIVESTREAM. SPEAKERS INCLUDED A WIDE RANGE OF LOCAL AND NATIONAL SCIENTISTS, THEOLOGIANS, AND ENVIRONMENTAL LEADERS, AS WELL AS BEST-SELLING AUTHOR SY MONTGOMERY. IN APRIL, HUNDREDS OF ATTENDEES JOINED OUR EVENT AT THE HISTORIC FOX THEATER IN REDWOOD CITY, CA, FEATURING BIOLOGOS' PRESIDENT DEB HAARSMA AND FOUNDER FRANCIS COLLINS. WE ALSO EXPANDED OUR BIOLOGOS VOICES SPEAKERS BUREAU WITH 11 NEW SPEAKERS, BRINGING THE GROUP TO 25 LEADING SCIENTISTS AND SCHOLARS IN THE BIOLOGOS COMMUNITY.

    Expenses $248,790 · Revenue $13,648

  • CURRICULUM IN 2023, THE INTEGRATE CURRICULUM CONTINUED TO IMPACT CHRISTIAN SCHOOL AND HOME SCHOOL EDUCATION IN THE US AND ABROAD. OVER 100 COPIES WERE SOLD, IMPACTING A BROAD RANGE OF STUDENTS AROUND THE COUNTRY. THE CURRICULUM WAS MARKETED ACROSS SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS AND THROUGH GOOGLE ADWORDS. INTEGRATE TEAM MEMBERS EXHIBITED AND LED WORKSHOPS AT 6 NATIONAL EDUCATION CONFERENCES. FIVE UNITS WERE TRANSLATED INTO SPANISH TO GIVE DOMESTIC AND INTERNATIONAL HISPANIC COMMUNITIES ACCESS TO THE CURRICULUM. UNIT 1: FAITH & SCIENCE FOUNDATIONS WAS ADAPTED INTO AN ONLINE COURSE IN PARTNERSHIP WITH FULLER EQUIP. OUR COMMUNITIES OF ENGAGED EDUCATORS AND PARENTS CONTINUE TO GROW AS WORD ABOUT THE CURRICULUM SPREADS.

    Expenses $288,119 · Revenue $13,056

  • OTHER PROGRAMS

    Expenses $625,476 · Revenue $10,582

As filed on the 2023 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Listed in Part VII

  • Deborah Haarsma

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $189,786
    From this org
    $173,914
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $15,872
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $173,914
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    $5,283
    Nontaxable benefits
    $10,589
    Filer's total
    $189,786
  • Jim Stump

    VP OF PROGRA

    Total calculated
    $147,571
    From this org
    $130,754
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $16,817
    Hours/week
    40
  • Dwight Baker

    CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Jeff Hardin

    VICE CHAIR J

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • April Maskiewicz Cordero

    VICE CHAIR A

    Total calculated
    $6,000
    From this org
    $6,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Larry Langdon

    SEC JAN-APR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Andrew Ginsberg

    SECRETARY AP

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Praveen Sethupathy

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Claude Alexander

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Roseanne Sension

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Curtis Chang

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Jennifer Wiseman

    DIRECTOR JAN

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Jeff Wright

    DIRECTOR APR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Charmaine Royal

    DIRECTOR NOV

    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

  • 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
2023
Filed
23 September 2024
IRS schema version
2023v5.0
Source object
202402699349301115

Check it against the return as filed: the GivingTuesday Data Lake hosts a public copy of the original XML.

The source document this was parsed from is served over the API, which is where bulk and document access live.