BIBLE STUDY FELLOWSHIP

As filed

Subsection

03

NTEE code

X20Z

Classification

7000

Street

18756 STONE OAK PARKWAY

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2024

• BIBLE STUDY FELLOWSHIP (BSF) AND ITS AFFILIATES CURRENTLY OPERATE 1,568 CLASSES PLUS 9,339 SATELLITE DISCUSSION GROUPS WHERE MEMBERS MEET WEEKLY FOR IN-DEPTH BIBLE STUDY. THESE CLASSES AND GROUPS MEET IN 71 DIFFERENT COUNTRIES. IN ADDITION, BSF HOSTS 3,323 ONLINE DISCUSSION GROUPS THAT ALLOW CLASS MEMBERS IN 188 DIFFERENT COUNTRIES TO PARTICIPATE IN WEEKLY SMALL GROUP DISCUSSIONS OVER THEIR COMPUTER OR CONNECTED DEVICES. THESE ONLINE DISCUSSION GROUPS HAVE GROWN OUT OF BSF'S STRATEGIC INVESTMENT IN TECHNOLOGY AND DIGITAL OPTIONS AS THEY SEEK TO REACH PEOPLE OF ALL AGES, RACES, COUNTRIES, AND CULTURES WITH IN-DEPTH BIBLE STUDY. THE ORGANIZATION'S MISSION IS: GLOBAL, IN-DEPTH BIBLE CLASSES PRODUCING PASSIONATE COMMITMENT TO CHRIST, HIS WORD, AND HIS CHURCH. THE VISION IS TO MAGNIFY GOD AND MATURE HIS PEOPLE.

  Expenses $29,489,882 · Grants $125,000

As filed on the 2024 return.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

• 2024

  Revenue

  $41,437,643

  Expenses

  $33,825,284

  Contributions

  $40,944,667

  Grants paid

  $125,000

• 2023

  Revenue

  $26,178,215

  Expenses

  $32,402,082

  Contributions

  $26,771,507

  Grants paid

  $557,347

• 2022

  Revenue

  $25,520,451

  Expenses

  $27,152,830

  Contributions

  $25,752,295

  Grants paid

  $30,000

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

• 2021 · 990

  Revenue

  $26,534,075

  Expenses

  $30,507,604

  Assets (EOY)

  $20,095,633

• 2020 · 990

  Revenue

  $27,831,196

  Expenses

  $25,295,957

  Assets (EOY)

  $20,886,435

• 2019 · 990

  Revenue

  $24,526,985

  Expenses

  $24,943,839

  Assets (EOY)

  $18,294,030

• 2018 · 990

  Revenue

  $26,378,302

  Expenses

  $24,515,066

  Assets (EOY)

  $17,545,741

• 2017 · 990

  Revenue

  $27,527,333

  Expenses

  $26,123,616

  Assets (EOY)

  $15,640,113

• 2016 · 990

  Revenue

  $25,561,376

  Expenses

  $21,592,382

  Assets (EOY)

  $14,746,440

• 2015 · 990

  Revenue

  $27,126,037

  Expenses

  $26,422,401

  Assets (EOY)

  $11,131,830

• 2014 · 990

  Revenue

  $19,026,111

  Expenses

  $16,187,016

  Assets (EOY)

  $14,485,538

• 2013 · 990

  Revenue

  $19,824,513

  Expenses

  $17,210,347

  Assets (EOY)

  $13,672,064

• 2012 · 990

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  $16,707,369

  Assets (EOY)

  $30,913,356

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

• BSF International Properties Corporation

  $300,000

  2023 · Program Support

• BSF INTERNATIONAL PROPERTIES CORPORATION

  $125,000

  2024 · ADMINISTRATIVE SUPPORT

• BSF International Properties Corp

  $30,000

  2022 · Ministry support

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Grants received

• BSF GLOBAL IMPACT CORP

  $9,400,000

  2024 · PROGRAM SUPPORT

• NATIONAL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION

  $764,220

  2024 · BIBLE TRANSLATION

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $654,523

  2024 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $605,376

  2023 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $504,810

  2022 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• NATIONAL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION

  $472,500

  2022 · GROWTH

• DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING

  $461,034

  2024 · RELIGION RELATED

• NATIONAL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION

  $456,640

  2023 · GROWTH

• DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING

  $285,722

  2022 · RELIGION RELATED

• VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM

  $279,050

  2022 · FOR RECIPIENT'S EXEMPT PURPOSE

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

Taxable family

From Schedule R Parts I, III and IV: entities that legally are the filer, and taxable partnerships, corporations and trusts it is related to. These record ownership and control, not shared board members or money.

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