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DEAF BIBLE SOCIETY INC

EIN 47-4285852 BROKEN ARROW, OK

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Revenue 2024
$5,207,914
Expenses 2024
$5,739,986

Program services were 86.6% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
B28
Classification
2000
Street
CO BATTLECREEK CHURCH

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

Mission

TO PROVIDE GOD'S WORD IN EVERY SIGN LANGUAGE.

  • Bridge-Broker: Bridge and broker sign Language Bible translation projects for different sign languages around the world as well as develop a strategic road map for the unreached languages.

    Expenses $3,378,986

  • Deaf Bible Engagement Platform: Engaging communities with access to Gods Word through Bible content distribution by creating innovative tools to help distribute content to Deaf communities for free and build tools that help us accomplish our mission with better quality, doing it faster, and at a lower cost.

    Expenses $1,093,201

  • Advocacy: Provide tools and resources to the hearing community that lead to awareness and education of Deaf communities and their cultures that invite activities of prayer and giving toward great commission initiatives in Sign Languages.

    Expenses $347,837

  • Deaf Community Relations: Researched what sign language/deaf-centric churches/ministries in USA.

    Expenses $149,073

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

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.

  • Chantel Pagan

    CEO

    Total calculated
    $148,924
    From this org
    $122,800
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $26,124
    Hours/week
    40

  • John Dickinson

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Richard Mack

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Grace Townsend-Goreth

    VICE CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Dave Cram

    SEC/TREAS

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Melvin Morris

    Chairman

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Mark Apodaca

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $5,207,914
    Expenses
    $5,739,986
    Contributions
    $4,970,840
    Grants paid
    $2,555,237
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $4,987,019
    Expenses
    $5,086,472
    Contributions
    $4,858,959
    Grants paid
    $1,975,855
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $4,351,553
    Expenses
    $2,809,300
    Contributions
    $4,157,898
    Grants paid
    $1,187,295

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
    $5,770,623
    Expenses
    $3,309,128
    Assets (EOY)
    $6,256,116

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $5,545,167
    Expenses
    $4,128,521
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,957,416

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $6,371,848
    Expenses
    $6,495,007
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,805,330

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $6,293,401
    Expenses
    $5,700,522
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,887,846

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,168,900
    Expenses
    $3,582,546
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,942,506

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,810,120
    Expenses
    $1,771,123
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,060,648

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,793,728
    Expenses
    $898,042
    Assets (EOY)
    $921,554

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.

Grants made

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

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

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 9 November 2026 and read 9 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.