Bibletelling
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 452780444
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2012–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2023
- Location
- Bloomington, IL, USA
- Phone
- 3098269491
- Rating
- 74
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Christianity
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $87,681
- Expenses
- $31,538
- Assets
- $89,525
- Liabilities
- $333
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JOHN D WALSH (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- JOHN D WALSH (PRESIDENT)
- JANICE B WALSH (SECRETARY)
- JOE HORINE (TRUSTEE)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Train in the telling of bible stories
What it reported doing in 2024
Prison ministry assist with literacy education by teaching bible stories. The bible provides moral teaching, produces positive behavioral changes, and leads to a faith in god. The literacy education has also served this past year with english as a second language (esl) working with individuals from the congo and asian communities in the us.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 95% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue comfortably covers expenses. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 59
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 76
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 35.5%; rating input score 35
- Program expense ratio: 98.6%; rating input score 99
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 64%; rating input score 94; 94th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.84; rating input score 73; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -4.8% per year; rating input score 0; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -4% per year; rating input score 0; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 4.8% per year; rating input score 100; 57th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 35.5% of revenue deployed · 98.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $31K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 12 filing years from 2012 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 35/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 32/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.