Biblical Foundations for Freedom Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
260519705
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2013–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Phone
7249946156
Rating
36
Verdict
REVIEW
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Religion Related N.E.C.
Affiliation
Christianity

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$88,513
Expenses
$76,269
Assets
$39,322
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

3 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Paul Bucknell (President)

People named in this filing

  • Paul Bucknell (President)
  • Philip Chang (Treasurer)
  • Hugo Cheng (Secretary)

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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Glorify God by supplying Biblically-based and graphically-enhanced training material that is used by the Holy Spirit to spring up renewal among His people and train leaders around the world so that the Great Commission is fulfilled. (1) Distributing Christian Training Materials to people all around the world through training, sales, free material, the web, etc. (2) Developing Christian Training Materials for web and slides in English and international languages. (3) Aims to hold 3-6 3-day national and international leadership training seminars, including scholarships, as needed, for travel, food, lodging, and social needs-from our Love charity fund which helps carry out the show of our faith to those we teach.

What it reported doing in 2025

BFF provided free web access to thousands of pages, which were viewed worldwide by 8.5 million people, and distributed training and digital resources (books/videos/courses), including free access to our special global Seed Project.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 95% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.

The verdict

REVIEW - The filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 0
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 49
  • Growth: 20

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 0%; rating input score 0
  • Program expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 13.8%; rating input score 65; 65th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.52; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 23.6%; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -16.2% per year; rating input score 0; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -0.5% per year; rating input score 0; 47th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 6.7% per year; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed · 0% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
  • Consistency: 8 of 9 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 12 filing years from 2013 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • 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.

  • High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 0/100.
  • High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III transfer expenses within program total did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 32/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 7/100.