School Time Bible Ministries
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 812209704
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2021–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- West Columbia, SC, USA
- Phone
- 800-851-8179
- Rating
- 56
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Single Organization Support
- Affiliation
- Religious (unspecified)
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $339,384
- Expenses
- $419,445
- Assets
- $31,521
- Liabilities
- $168,072
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
1 person listed
Executive titles in this filing
- SILAS G HARTGROVE (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
People named in this filing
- SILAS G HARTGROVE (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
School Time Bible Ministries (STBM) provides off-campus Biblical teaching to public school children in partnership with parents, public schools, churches, and ministry partners; with signed parental permission, students may leave school property to attend Bible classes. School Time Bible Ministries exists to provide biblical teaching to public school children. Students with parental permission, may leave school property to attend off-campus Bible classes at a nearby church. How does it work? School Time Bible Ministries creates partnerships between churches and local schools to help students explore the history, truths and life applications found throughout the Bible. This is accomplished by informing Bible believing churches about this ministry opportunity and providing training, curriculum and resources.
What it reported doing in 2025
Provide off campus bible teaching during the school day as an oulet for public school students to deal with life issues
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% 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
MIXED - 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: 44
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Accountability: 30
- Sustainability: 14
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 51%; rating input score 51
- Program expense ratio: 41.3%; rating input score 41
- Fundraising efficiency: $4.07 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: Limited
- Governance controls: 5 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 71
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -23.6%; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.08; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 5.33; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -2.2% per year; rating input score 0; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 10.3% per year; rating input score 100; 70th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -28.6% per year; rating input score 0; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 programs and campaigns described on the official site
- Where the money goes: 51% of revenue deployed · 41.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 5 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $173K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 1 people listed
- Consistency: 19 of 20 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 to 2025
- 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.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 51/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 41/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 17/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 10/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 6/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 1/100.