Public Charity

The Word for the World USA

The Word for the World USA is a Public Charity headquartered in Colorado Springs, CO. Financial data from the 2025 filing: $12.8M revenue, $12.7M expenses, $5.5M total assets. 27 publicly reported grants to this organization, totaling roughly $27.1M, appear in IRS filings.

EIN: 841426685 Colorado Springs, CO Christianity NTEE: X20 Latest filing: 2025
Total Revenue$12.8M
Total Expenses$12.7M
Total Assets$5.5M
Grant Records27
Funding Total$27.1M
Filing Years2021–2025

Mission

The mission of the Word for the World is to enable persons, ministries and organizations from language communities that do not have the Bible in their own language yet to take responsibility for Bible translation and related activities and to ensure its availability. (cont. Sch. O)The Word for the World trains nationals in the required skills and provides them with the support they need to accurately translate God's Word into their primary language. The Organization partners with others to print and distribute the newly translated Scripture, and promote literacy and Scripture engagement where needed. The Word for the World has more than 40 years of experience in Bible translation, and its unique, mobile training program results in Bibles that are among the most accurate, readily accepted, cost effective and timely Bible translations in the world.

Where $100 goes at The Word for the World USA

How The Word for the World USA divides every $100 it spends, from its own Form 990 filings, averaged across 9 years.

$87 Programs the work itself
$7 Management running the organization
$6 Fundraising raising the next dollar

Inside the $87 for programs

$87
Recruiting, training and assisting bible translators working in languages into which the bibles has never been translated
All program spending
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Source: Form 990 filings with the IRS, latest fiscal year 2025. Shares are from the organization's reported expenses. Data by Imperigo; not affiliated with the IRS.

Officers & Directors

CEO Christiaan De Wet
Board Member Elroy Bosch
Board Member Kobus Van Aswegen
COO Martin Rediger
Chairman Randy Welsch
Board Member Steve Ingham

Officer compensation and complete director data available with membership.

Top Grant Purposes

Religion & Spirituality
$26,430,979 22 grants
General Support
$650,650 5 grants

Financial Trends

Year Revenue Expenses Assets
2025 $12.8M $12.7M $5.5M
2024 $11.2M $11.8M $5.3M
2023 $11.6M $9.6M $5.9M
2022 $9.7M $7.4M $6.4M
2021 $5.5M $4.9M $4.1M

Between 2021 and 2025, reported annual revenue grew from $5.5M to $12.8M (+134%), with total assets most recently reported at $5.5M.

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