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Auburn Theological Seminary

AUBURN THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY identifies and strengthens leaders from the pulpit to the public square to build community, bridge divides, pursue justice, and heal the world.

$41k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
1
Itemized grants FY2024
2
Organizations funded FY2023
50%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2024
$25k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024
$25,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$25,000
Organizations funded a year
2 to 7
FY2018 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$19M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 50% of the organizations Auburn Theological Seminary funded were first-time grantees, receiving 9% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’19’20’21’22’23
EducationCivil RightsReligionPhilanthropyInternationalArts & CultureOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving1$25k100%
FY20232$110k50%
FY20225$65k100%
FY20217$123k86%
FY20205$81k80%
FY20194$50k50%
FY20182$30kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Civil Rights$235kEducation$70kPhilanthropy$50kReligion$29kPublic Benefit$25kInternational$25kArts & Culture$24kCrime & Legal$20kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
PA
NJ
CA
AZ
NM
AR
TN
DC
GA
TX

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Many Voices$125,000216%
Rutgers Presbyterian Church$60,0003n/a
Bend the Arc - a Jewish Partnership for Justice$50,00011%
Alliance for Global Justice Corp$46,78120%
Aegis America Inc$25,000110%
Minister Elders and Deacons of the Reformed Protestant Dutch Church O$20,0002n/a
Drew University$18,00010%
Fractured Atlas Inc$14,25010%
Charity Woods$10,0001n/a
Womens March Network$10,0001n/a
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All grantees of Auburn Theological Seminary by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Many Voices$125,000216%
Rutgers Presbyterian Church$60,0003n/a
Bend the Arc - a Jewish Partnership for Justice$50,00011%
Alliance for Global Justice Corp$46,78120%
Aegis America Inc$25,000110%
Minister Elders and Deacons of the Reformed Protestant Dutch Church O$20,0002n/a
Drew University$18,00010%
Fractured Atlas Inc$14,25010%
Charity Woods$10,0001n/a
Womens March Network$10,0001n/a
Texas Freedom Network Education Fund$10,00010%
Southwest Organizing Project$10,00011%
Samuel Dewitt Proctor Conference Inc$10,00011%
Ruby Pictures Inc$10,0001n/a
Ebenezer Baptist Church$10,0001n/a
The Alternative Tribe Inc$10,0001n/a
Judson Memorial Church Inc$10,0001n/a
Glide Foundation$10,0001n/a
Southern Methodist University$9,50010%
Pentecostal Theological Seminary a Church of God Ministry$9,0001n/a
Seva Productions Inc$7,0001n/a

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Auburn Theological Seminary supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMany Voices: $125,000 over 2y, 16% of budgetBend the Arc - a Jewish Partnership for Justice: $50,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetAlliance for Global Justice Corp: $46,781 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetAegis America Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 9.8% of budgetDrew University: $18,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFractured Atlas Inc: $14,250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTexas Freedom Network Education Fund: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSouthwest Organizing Project: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSamuel Dewitt Proctor Conference Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetSouthern Methodist University: $9,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 10.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

New Venture FundDC14.5× affinity5 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: New Venture Fund · Tides Foundation · The Ford Foundation · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Auburn Theological Seminary

How much does Auburn Theological Seminary give?
Auburn Theological Seminary reported 1 itemized grants totaling $25,000, out of $41,025 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 7 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.
What does Auburn Theological Seminary fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2024, its largest causes are Civil Rights (48%), Education (14%), Philanthropy (10%).
Who are Auburn Theological Seminary's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2024: Many Voices ($125k), Rutgers Presbyterian Church ($60k), Bend the Arc - a Jewish Partnership for Justice ($50k).
Does Auburn Theological Seminary fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Auburn Theological Seminary?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include New Venture Fund, Tides Foundation, The Ford Foundation.
Where is Auburn Theological Seminary based?
Auburn Theological Seminary is based in NY.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 21 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $27k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2024, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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