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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 FY2024still arriving
1
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$25k
Largest
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01What it funds
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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
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 1 grants below total $25,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $41,025 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $16,025 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$25,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$19M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AEGIS AMERICA INC$25,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 92% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%ALLIANCE FOR GLOBAL JUSTICE: $30k → 15%RUBY PICTURES INC: $10k → 22%GLIDE FOUNDATION: $10k → 10%SEVA PRODUCTIONS INC: $7k → 14%RUTGERS PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $20k → 17%WOMEN'S MARCH NETWORK: $10k → 20%AEGIS AMERICA INC: $25k → 16%SOUTHWEST ORGANIZING PROJECT: $10k → 14%THE ALTERNATIVE TRIBE INC: $10k → 17%MANY VOICES: $100k → 14%PENTECOSTAL THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY: $9k → 13%CHARITY WOODS: $10k → 8%EBENEZER BAPTIST CHURCH: $10k → 13%SAMUEL DEWITT PROCTOR CONFERENCE: $10k → 14%DREW UNIVERSITY: $18k → 4%ALLIANCE FOR GLOBAL JUSTICE: $17k → 15%FRACTURED ATLAS FISCAL SPONSOR OF FAITH MATTERS NETWORK LLC: $14k → 17%MANY VOICES: $25k → 14%RUTGERS PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $20k → 17%MIDDLE COLLEGIATE CHURCH: $10k → 17%BEND THE ARC A JEWISH PARTNERSHIP FOR JUSTICE: $50k → 17%RUTGERS PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $20k → 17%MIDDLE COLLEGIATE CHURCH: $10k → 17%NEW SANCTUARY COALITION PLANNED ENCAMPMENT: $10k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
PA
NJ
CA
AZ
NM
AR
TN
DC
GA
TX
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 5% of Auburn Theological Seminary’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Auburn Theological Seminarylessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

52%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$252k · 4 repeat orgs$233k to everyone else

4 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
16

Total granted

$252k
$208k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-25%
+18%

Still filing today

50%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • MV
    MANY VOICES
    2× · 2022–2023 · $125k · revenue -98%
  • RP
    RUTGERS PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
    3× · 2018–2020 · $60k
  • Alliance for Global Justice Corp
    2× · 2020–2021 · $47k · revenue -25%

Funded once

  • BEND THE ARC - A JEWISH PARTNERSHIP FOR JUSTICEgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue +170%
  • DU
    DREW UNIVERSITYgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $18k · revenue +26%
  • FRACTURED ATLAS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $14k · revenue +63%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Transform Network Inc

Our mission is to resource, train, and mobilize people and communities of faith to discern and join what God is already doing in the world with tranformational church and social justice.

Religion
2
Forward Together

Forward Together is a national reproductive justice organization that centers people, families, and communities who experience reproductive oppression. They prioritize queer, trans, Black, Indigenous, and other peoples of color and utilize…

Health
3
Jobs with Justice San Francisco

A long-term, strategic alliance of labor, community, faith-based, and student organizations working together to build greater economic power for workers and community members through employee rights at work and access to good jobs,…

Employment
4
Justice Funders

Serve as a partner, educator, and guide for philanthropy in reimagining practices that advance a thriving and just world.

—
5
Equality Now Inc

To achieve legal and systematic change that addresses violence and discrimination against women and girls around the world.

International
6
Aclu Foundation of Texas Inc

The ACLU Foundation of Texas is the unyielding guardian and promoter of freedom, justice, equality and dignity of all people, particularly for those who are still fighting to secure the full exercise of their civil rights and liberties.…

Civil Rights
7
National Black Justice Coalition Inc

The national black justice coalition (nbjc) is a civil rights organization dedicated to the empowerment of black lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer (lgbtq+) and same-gender loving (sgl) people, including people living with…

Civil Rights
8
American Civil Liberties Union of Texas Inc

The ACLU of Texas works with communities, at the State Capitol, and in the courts to protect and advance civil rights and civil liberties for every Texan, no exceptions.

—
9
National Black Womens Justice Institite Inc
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10
Global Philanthropy Project Inc

Global Philanthropy Project (GPP or the Organization) is a collaboration of funders and philanthropic advisors working to expand global philanthropic support to advance the human rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex…

Philanthropy
11
Fund for Justice

Fund for Justice is a nationally connected social impact research and advocacy organization that works to achieve fundamental, systemic reform by addressing policies and practicies that prevent individuals from reaching their full…

Crime & Legal
12
Just Associates Inc

To promote social justice, gender equality and human rights on an international basis.

Civil Rights
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Alliance for Global Justice Corp; the most unlike its peers is Womens March Network. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

12 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 21 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/12
Grantees still filing
7/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MANY VOICES: $125,000 · OtherMANY VOICESRUTGERS PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $60,000 · OtherRUTGERS PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHMINISTER ELDERS AND DEACONS OF THE REFORMED PROTESTANT DUTCH CHURCH O: $20,000 · OtherMINISTER ELDERS AND DEACONS OF THE REFORMED PROTESTANT DUTCH CHUR…CHARITY WOODS: $10,000 · OtherWomens March Network: $10,000 · OtherRUBY PICTURES INC: $10,000 · OtherEBENEZER BAPTIST CHURCH: $10,000 · OtherTHE ALTERNATIVE TRIBE INC: $10,000 · OtherJUDSON MEMORIAL CHURCH INC: $10,000 · Other+2 more: $16,000 · Other+2 moreAegis America Inc: $25,000 · EducationAegis Americ…DREW UNIVERSITY: $18,000 · EducationDREW UNIVERS…Southern Methodist University: $9,500 · EducationSouthern Met…BEND THE ARC - A JEWISH PARTNERSHIP FOR JUSTICE: $50,000 · PhilanthropyBEND THE AR…Alliance for Global Justice Corp: $46,781 · InternationalAlliance f…TEXAS FREEDOM NETWORK EDUCATION FUND: $10,000 · Civil RightsSOUTHWEST ORGANIZING PROJECT: $10,000 · Civil RightsSAMUEL DEWITT PROCTOR CONFERENCE INC: $10,000 · ReligionGLIDE FOUNDATION: $10,000 · ReligionFRACTURED ATLAS INC: $14,250 · Arts & Culture
Other$281,000Education$52,500Philanthropy$50,000International$46,781Civil Rights$20,000Religion$20,000Arts & Culture$14,250

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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 FundTides FoundationThe Ford FoundationRockefeller Philanthr…Jewish Communal FundAmerican Endowment Fo…National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Auburn Theological Seminary funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Auburn Theological Seminary. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Drew University: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

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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