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Christians for Biblical Equality

See schedule o.CHRISTIANS FOR BIBLICAL EQUALITY (cbe), www.cbeinternational.org, is a 501c3 nonprofit organization comprised of individuals, churches, colleges, seminaries, and organizations, representing more than 100 different denominations in 214 countries and territories.

$18k
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$3k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Education$111k
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$3,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$735k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NORTHERN BAPTIST THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY$3,000
ROBERTS WESLEYAN SEMINARY$3,000
BETHEL UNIVERSITY$3,000
WHEATON COLLEGE$3,000
FULLER THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY$3,000
SAMFORD UNIVERSITY$3,000
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 (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 66% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%GORDON-CONWELL THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY: $6k → 10%BETHEL UNIVERSITY: $3k → 14%PALMER THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY: $3k → 6%BIOLA UNIVERSITY: $6k → 14%ROBERTS WESLEYAN SEMINARY: $3k → 14%NYACK COLLEGE: $6k → 14%PALM BEACH ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY: $6k → 11%SAMFORD UNIVERSITY: $3k → 16%NAZARENE THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY: $6k → 15%GEORGE FOX UNIVERSITY: $6k → 11%WESTERN SEMINARY: $6k → 12%DUKE DIVINITY SCHOOL: $3k → 11%EMORY UNIVERSITY: $6k → 14%WHEATON COLLEGE: $6k → 7%NAZARENE THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY: $3k → 15%GEORGE FOX UNIVERSITY: $6k → 11%WHEATON COLLEGE: $3k → 7%NORTHERN BAPTIST THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY: $12k → 7%NORTHERN BAPTIST THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY: $3k → 7%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

MN
IL
NY
MA
OR
PA
CA
MO
NC
AL
GA
FL

Grants abroad, by region: $22k on the FY2025 return

Schedule F, as filed: 1 region, $14k to organizations and $8k to individuals. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

Sub-Saharan Africa$22k · 100% · 2 grants · 1 person

Stated purpose: PROMOTE CBE MESSAGE/EVANGELICAL CHURCH LEADERS CONFERENCE AND TRAINING WORKSHOPS · PROMOTE CBE MESSAGE/EVANGELICAL CHURCH LEADERS CONFERENCE AND TRAINING WORKSHOPS.

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. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

50%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$51k · 4 repeat orgs$51k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +31% since the first grant, against +16% for those funded once.

4 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
8

Total granted

$51k
$42k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+16%

Still filing today

50%
88%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 40% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time
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

  • FT
    FULLER THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY
    3× · 2020–2025 · $15k · revenue +18%
  • NB
    NORTHERN BAPTIST THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY
    2× · 2022–2025 · $15k
  • GF
    GEORGE FOX UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2019–2023 · $12k · revenue +31%

Funded once

  • AU
    ALLIANCE UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2022 · $6k · revenue -4%
  • BU
    BIOLA UNIVERSITY INC
    one grant, 2021 · $6k · revenue +19%
  • PB
    PALM BEACH ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $6k · revenue +46%
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
East Texas Baptist University

East texas baptist university (etbu) was founded in 1912 as a fully accredited institution of higher education. affiliated with the baptist general convention of texas, etbu educates students by integrating biblical faith and learning to…

Education
2
Trinity University

Trinity university is an independent co-educational university whose mission is excellence in the interrelated areas of teaching, research and services.

Education
3
Union University

Union university provides christ-centered education that promotes excellence and character development in service to church and society.

Education
4
John Brown University

John brown university (jbu) provides christ-centered education that prepares students to honor god and serve others by developing their intellectual, spiritual, and professional lives. (continued on schedule o)jbu serves traditional…

Education
5
Regent University

Regent University serves as a center of Christian thought and action to provide excellent education through a Biblical perspective and global context equipping Christian leaders to change the world.

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6
Evangel University

Evangel is a comprehensive christian university that is committed to excellence in educating and equipping students to become spirit empowered servants of god who will impact the church and society globally.

Education
7
Houghton University

Houghton university provides an academically challenging, christ-centered education in the liberal arts and sciences to students from diverse traditions and economic backgrounds and equips them to lead and labor as scholar-servants in a…

Education
8
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
9
University of the South

The College of Arts and Sciences is committed to the development of the whole person through a liberal arts education of the highest quality. The School of Theology educates women and men to serve the broad whole of the Episcopal Church in…

Education
10
Excelsior University

Excelsior University provides educational opportunity to adult learners with an emphasis on those historically underrepresented in higher education. The University meets students where they are - academically and geographically, offering…

Education
11
Whitworth University

Since 1890, whitworth has held fast to its founding mission of providing "an education of mind and heart" through rigorous intellectual inquiry guided by dedicated christian scholars.

Education
12
Saint Xavier University

Saint xavier university, a catholic institution inspired by the heritage of the sisters of mercy, educates persons to search for truth, think critically, communicate effectively and serve wisely and compassionately in support of human…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Eastern University; the most unlike its peers is Biola University Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

13 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. 13 of the 16 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
9/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FULLER THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY: $15,000 · EducationFULLER THEOLOGICAL SEMINARYGEORGE FOX UNIVERSITY: $12,000 · EducationGEORGE FOX UNIVERSITYWheaton College: $9,000 · EducationWheaton CollegeALLIANCE UNIVERSITY: $6,000 · EducationALLIANCE UNIVERSITYBIOLA UNIVERSITY INC: $6,000 · EducationBIOLA UNIVERSITY INCPALM BEACH ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY INC: $6,000 · EducationPALM BEACH ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY INCEmory University: $6,000 · EducationEmory UniversityGordon-Conwell Theological Seminary Inc: $6,000 · EducationGordon-Conwell Theological Seminary IncROBERTS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: $3,000 · EducationDUKE UNIVERSITY: $3,000 · EducationBETHEL UNIVERSITY: $3,000 · EducationEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $3,000 · EducationSamford University: $3,000 · EducationNORTHERN BAPTIST THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY: $15,000 · OtherNORTHERN BAPTIST THEOLOGICAL S…NAZARENE THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY: $9,000 · OtherNAZARENE THEOLOGICAL SEMINARYWESTERN SEMINARY: $6,000 · OtherWESTERN SEMINARY
Education$81,000Other$30,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFULLER THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGEORGE FOX UNIVERSITY: $12,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWheaton College: $9,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetALLIANCE UNIVERSITY: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBIOLA UNIVERSITY INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPALM BEACH ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEmory University: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGordon-Conwell Theological Seminary Inc: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROBERTS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBETHEL UNIVERSITY: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSamford University: $3,000 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.

Lilly Endowment IncNatl Christian Charit…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Lilly Endowment IncIN17.3× affinity6 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Lilly Endowment Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · 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 Christians for Biblical Equality funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Christians for Biblical Equality. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • George Fox University: 3% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
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 16 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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