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Dallas Theological Seminary

The mission of Dallas Theological Seminary is to glorify God by equipping godly servant-leaders for the proclamation of His Word and the building up of the body of Christ worldwide.

$7.7M
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$28k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

70% of Dallas Theological Seminary’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Dallas Seminary Foundation, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 3 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2024, the last year Dallas Theological Seminary named its own grantees at scale: 7 organizations, $94k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

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’21
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’25

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Religion$441kEducation$213kInternational$33kFood & Nutrition$10kOther$0
02FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 7 grants below total $94,287, the rows itemized in this filing. The $7,703,534 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $7,609,247 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.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $22k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $73k
$10,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$156M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Chosen People Ministries$27,500
Inspire Women$20,000
Center for Women in Leadership$15,070
Feed My Starving Children$10,000
Peace International$7,622
WorldVenture$7,145
Evangelical Press Assoc$6,950
02The need
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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:

Its human-services grants (FY24–24, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Peace International: $8k → 8%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
OR
CO
AZ
AR
NC
SC
GA
TX

Grants abroad, by region: $1.9M on the FY2025 return

Schedule F, as filed: 8 regions, $371k to organizations and $1.6M to individuals. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

Sub-Saharan Africa$748k · 39% · 1 grant · 42 people

Stated purpose: General Support · Tuition discount

East Asia and the Pacific$363k · 19% · 108 people

Stated purpose: Tuition discount

Europe (including Iceland and Greenland)$237k · 12% · 44 people

Stated purpose: Tuition discount

South America$195k · 10% · 81 people

Stated purpose: Tuition discount

Middle East and North Africa$118k · 6% · 14 people

Stated purpose: Tuition discount

Central America and the Caribbean$97k · 5% · 31 people

Stated purpose: Tuition discount

North America (Canada and Mexico)$94k · 5% · 39 people

Stated purpose: Tuition discount

South Asia$79k · 4% · 10 people

Stated purpose: Tuition discount

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.
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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 18% of Dallas Theological Seminary’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Dallas Theological Seminarylessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 4.6% directed abroad (not shown)
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 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.

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Christianity Today International

Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.

Religion
2
International Leadership Institute

The international leadership institute (ili) changes history by accelerating the spread of the gospel through training and mobilizing leaders of leaders to reach their nations. ili accomplishes this purpose through cutting edge leadership…

Religion
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International Christian Publishers

Religious corp, charitable, educational and cultural, conduct all activities relate to publishingchristian literature

Religion
4
Lx Ministries Inc

Our mission is to multiply the global impact and influence of Christian leaders and pastors throughout their organizations and communities. Our activities involve working with members of the leadership of other exclusively charitable…

Religion
5
Evangelism Partners International
Religion
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Leadership Resources International

International missions: this organization is an international mission agency focusing on leadership development through teaching of the scriptures

Religion
7
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community

Christian Mission for the United Nations Community is a ministry aimed at leading the head of every nation and other top leaders to faith in Jesus Christ and helping them to walk in dependence upon God as they discharge the…

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8
Clc Ministries International

To make evangelical Christian literature available to all nations so that people may come to faith and maturity in Jesus Christ

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9
Leadership Revolution Inc

Leadership Revolution is a ministry founded to develop leaders globally who will spread the gospel and make disciples in their arena of influence.

Religion
10
Global City Missions Initiative Incorporated

Global City Mission Initiative is dedicated to cross-cultural evanglism, disciplemaking, church planting among diverse diaspora populations in strategic cities reaching out evangelistically to start multiply churches, training believers to…

Religion
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Discipling Marketplace Leaders

To empower the local church to establish and run successful Marketplace Ministries, empowering, equipping, encouraging and discipling business owners.

International
12
Forum of Christian Leaders

The Forum of Christian Leaders (FOCL) exists to unite, equip, and resource global evangelical leaders toward the end of world evangelism and the renewal of the Biblical church.

Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The New York City Leadership Center Inc; the most unlike its peers is Peace International. 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

11 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. 11 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
4/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CHOSEN PEOPLE MINISTRIES INC: $192,500 · OtherCHOSEN PEOPLE MINISTRIES INCSIM USA INCORPORATED: $45,000 · OtherSIM USA INCORPORATEDUnited World Missions: $25,000 · OtherUnited World MissionsCHRISTIAN LEADERSHIP ALLIANCE: $14,000 · Other+2 more: $14,645 · OtherDallas Seminary Foundation: $140,000 · EducationDallas Seminary FoundationINSPIRE WOMEN: $30,000 · EducationINSPIRE WOMENThe New York City Leadership Center Inc: $20,000 · EducationThe New York City Leadership C…MOVEMENT DAY GREATER DALLAS DBA MOVEMENT DFW: $100,000 · ReligionMOVEMENT DAY GREAT…CENTER FOR WOMEN IN LEADERSHIP: $15,070 · ReligionCENTER FOR WOMEN I…ILLUMINATIONS FOUNDATION INC: $60,000 · PhilanthropyILLUMINAT…OPPORTUNITY INTERNATIONAL INC D/B/A OPPORTUNITY INTERNATIONAL-US: $22,579 · InternationalFEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC: $10,000 · InternationalPEACE INTERNATIONAL: $7,622 · Human ServicesEVANGELICAL PRESS ASSOCIATION INC: $6,950 · Arts & Culture
Other$291,145Education$190,000Religion$115,070Philanthropy$60,000International$32,579Human Services$7,622Arts & Culture$6,950

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDallas Seminary Foundation: $140,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetILLUMINATIONS FOUNDATION INC: $60,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetINSPIRE WOMEN: $30,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetOPPORTUNITY INTERNATIONAL INC D/B/A OPPORTUNITY INTERNATIONAL-US: $22,579 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe New York City Leadership Center Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCENTER FOR WOMEN IN LEADERSHIP: $15,070 over 1y, 8.6% of budgetCHRISTIAN LEADERSHIP ALLIANCE: $14,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetFEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPEACE INTERNATIONAL: $7,622 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetEVANGELICAL PRESS ASSOCIATION INC: $6,950 over 1y, 2.8% 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.

Natl Christian Charit…National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Natl Christian Charitable Fdn IncGA9.7× affinity6 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · 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 Dallas Theological Seminary funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Dallas Theological Seminary. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
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no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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