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Fuller Theological Seminary

The seminary is a multi-denominational post-baccalaureate school of religious learning that prepares students for christian vocations through its two schools: school of mission & theology and school of psychology & marriage & family therapy.

$9.6M
Granted FY2025still arriving
94
Grants FY2025still arriving
24
States reached
$38k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2025 · 94 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 94 grants below total $1,188,940 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $9,576,401 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $8,387,461 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $16k
  • $10k–50k92 grants · $1.2M
$12,500
Median grant
24
States reached
$303M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
REAL RESOURCES INC$37,500
WORLD IMPACT$12,500
MARATHON YOUTH MINISTRY$12,500
VINEYARD USA$12,500
URBAN MINISTRIES INC$12,500
PROJECT SAVVY$12,500
ALLIANCE OF ASIAN AMERICAN BAPTISTS$12,500
THE WITNESS INC$12,500
CATHOLIC VOLUNTEER NETWORK$12,500
PACIFIC NORTHWEST CONFERENCE OF THE ECC$12,500
PRAYING PELICAN MISSIONS$12,500
NXT MOVE INC$12,500
CHRIST IN YOUTH$12,500
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF EVANGELICALS$12,500
PENTECOSTAL CHURCHES OF THE APOSTOLIC FAITH INTERNATIONAL$12,500
02The need
02

Do your dollars go where the need is?

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

show:

Your human-services grants (FY25–25, $33k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 62% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%THE DIASPORA NETWORK: $13k → 10%FUTURE OF FAITH: $13k → 9%GENERATION DISTINCT: $8k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

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US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Explore God Network
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2
Encounter Church

Church

Religion
3
The Life Connection Inc
Religion
4
Be Reconciled

We exist to provide educational and training resources for believers to love biblical unity live out reconciliation and lead reconciliation conversations

Religion
5
Raise Up Global Ministries

Raise Up Global Ministries is committed to educating Christian leaders in communities around the world. The three programs of Raise Up equip the global church by 1 Developing biblically based interactive materials and 2 Training…

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6
Unify Ministries
Religion
7
Continuum Network

Continuum Network is a religious and educational engine designed to hep Christian believers, discover, develop, and deploy their unique calling. We are coaches, consultants, and advocates for followers of Jesus who want to learn how to…

Religion
8
G2G Center

Curriculum development and distribution & Christian Leadership Training

Religion
9
Youth Conference Ministries Inc

To develop youth servant leaders who will share the message of jesus christ with their peers.

Youth Development
10
Filipino Cursillos in Christianity La
Religion
11
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
12
Reach Out Ministries Inc

Spiritual awakening and training youth leaders.

Religion

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Real Resources Inc and the most unlike its peers is Made for Pax Co. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 21 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%11%<5yr14%21%5–10yr19%16%10–20yr16%19%20–35yr13%14%35–55yr16%19%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%11%<5yr14%19%5–10yr19%16%10–20yr16%22%20–35yr13%13%35–55yr16%19%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 11% of your grantees by number, and just 11% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1%1/93
the rest of the field
13%
240,395/1,819,472

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

03the grantee network

57 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 57 of the 93 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
20
Early backer (in before they grew)
53/57
Grantees still filing
26/57
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

+45 more — $561,627 · Other+45 moreREAL RESOURCES INC — $37,500 · ReligionREAL RESOURCES INCRESTORATIVE JUSTICE INSTITUTE — $25,000 · ReligionRESTORATIVE JUSTICE INSTITUTE+26 more — $324,245 · Religion+26 moreRESCUE A GENERATION — $12,500 · EducationAXIS — $12,500 · EducationTHE SOUTHWESTERN COLLEGE — $12,500 · EducationWhats Your Forte Foundation — $12,500 · EducationNORTH PARK UNIVERSITY — $12,500 · EducationHIGH DESERT CHRISTIAN COLLEGE DBA THE VOICES SCHOOL FOR LIBERATION AND THEOLOGY — $12,500 · EducationFLAGLER COLLEGE INC — $12,500 · EducationDYNAMIC YOUTH MINISTRIES — $12,500 · Youth DevelopmentNew Life Centers of Chicagoland — $12,500 · Youth DevelopmentYOUTH FOR CHRISTUSA INC — $12,500 · Youth DevelopmentBOON MINISTRIES CORP — $12,500 · Youth DevelopmentYOUNG LIFE — $12,500 · Youth DevelopmentAZ Reach — $7,500 · Youth DevelopmentCHRISTIAN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION — $12,500 · Community ImprovementPASSION LA — $12,500 · Community ImprovementBE THE BRIDGE — $12,500 · Community ImprovementLA MISION DE SAN LUCAS — $12,500 · Human ServicesFUTURE OF FAITH — $12,500 · Human ServicesGeneration Distinct — $8,068 · Human ServicesTREEHOUSE INC — $12,500 · Health
Other$561,627Religion$386,745Education$87,500Youth Development$70,000Community Improvement$37,500Human Services$33,068Health$12,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetRESTORATIVE JUSTICE INSTITUTE — $25,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetABLAZE MINISTRIES INC — $12,500 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetDYNAMIC YOUTH MINISTRIES — $12,500 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetRESCUE A GENERATION — $12,500 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetWORLD VISION INC — $12,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetELCA YOUTH MINISTRY NETWORK — $12,500 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetTHE WITNESS INC — $12,500 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetYOUTH FOR CHRISTUSA INC — $12,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetArrabon Inc — $12,500 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetSojourners Inc — $12,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE SOUTHWESTERN COLLEGE — $12,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH PARK UNIVERSITY — $12,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPASSION LA — $12,500 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetProject Savvy — $12,500 over 1y, 6.5% of budgetCatholic Volunteer Network — $12,500 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetNATIONAL CATHOLIC NETWORK DE PASTORAL JUVENIL HISP — $12,500 over 1y, 39% of budgetCHASING JUSTICE TOGETHER FOUNDATION — $12,500 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetCENTER FOR FAITHJUSTICE INC — $12,500 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetYOUNG LIFE — $12,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChurch Planting Network Inc — $12,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetLeadership LINKS — $12,500 over 1y, 6.1% of budgetMADE FOR PAX CO — $12,495 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetYOUTH MINISTRY CONSULTANTS — $11,750 over 1y, 5.4% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

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

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Lilly Endowment IncDevos Urban Leadershi…Barnabas FoundationG II CharitiesInternational Generos…The Maclellan Foundat…World Vision IncChristian Community F…Gordon Christian TrustCalvin UniversityServant FoundationJohnson Charitable Gi…
Lilly Endowment IncIN27.3× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Lilly Endowment Inc · Devos Urban Leadership Initiative · Barnabas Foundation · G II Charities · International Generosity Foundation Trust · The Maclellan Foundation Inc · World Vision Inc · Christian Community Foundation Inc · Gordon Christian Trust · Calvin University · Servant Foundation · Johnson Charitable Gift Fund

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Fuller Theological Seminary funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

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no gov · 30%3%10%23%40%your share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    3get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 93 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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