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The Foundation for Adventist Education at a glance

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The Foundation for Adventist Education

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$282k
Granted FY2024still arriving
3
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$205k
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, FY2017 to 2024.

Religion$2.9MEducation$1.7MArts & Culture$404k
02FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $7k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $275k
$70,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$15M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ANDREWS UNIVERSITY$205,000
Individual grant recipient$70,000
SOUTHWESTERN ADVENTIST UNIVERSITY$6,500
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 (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 59% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%PACIFIC PRESS PUBLISHING ASSOCIATION: $181k → 11%LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY: $24k → 14%SOUTHWESTERN ADVENTIST UNIVERSITY: $18k → 10%MUSEUM OF THE BIBLE INC: $10k → 16%INTER-AMERICAN DIVISION CORP OF SEVENTH DAY ADVENIST CHURCH: $10k → 15%ADVENTIST THEOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $200k → 15%SOUTHERN ADVENTIST UNIVERSITY: $50k → 12%FLETCHER ACADEMY: $15k → 12%FAMILY LIFE INSTITUTE DBA BIBLE IN LIVING SOUND: $35k → 11%VILLAGE ADVENTIST CHURCH: $10k → 13%SPENCERVILLE SDA CHURCH: $8k → 5%GENERAL CONFERENCE CORPORATION OF THE SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISTS: $350k → 8%SPENCERVILLE SDA CHURCH: $7k → 8%SPENCERVILLE SDA CHURCH: $7k → 8%SPENCERVILLE SDA CHURCH: $8k → 11%PACIFIC PRESS PUBLISHING ASSOCIATION: $78k → 11%SOUTHWESTERN ADVENTIST UNIVERSITY: $9k → 10%ADVENTIST THEOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $150k → 15%SOUTHERN ADVENTIST UNIVERSITY: $50k → 12%SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH WORLD HEADQUARTERS: $120k → 8%PACIFIC PRESS PUBLISHING ASSOCIATION: $60k → 11%ADVENTIST THEOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $100k → 15%SOUTHERN ADVENTIST UNIVERSITY: $43k → 12%GENERAL CONFERENCE CORPORATION OF THE SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISTS DAF: $250k → 8%ADVENTIST THEOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $100k → 15%SOUTHERN ADVENTIST UNIVERSITY: $20k → 12%FOUNDATION FOR ADVENTIST EDUCATION DONOR ADVISED FUND: $150k → 8%ADVENTIST THEOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $100k → 15%SOUTHERN ADVENTIST UNIVERSITY: $20k → 12%ADVENTIST THEOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $100k → 15%SOUTHERN ADVENTIST UNIVERSITY: $7k → 12%ADVENTIST THEOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $90k → 15%SPENCERVILLE ADVENTIST ACADEMY: $60k → 8%BERRIEN SPRINGS ADVENTIST CHRUCH: $9k → 15%SPENCERVILLE ADVENTIST ACADEMY: $50k → 8%ANDREWS UNIVERSITY: $370k → 15%SPENCERVILLE ADVENTIST ACADEMY: $50k → 8%ANDREWS UNIVERSITY: $212k → 15%SPENCERVILLE ADVENTIST ACADEMY: $20k → 8%ANDREWS UNIVERSITY: $205k → 15%ANDREWS UNIVERSITY: $125k → 15%ANDREWS UNIVERSITY: $50k → 15%ANDREWS UNIVERSITY: $50k → 15%ANDREWS UNIVERSITY: $16k → 15%ANDREWS UNIVERSITY: $13k → 15%ANDREWS UNIVERSITY: $12k → 15%ANDREWS UNIVERSITY: $9k → 15%ANDREWS UNIVERSITY: $7k → 15%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

WA
ID
MI
CA
MD
TN
NC
OK
TX
FL
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

80%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.0M · 10 repeat orgs$1.0M to everyone else

10 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
14

Total granted

$4.0M
$1.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+121%

Still filing today

30%
29%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationReligionOther
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

  • AU
    ANDREWS UNIVERSITY
    6× · 2019–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +13%
  • AT
    Adventist Theological Society
    6× · 2017–2023 · $840k · revenue +46% · 73% of their budget
  • SA
    SOUTHWESTERN ADVENTIST UNIVERSITY
    4× · 2019–2024 · $45k · revenue +34%

Funded once

  • GC
    GENERAL CONFERENCE CORPORATION OF THE SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISTS
    one grant, 2018 · $350k
  • GC
    GENERAL CONFERENCE CORPORATION OF THE SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISTS DAF
    one grant, 2019 · $250k
  • FF
    FOUNDATION FOR ADVENTIST EDUCATION DONOR ADVISED FUND
    one grant, 2020 · $150k
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
Biblical Studies Foundation
Religion
2
Restation Fellowship in Messiah

Religious studies

Religion
3
Instituto De Estudios Teologicos

Conference

Education
4
Lutheran Theological Seminary Henry Grove
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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
Asbury Theological Seminary

Asbury Theological Seminary is a community called to prepare theologically educated, sanctified, Spirit-filled men and women to evangelize and to spread scriptural holiness throughout the world through the love of Jesus Christ, in the…

Education
7
Bangor Theological Seminary
Religion
8
Western Covenant University

School

Education
9
Reformed University Inc

Provide education in theology, divinity, religious education, ministerial training, business and organizational leadership.

Education
10
North America Bible Institute

North America Bible Institute (NABI) is an evangelical graduate school, made up of students who are diverse in both ethnicity and ministry aims -- but united in great love for Jesus and his gospel. As a graduate school, NABI offers them…

Education
11
American Bible Society
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12
International Leadership Foundation for Adventist Colleges and Universities

To support the scholarship for international leadership program

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Asi Missions Inc; the most unlike its peers is Religious Education Defense Fund. 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

9 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. 9 of the 25 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/9
Grantees still filing
8/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SPENCERVILLE SDA CHURCH: $1,140,100 · OtherSPENCERVILLE SDA CHURCHAdventist Theological Society: $840,000 · OtherAdventist Theological SocietyPACIFIC PRESS PUBLISHING ASSOCIATION: $403,573 · OtherPACIFIC PRESS PUBLISHING ASSOCIATIONGENERAL CONFERENCE CORPORATION OF THE SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISTS: $350,000 · OtherGENERAL CONFERENCE CORPORATION OF THE SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISTSGENERAL CONFERENCE CORPORATION OF THE SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISTS DAF: $250,000 · OtherGENERAL CONFERENCE CORPORATION OF THE SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISTS DAFSOUTHERN ADVENTIST UNIVERSITY: $190,000 · OtherSPENCERVILLE ADVENTIST ACADEMY: $184,500 · OtherFOUNDATION FOR ADVENTIST EDUCATION DONOR ADVISED FUND: $150,000 · Other+14 more: $429,197 · Other+14 moreANDREWS UNIVERSITY: $1,081,455 · EducationANDREWS UNIVERSITY+1 more: $24,299 · EducationHart Research Center Inc: $20,000 · Religion
Other$3,937,370Education$1,105,754Religion$20,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10k$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetANDREWS UNIVERSITY: $1,081,455 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetAdventist Theological Society: $840,000 over 6y, 73% of budgetSOUTHWESTERN ADVENTIST UNIVERSITY: $45,441 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetLOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY: $24,299 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFLETCHER ACADEMY INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHart Research Center Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetMUSEUM OF THE BIBLE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRELIGIOUS EDUCATION DEFENSE FUND: $5,250 over 2y, 100% of budgetASI MISSIONS INC: $250 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.

  • Who funds ANDREWS UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Adventist Theological Society ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHWESTERN ADVENTIST UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds FLETCHER ACADEMY INC ↗
  • Who funds Hart Research Center Inc ↗
  • Who funds MUSEUM OF THE BIBLE ↗
  • Who funds RELIGIOUS EDUCATION DEFENSE FUND ↗
  • Who funds ASI MISSIONS INC ↗

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.

Asi Missions IncVersacare IncAmerican Endowment Fo…The Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Asi Missions IncMD15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Asi Missions Inc · Versacare Inc · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · 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 The Foundation for Adventist Education funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Foundation for Adventist Education. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%25%56%100%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
    2get 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 25 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-PF 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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