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Union Theological Seminary

The mission of UNION THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY, an independent, multi-denominational seminary in the city of new york, derives from a christian heritage that is at once progressive and evangelistic: to educate leaders for ministry in churches and related organizations, to extend the work of social justice and to enrich the academy through…

$3.9M
Granted FY2023
1
Grants FY2023
1
States reached
$300k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its 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 2023.

Religion$1.5MArts & Culture$180kHousing & Shelter$150kEnvironment$15kCivil Rights$15kCrime & Legal$8kRecreation & Sports$8k
02FY2023 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 1 grants below total $300,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $3,897,209 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $3,597,209 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.
$300,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$229M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NEW YORK THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY$300,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–20, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%THE FREEDOM CENTER FOR SOCIAL: $15k → 10%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.
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 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
Interfaith Worker Justice

To advance the rights of workers by engaging diverse faith communities into action, from grassroots organizing to shaping policy at the local, state and national levels. They envision a nation where all workers enjoy the rights to:…

Religion
2
Interfaith Center of Greater Philadelphia

In order to promote social harmony and inter-religious understanding, Interfaith Philadelphia equips individuals and communities for interfaith engagement, builds collaborative relationships, and stands in solidarity with our diverse…

Religion
3
Polis Institute Inc

To champion human dignity by designing the solutions to the social problems that infringe upon it.

Religion
4
Next River

Next River is an institute for practicing the future. We cultivate the research, narratives, practices, and connections that transform our cultural landscape toward collective liberation.

Social Science
5
Interfaith Works

Social justice and peace through interfaith understanding and cooperation.

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6
Bay Area Organizing Committee

A broad based network of local institutions - congregations, synagogues, non-profits and civic associations - that serve as a foundation for public relationships, leadership development and action around issues that affect our communities.

Unclassified
7
Guernica Centre for InternationalJustice

The Guernica Centre for International Justice represents the interests of victims in national and international legal proceedings, putting in place transnational accountability strategies that seek to maximize the protection of victims'…

International
8
Openplans Inc

Open plans' mission is to transform how people experience new york city's streets. open plans uses grassroots advocacy and policy change to inspire structural reforms and cultural shifts. we promote a people-first street culture that…

Public Benefit
9
New Roots Institute

New Roots Institute is a nonprofit empowering the next generation with knowledge and training to end factory farming.

Food & Nutrition
10
The Institute for Cultural Evolution

To advance political evolution in america to outgrow the hyper-partisan polarization that threatens our democracy.

Social Science
11
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
12
Peacemaker Ministries

To equip and assist christians and their churches to respond to conflict biblically.

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Nonzero Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Freedom Center for Social Justice. 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 11 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)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/9
Grantees still filing
7/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Repairers of the Breach: $1,144,000 · ReligionRepairers of the Breach+1 more: $20,000 · ReligionNEW YORK THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY: $300,000 · OtherNEW YORK THEOLOGICAL…CARDINAL EDWARD M EGAN PAVILION OF THE ST JOHN VIANNEY CLERGY RESIDENCE: $12,500 · Other+2 more: $18,000 · Other+2 moreTHE NONZERO FOUNDATION INC: $180,000 · Public BenefitTHE NONZER…PALANTE HARLEM INC: $150,000 · EducationPALANTE H…GREAT PLAINS RESTORATION COUNCIL: $15,300 · EnvironmentFreedom Center for Social Justice: $15,000 · Human ServicesEXODUS TRANSITIONAL COMMUNITY INC: $8,000 · Crime & Legal
Religion$1,164,000Other$330,500Public Benefit$180,000Education$150,000Environment$15,300Human Services$15,000Crime & Legal$8,000

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 budgetRepairers of the Breach: $1,144,000 over 4y, 21% of budgetTHE NONZERO FOUNDATION INC: $180,000 over 2y, 87% of budgetPALANTE HARLEM INC: $150,000 over 1y, 26% of budgetINTERFAITH AMERICA: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGREAT PLAINS RESTORATION COUNCIL: $15,300 over 1y, 13% of budgetFreedom Center for Social Justice: $15,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetEXODUS TRANSITIONAL COMMUNITY INC: $8,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBROADWAY MALL ASSOCIATION INC: $8,000 over 1y, 1.3% 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.

Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift FundMA5.3× affinity8 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 Union Theological Seminary funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Union Theological Seminary. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s 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 · 0–15%
    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 11 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 2023, released 2023. 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 $4.4M 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 FY2023, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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