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AMERICAN BAPTIST THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY dba AMERICAN BAPTIST COLLEGE

AMERICAN BAPTIST THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY dba AMERICAN BAPTIST COLLEGE (Tennessee) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,667,221 to it, the largest being LILLY ENDOWMENT INC ($4,649,994). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$8.8M
Revenue FY2025
15
Funders on record
$5.7M
Grants received
$7.3M
Net assets
8/15 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 34%

Against its field

AMERICAN BAPTIST THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY dba AMERICAN BAPTIST COLLEGE runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 9,072 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin14% · above the median
Months of reserve3.2mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)8% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,072 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($4.6M) Expenses 100 ($4.3M) Net assets 100 ($3.4M)2018 Revenue 119 ($5.5M) Expenses 99 ($4.2M) Net assets 138 ($4.7M)2019 Revenue 87 ($4.0M) Expenses 101 ($4.3M) Net assets 130 ($4.4M)2020 Revenue 104 ($4.8M) Expenses 102 ($4.4M) Net assets 141 ($4.8M)2021 Revenue 112 ($5.2M) Expenses 105 ($4.5M) Net assets 162 ($5.6M)2022 Revenue 170 ($7.9M) Expenses 145 ($6.2M) Net assets 211 ($7.3M)2023 Revenue 132 ($6.1M) Expenses 162 ($6.9M) Net assets 168 ($5.8M)2024 Revenue 130 ($6.0M) Expenses 140 ($6.0M) Net assets 177 ($6.1M)2025 Revenue 190 ($8.8M) Expenses 178 ($7.6M) Net assets 212 ($7.3M)
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Revenue (190)Expenses (178)Net assets (212)Peer revenue range

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 48% · 2018 47% · 2019 59% · 2020 45% · 2021 59% · 2022 89% · 2023 76% · 2024 66% · 2025 46%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

53% of AMERICAN BAPTIST THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY dba AMERICAN BAPTIST COLLEGE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,312 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$371k
17
$1.3M
18
$283k
19
$441k
20
$711k
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$1.7M
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$783k
23
$61k
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$1.2M
25
3.2
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 8 funders, grant income fell $1.6M → $107k.

3 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)8% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of AMERICAN BAPTIST THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY dba AMERICAN BAPTIST COLLEGE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How concentrated its funding is

AMERICAN BAPTIST THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY dba AMERICAN BAPTIST COLLEGE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 82% of grant income and the top three 91%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

82%
largest funder
91%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 98% · 2018 59% · 2019 95% · 2020 51% · 2021 42% · 2022 30% · 2023 33%diversifying over time.

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How long its funders stay

67% of AMERICAN BAPTIST THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY dba AMERICAN BAPTIST COLLEGE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

AMERICAN BAPTIST THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY dba AMERICAN BAPTIST COLLEGE draws 89% of its grant income from funders outside Tennessee, across 4 states in all.

NY
IN
TN
AL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Tennessee out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $435k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 statesis excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 15 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Government funding AMERICAN BAPTIST THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY dba AMERICAN BAPTIST COLLEGE receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $25.4M on record.

Federal$25.4M
grants $25.4Mcontracts $0
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Top agencies
  • Department of Education$22.4M
  • Department of Commerce$3.0M

Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.

Organizations like AMERICAN BAPTIST THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY dba AMERICAN BAPTIST COLLEGE

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Tennessee

Nationally

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

36% of spending goes to programs.

Program 36%Management 64%Fundraising 0%

Governance

20
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for AMERICAN BAPTIST THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY dba AMERICAN BAPTIST COLLEGE: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.

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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds AMERICAN BAPTIST THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY dba AMERICAN BAPTIST COLLEGE?
AMERICAN BAPTIST THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY dba AMERICAN BAPTIST COLLEGE (Tennessee) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,667,221 to it, the largest being LILLY ENDOWMENT INC ($4,649,994). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does AMERICAN BAPTIST THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY dba AMERICAN BAPTIST COLLEGE have?
IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $5,667,221 in grants to AMERICAN BAPTIST THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY dba AMERICAN BAPTIST COLLEGE, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of AMERICAN BAPTIST THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY dba AMERICAN BAPTIST COLLEGE?
LILLY ENDOWMENT INC is the largest funder on record, with $4,649,994 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like AMERICAN BAPTIST THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY dba AMERICAN BAPTIST COLLEGE find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Tennessee. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 15funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing