Illinois · Nonprofit
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF TYNDALE HOUSE CAMBRIDGE INC
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF TYNDALE HOUSE CAMBRIDGE INC (Illinois) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,738,826 to it, the largest being Servant Foundation ($4,010,000). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 89% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.5M
- Funders on record
- 22
- Grants received
- $8.7M
- Net assets
- $775k
What American Friends of Tyndale House Cambridge Inc does
Mission
To promote the science of biblical research by providing funding and support for expeditions, education, investigation, research, and publication or any other activity in any sphere as may be deemed necessary for elucidation of the historical biblical period.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Funding of tyndale house in cambridge, england - tyndale house is a world-leading center for biblical scholarship. Its focus is to develop the next generation of bible experts to serve the church, the academy, and the world. At its core, tyndale house is a residential research library-a safe place for serious, in-depth study of the bible. Scholars from around the world come to study and live at the premier library in cambridge, england. The scholars and publications that have come from tyndale house since its founding in 1944 have had a worldwide impact, and all major modern protestant bible translations have benefited significantly from the input of scholars associated with tyndale house. Tyndale house research staff teach in universities and present lectures and conferences across the uk, europe and north america.
$2,605,238 spentof which $2,520,000 as grants$5,934 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,605,238.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $577k to $3.3M (+471%).
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.
100% of AMERICAN FRIENDS OF TYNDALE HOUSE CAMBRIDGE INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (90% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Mr Steve Oman
Chairman/executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018, and between the FY2018 and FY2019 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 6 funders to 4 funders, grant income fell $409k → $169k.
11 of 22 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 89% 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 FRIENDS OF TYNDALE HOUSE CAMBRIDGE INC’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 FRIENDS OF TYNDALE HOUSE CAMBRIDGE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% of grant income and the top three 84%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
97% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund AMERICAN FRIENDS OF TYNDALE HOUSE CAMBRIDGE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 54% · 2018 83% · 2019 76% · 2020 51% · 2021 80% · 2022 96% · 2023 91% — growing more concentrated.
“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
36% of AMERICAN FRIENDS OF TYNDALE HOUSE CAMBRIDGE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% give in more than one year at all.
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
89% of AMERICAN FRIENDS OF TYNDALE HOUSE CAMBRIDGE INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $981k that is directly attributable, 94% of it comes from funders outside Illinois, across 6 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $7.8M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 states is 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.
Against its field
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF TYNDALE HOUSE CAMBRIDGE INC has grown faster than half of the 1,211 religion nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,211 religion nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
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In Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
96% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
94%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF TYNDALE HOUSE CAMBRIDGE INC?
- AMERICAN FRIENDS OF TYNDALE HOUSE CAMBRIDGE INC (Illinois) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,738,826 to it, the largest being Servant Foundation ($4,010,000). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 89% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does AMERICAN FRIENDS OF TYNDALE HOUSE CAMBRIDGE INC have?
- IRS filings report 22 organizations giving $8,738,826 in grants to AMERICAN FRIENDS OF TYNDALE HOUSE CAMBRIDGE INC, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AMERICAN FRIENDS OF TYNDALE HOUSE CAMBRIDGE INC?
- Servant Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $4,010,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AMERICAN FRIENDS OF TYNDALE HOUSE CAMBRIDGE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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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 22 funders 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 October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing