Delaware · Nonprofit
ASSOCIATION OF BOARDS IN THEOLOGICAL EDUCATION
ASSOCIATION OF BOARDS IN THEOLOGICAL EDUCATION (Delaware) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $144,000 to it, the largest being M J MURDOCK CHARITABLE TRUST ($144,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.2M
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $144k
- Net assets
- $21M
What Association of Boards in Theological Education does
Mission
The in trust center for theological school's mission is to strengthen theological schools by connecting their leaders to essential resources for mission vitality.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Magazine: in trust magazine is our quarterly publication which began in 1988. It is for those who govern, lead, and teach at theologial schools, including administrators, board members, and faculty, to help provide effective leadership. In trust magazine provides access to critical infromation about peer institutions and the broader field of theological education. Additional resources are available via our newsletter and website at www.intrust.org, which provides access to current and past issues of the magazine, resource templates and guides, blog posts, and information about all of our programs and initiatives.membership and affiliation: the in trust center's member and affiliate institutions receive magazine subscriptions for their boards, senior administrators, faculty leaders, and libraries; full access to online magazine archives; and discounted fees for webinars. There were 206 member and affiliate institutions of the in trust center for the 2023 membership year. Voting members, a subset of the overall membership, elect candidates to the in trust center board of directors. Voting members must be educational institutions accredited by an agency approved by the council for…
$971,178 spent$5,354 earned by the program31% of program spendingLearning communities: the in trust center connects our member schools to experts in key areas of theological education through webinars, facilitated conversations, and podcasts. Our webinars are interactive presentations, live or recorded, using both audio and video that feature carefully selected content delivered by experts in various fields - for example, fundraising, governance, and leadership. Each in trust center webinar includes time for interactive questions and answers. Our facilitated conversation spaces offer opportunities for peer engagement around timely topics and issues within small groups. The center also engages our membership via member surveys to understand members experiences, issues, and interest in key areas. We also create and record podcasts for our member schools, which include information on numerous topics. We invite listeners into interviews and converstions with colleagues, consultants, and leaders in the field in a cost-effective way for them to connect with wisdom, issues, and trends in the field.
$190,433 spent6% of program spendingResource consulting: the in trust center for theological schools is committed to walking alongside our member schools as they focus on achieving their mission. We provide individualized support through resource consulting. Resource consulting is based on a well-established learning model of institutional change: sustained and effective organizational learning comes when an institution augments its own assets and creativity with appropriate external resources. Combining internal assets with external resources like knowledge, tools, and talent empowers leaders to address challenges and take advantage of opportunities. Two initiatives that fall under this program are: 1. Resource grants - an in trust center resource grant is a dollar-for-dollar matching grant of up to $15,000 that is intended to address a particular innovative challenge or opportunity within an institution. The in trust center hopes that through a resource grant, a member school will engage an outside resource that allows them to support their work and further their school's mission. All member schools of the in trust center are eligible to apply for a resource grant; however, schools may not apply for a grant the…
$2,018,697 spent63% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,180,308.
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 2017 to 2018, from $7.0M to $13M (+87%).
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.
85% of ASSOCIATION OF BOARDS IN THEOLOGICAL EDUCATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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.
Board chair
Dr Charisse L Gillett
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of ASSOCIATION OF BOARDS IN THEOLOGICAL EDUCATION’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.
Where its funders are
ASSOCIATION OF BOARDS IN THEOLOGICAL EDUCATION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Delaware, across 1 state in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
ASSOCIATION OF BOARDS IN THEOLOGICAL EDUCATION has grown faster than three-quarters of the 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like ASSOCIATION OF BOARDS IN THEOLOGICAL EDUCATION
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Delaware
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ASSOCIATION OF BOARDS IN THEOLOGICAL EDUCATION: 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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Questions and answers
- Who funds ASSOCIATION OF BOARDS IN THEOLOGICAL EDUCATION?
- ASSOCIATION OF BOARDS IN THEOLOGICAL EDUCATION (Delaware) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $144,000 to it, the largest being M J MURDOCK CHARITABLE TRUST ($144,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ASSOCIATION OF BOARDS IN THEOLOGICAL EDUCATION have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $144,000 in grants to ASSOCIATION OF BOARDS IN THEOLOGICAL EDUCATION.
- Who is the largest funder of ASSOCIATION OF BOARDS IN THEOLOGICAL EDUCATION?
- M J MURDOCK CHARITABLE TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $144,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ASSOCIATION OF BOARDS IN THEOLOGICAL EDUCATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Delaware. 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 1 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