Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
ASSOCIATION OF THEOLOGICAL SCHOOLS
ASSOCIATION OF THEOLOGICAL SCHOOLS (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $60,297,500 to it, the largest being LILLY ENDOWMENT INC ($60,170,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
ASSOCIATION OF THEOLOGICAL SCHOOLS receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $60.3M to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,681 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, 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.
- American Council of Learned Societiesshared funders
- Visitor Development Fund Incportfolio match
- Calvin Universityportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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.
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.
73% of ASSOCIATION OF THEOLOGICAL SCHOOLS’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $1.2M → $500k.
From the IRS filings of ASSOCIATION OF THEOLOGICAL SCHOOLS’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
ASSOCIATION OF THEOLOGICAL SCHOOLS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 100% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 61% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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.
Where its funders are
ASSOCIATION OF THEOLOGICAL SCHOOLS draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Pennsylvania, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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.
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 3 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- American Council of Learned Societiesshared fundersNY · backs 65 organizations that share your funders
- Visitor Development Fund Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Calvin Universityportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Christian Education Charitable Trust Coportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Fund for Theological Education Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- American Institute of Physics Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Museum of the Bibleportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Second Presbyterian Church Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Stewardship Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Catholic Association Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Delmarva Education Associationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- McDonald Agape Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
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.
Organizations like ASSOCIATION OF THEOLOGICAL SCHOOLS
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 Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
96% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Commission on Accrediting of the Association of Theological Schools · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ASSOCIATION OF THEOLOGICAL SCHOOLS: 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.
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 ASSOCIATION OF THEOLOGICAL SCHOOLS?
- ASSOCIATION OF THEOLOGICAL SCHOOLS (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $60,297,500 to it, the largest being LILLY ENDOWMENT INC ($60,170,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ASSOCIATION OF THEOLOGICAL SCHOOLS have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $60,297,500 in grants to ASSOCIATION OF THEOLOGICAL SCHOOLS, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ASSOCIATION OF THEOLOGICAL SCHOOLS?
- LILLY ENDOWMENT INC is the largest funder on record, with $60,170,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ASSOCIATION OF THEOLOGICAL SCHOOLS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 3funders 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