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CHERRY HILL SEMINARY

CHERRY HILL SEMINARY (South Carolina) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,343 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($1,343). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 57% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$97k
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$2k
Net assets
$208k
2/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 1%
01What it does

What Cherry Hill Seminary does

Mission

Education for the ministry, activities income tuition for classes and charitable contributions

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. Education for the ministry, activities income tuition for classes and charitable contributions

    $67,044 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $67,044.

02The 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 ($47k) Expenses 100 ($49k) Net assets 100 ($7k)2018 Revenue 82 ($38k) Expenses 83 ($41k) Net assets 66 ($5k)2019 Revenue 101 ($47k) Expenses 97 ($48k) Net assets 60 ($4k)2020 Revenue 144 ($67k) Expenses 114 ($56k) Net assets 212 ($16k)2021 Revenue 235 ($110k) Expenses 196 ($96k) Net assets 400 ($29k)2022 Revenue 450 ($211k) Expenses 190 ($93k) Net assets 2004 ($147k)2023 Revenue 214 ($100k) Expenses 174 ($85k) Net assets 2208 ($162k)2024 Revenue 254 ($119k) Expenses 165 ($81k) Net assets 2721 ($200k)2025 Revenue 207 ($97k) Expenses 182 ($89k) Net assets 2825 ($208k)
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Revenue (207)Expenses (182)Net assets (2825)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $29k to $147k (+401%).

$7k
$5k
$4k
$16k
$29k
$147k
$162k
$200k
$208k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

20% of CHERRY HILL SEMINARY’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (65% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 26,798 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$2k
’17
−$3k
’18
−$463
’19
$11k
’20
$14k
’21
$118k
’22
$15k
’23
$38k
’24
$8k
’25
23
months of
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

Dana Doerksen

Board Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

2017201820192020202120222023
Listed4445466
Joined·+1+1+2+0+3+0
No longer listed·111110
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $719 → $274.

Funder
'20
'21
'22
'23
total
funders
2
2
1
1

1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 57% 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 CHERRY HILL SEMINARY’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

CHERRY HILL SEMINARY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 57% 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

57% 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 CHERRY HILL SEMINARY.

57%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 70% · 2021 59% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — 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.

Where its funders are

57% of CHERRY HILL SEMINARY'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 $1k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside South Carolina, across 1 state.

CA

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

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’21
South Carolina out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

CHERRY HILL SEMINARY has grown faster than three-quarters of the 17,277 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin8% · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)9% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,277 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2025

Organizations like CHERRY HILL SEMINARY

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 South Carolina

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

SC

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CHERRY HILL SEMINARY: 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 CHERRY HILL SEMINARY?
CHERRY HILL SEMINARY (South Carolina) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,343 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($1,343). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 57% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does CHERRY HILL SEMINARY have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $2,343 in grants to CHERRY HILL SEMINARY, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CHERRY HILL SEMINARY?
AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,343 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CHERRY HILL SEMINARY find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in South Carolina. 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 2 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