Indiana · Nonprofit
Concordia Theological Seminary
Concordia Theological Seminary (Indiana) receives grants from 48 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,630,975 to it, the largest being CONCORDIA THEOLOGICAL FOUNDATION INC ($6,880,000). 33 of them have funded it in more than one year.
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.
- Calvin Universityportfolio match
- Edward L Schwab Memorial Foundationportfolio match
- Iowa College Foundationportfolio match
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 Concordia Theological Seminary’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 48 funders by total. Association, not causation.
How concentrated its funding is
Concordia Theological Seminary has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 22% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration.
How long its funders stay
63% of Concordia Theological Seminary's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 69% 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
Concordia Theological Seminary draws 76% of its grant income from funders outside Indiana, across 23 states in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing.
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.
- Calvin Universityportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Edward L Schwab Memorial Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Iowa College Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Wabash Collegeportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Lutheran Educational Conference Ofportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Council for Christian Collegesportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Community Hospital Auxiliary Scholarshipportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Associated Colleges of Illinois Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Minnesota Private College Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Asianetwork Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Fahrney Education Fdtn Trustportfolio 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.
Government funding Concordia Theological Seminary receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $160k on record.
- Department of Education$160k
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 Concordia Theological Seminary
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 Indiana
Nationally
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Concordia Theological 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.
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 Concordia Theological Seminary?
- Concordia Theological Seminary (Indiana) receives grants from 48 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,630,975 to it, the largest being CONCORDIA THEOLOGICAL FOUNDATION INC ($6,880,000). 33 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Concordia Theological Seminary have?
- IRS filings report 48 organizations giving $5,630,975 in grants to Concordia Theological Seminary, 33 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Concordia Theological Seminary?
- CONCORDIA THEOLOGICAL FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $6,880,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Concordia Theological Seminary find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Indiana. 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 FY2024, and the filings of 48funders 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. What this page cannot tell you · view filing