Texas · Nonprofit
Dallas Theological Seminary
Dallas Theological Seminary (Texas) receives grants from 174 organizations whose IRS filings report $52,713,103 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($13,700,615). 116 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 63% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $73M
- Funders on record
- 174
- Grants received
- $53M
- Net assets
- $139M
What Dallas Theological Seminary does
Mission
The mission of Dallas Theological Seminary is to glorify God by equipping godly servant-leaders for the proclamation of His Word and the building up of the body of Christ worldwide.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
INSTRUCTION: Dallas Theological Seminary (DTS) offers a variety of graduate academic programs from its main campus in Dallas, TX and its various extension sites. Online courses are also offered. DTS is nondenominational and seeks to serve those of like biblical faith in evangelical protestantism. DTS has over 19,000 alumni serving in over 100 countries. Fall 2024 enrollment consisted of 2,634 students, with 14,877 total class hours taken that term.
$31,278,859 spentof which $8,581,346 as grants$25,640,620 earned by the program61% of program spendingSTUDENT SERVICES: The mission of student services is to ensure that every student has the opportunity to develop as a godly servant-leader through his or her social, cultural, spiritual, physical, and emotional life. We provide advisement, programming, and services to enrich community, family life, personal interaction, social development, cultural awareness, physical development and campus diversity. The admissions department works to recruit and then equip entering students with the resources needed to have a successful graduate-studies experience. The registrar and counseling offices provide advising, counseling and testing services to facilitate personal, family and professional development. The Chaplains office encourages campus community life, worship, and spiritual development through chapel programming. The Dean of Students office provides opportunities for student participation in decision-making and leadership development through student groups.
$8,698,120 spentof which $368,594 as grants$5,709 earned by the program17% of program spendingACADEMIC SUPPORT: The library holds over 375,000 items, provides access to electronic resources and has special rare volumes. The media and computer lab allows students to use computer equipment, audio and video media.
$5,772,399 spentof which $7,500 as grants$4,067 earned by the program11% of program spendingAUXILIARY: Auxiliary enterprises consist of a student bookstore, two student apartment buildings, and a theological journal. Swindoll Tower residence hall has 158 apartments for married students with families and includes a fireside chat room, playroom, and courtyard with a pool. Washington Hall, the single-student apartment building, contains 158 bedrooms in one and two bedroom apartments. Its amenities include a student research library that is an extension of Turpin Library, conference rooms, 2 music practice rooms, 2 media rooms, a multipurpose room/gym, and a pool. Bibliotheca Sacra, a theological quarterly, in continuous publication since 1843, has been published by DTS since 1934.
$4,209,094 spent$3,525,847 earned by the program8% of program spendingPUBLIC SERVICE: Hendricks Center for Christian Leadership and Cultural Engagement pursues the development of effective Christian leadership in order to build leaders of integrity and impact.
$1,297,178 spentof which $533,850 as grants$38,060 earned by the program3% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $51,255,650.
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 $130M to $146M (+12%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2020 9% · 2021 1% · 2022 1% · 2023 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
58% of Dallas Theological Seminary’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. 0 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 52 funders to 73 funders, grant income rose $1.4M → $9.4M.
35 of 174 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 63% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $51M from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Dallas Seminary Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money Dallas Theological Seminary raised.
From the IRS filings of Dallas Theological Seminary’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 174 funders by total. 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
Dallas Theological Seminary has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 26% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
65% 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 Dallas Theological Seminary.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 18% · 2018 19% · 2019 22% · 2020 25% · 2021 22% · 2022 44% · 2023 19% — 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.
How long its funders stay
51% of Dallas Theological Seminary's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% 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
63% of Dallas Theological 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 $20M that is directly attributable, 80% of it comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $33M arriving through sponsors registered in 21 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
Dallas Theological Seminary runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 3,794 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,794 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding Dallas Theological Seminary receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.1M on record — $2.1M federal, $11k state.
- Department of Education$2.1M
- FEDERAL$11k
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 Dallas Theological 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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
76% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 5 states
Part of a family of 3 related entities
- Dallas Seminary Foundation · exempt
- DTS Global Training · exempt
- Charitable Remainder Trusts2 · corp_trust
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Dallas 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. Screen this nonprofit · How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds Dallas Theological Seminary?
- Dallas Theological Seminary (Texas) receives grants from 174 organizations whose IRS filings report $52,713,103 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($13,700,615). 116 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 63% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Dallas Theological Seminary have?
- IRS filings report 174 organizations giving $52,713,103 in grants to Dallas Theological Seminary, 116 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Dallas Theological Seminary?
- NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC is the largest funder on record, with $13,700,615 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Dallas Theological Seminary find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 174 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing