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Episcopal Preaching Foundation Inc
Episcopal Preaching Foundation Inc (New Jersey) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,746,318 to it, the largest being LILLY ENDOWMENT INC ($1,126,965). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $377k
- Funders on record
- 16
- Grants received
- $1.7M
- Net assets
- $3.5M
What Episcopal Preaching Foundation Inc does
Mission
The foundation exists to promote and support preaching excellence in the Episcopal Church. The organization's focus on preaching reflects the importance of good preaching to the vitality of the church. Preaching is cited in national surveys (Gallup, 2017, and Pew Research Center, 2016) to be the leading factor in choosing a place of worship and attending services.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The Preaching Excellence Program ("PEP") for Seminarians, held at the Diocese of Virginia's Roslyn Retreat Center, May 26-30th. Each year, the organization hosts 45-50 promising preaching students nominated by the deans of Episcopal seminaries, local formation programs, and Anglican seminaries in Canada, to a one-week residential conference with a single-minded focus on preaching. The organization underwrites 80% of the cost, with the balance funded by the student, his/her school, and the diocese. The organization's focus on preaching reflects the importance of good preaching to the vitality of the church. Preaching is cited repeatedly in national surveys (Gallup, 2017, and PEW Research Center, 2016) to be the leading factor in choosing a place of worship and attending services.
$302,833 spentof which $10,000 as grants$38,271 earned by the program56% of program spendingSermon Roundtable ("SRT") Previously, "The Preaching Congregation", funded by a five-year grant from Lilly Endowment, in which groups of congregants first receive instruction in the elements of sermon preparation, and subsequently provide affirmative feedback to their preacher on each Sunday's sermon. Launched in 2023 to be offered at the parish level, SRT is in the early post-launch stage and still gaining visibility in the Episcopal Church.
$127,180 spent23% of program spendingThe Lay Preacher Training Initiative ("LPTI") The four-year grant from Trinity Church Wall Street (2021-2024 for the creation, pilot testing, and national rollout of this program concluded in December 2024. In June 2025, 12 Episcopal dioceses were actively training approximately 70 new lay preachers using the robust one-year curriculum. Additionally, the curriculum is now being adapted with funding from the Iona Collaborative of Seminary of the Southwest, for integration into the Iona Curriculum for training future clergy and lay preachers in the 30 dioceses subscribing to the Iona Collaborative curriculum. The LPTI program draws on EPF's self-study homiletics (preaching) curriculum developed in 2020 in partnership with Seminary of the Southwest's Iona Collaborative. The Lay Preaching program is now self-funding through a combination of subscription revenue from Dioceses and grants.
$85,423 spent16% of program spendingOnline preaching conferences for Episcopal Clergy The Foundation delivered two online conferences in the first quarter of 2025: The Conference for Spanish Speaking Clergy in Mid-March, for 14 participants representing diverse regions of the Episcopal Church. This is the second year's offering of this two-day conference, which EPF has been requested to offer as an annual event. A two-day online preaching conference for Episcopal Deacons of Episcopal Province IV was held in February 2025 with 35 attendees.
$19,548 spent4% of program spendingThe Shilling Award for Excellence in Preaching EPF offers each Episcopal seminary the option to confer this $1,000 award to an outstanding preacher. In this fiscal year, the award was made by six Episcopal seminaries.
$6,232 spentof which $6,232 as grants1% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $541,216.
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 $3.0M to $3.7M (+23%).
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: 2022 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
106% of Episcopal Preaching Foundation Inc’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Chief executive
Peter Wild
Executive Director
Board chair
A Gary Shilling PhD
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $36k → $374k.
4 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 4% 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 Episcopal Preaching Foundation Inc’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
Episcopal Preaching Foundation Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 65% of grant income and the top three 91%; 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 55% · 2018 63% · 2019 63% · 2020 73% · 2021 44% · 2022 95% · 2023 67% — 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.
How long its funders stay
30% of Episcopal Preaching Foundation Inc'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
Episcopal Preaching Foundation Inc draws 72% of its grant income from funders outside New Jersey, across 9 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $72k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
Episcopal Preaching Foundation Inc's funding base is broadening — from 4 funders to 9 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,334 religion nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Episcopal Preaching Foundation Inc
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 New Jersey
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
40%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Episcopal Preaching Foundation Inc: 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 Episcopal Preaching Foundation Inc?
- Episcopal Preaching Foundation Inc (New Jersey) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,746,318 to it, the largest being LILLY ENDOWMENT INC ($1,126,965). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Episcopal Preaching Foundation Inc have?
- IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $1,746,318 in grants to Episcopal Preaching Foundation Inc, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Episcopal Preaching Foundation Inc?
- LILLY ENDOWMENT INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,126,965 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Episcopal Preaching Foundation Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Jersey. 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 16 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