Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
FRIENDS OF CHINESE REFORMED THEOLOGICAL SEMINARIES
FRIENDS OF CHINESE REFORMED THEOLOGICAL SEMINARIES (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $43,800 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($43,800). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $239k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $44k
- Net assets
- $317k
What Friends of Chinese Reformed Theological Seminaries does
Mission
Support missionary teachers, the work of Reformed Theological Seminaries, training Chinese leaders, church planting, an internet TV station for teaching purpose and other Reformed educational ministries among Chinese people. Our vision is to establish healthy Reformed ministries, staffed with qualified Reformed theological leaders who can reproduce Reformed pastors and biblical counselors, also proper facilities to accommodate the Seminaries' need.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Missionary support for Dr. Tim Yates.
$71,660 spent33% of program spendingSupport Chinese Reformed Theological Seminary and its China Mission.
$39,916 spent18% of program spendingMissionary support for Dr. Toon H. Yeo.
$36,083 spent17% of program spendingMissionary Support to Dr. Moses Wong for his work as missionary to Taiwan and a full time teacher at CRTS in Taiwan
$34,050 spent16% of program spendingSupport CRTS-TV, an internet TV station, programs are lectures or seminars on biblical topics
$16,100 spent7% of program spendingPCA General Assembly Chinese ministry, supports Chinese teaching or ruling elders or CRTS alumni to attend annual PCA GA meeting. Also, supports CRTS student Malaysia Retreat as well as North America alumni meeting.
$7,296 spent3% of program spendingMissionary Support for Dr. Andy McCafferty travel for CRTS alumni seminar teaching and GA meeting.
$6,601 spent3% of program spendingSupport church planting - more than a dozen of churches have been planted since 2014
$3,300 spent2% of program spendingSupport Reformed Press to print and translate modern and classical Christian related books and documents.
$2,000 spent1% of program spending
The 9 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $217,006.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2021 to 2022, from $326k to $239k (−27%).
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.
100% of FRIENDS OF CHINESE REFORMED THEOLOGICAL SEMINARIES’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 6 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.
Board chair
Dr Guy Waters
Chair of the Board
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $6k → $15k.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 FRIENDS OF CHINESE REFORMED THEOLOGICAL SEMINARIES’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.
Where its funders are
100% of FRIENDS OF CHINESE REFORMED THEOLOGICAL SEMINARIES'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $44k 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.
Against its field
FRIENDS OF CHINESE REFORMED THEOLOGICAL SEMINARIES holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
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In Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
97% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds FRIENDS OF CHINESE REFORMED THEOLOGICAL SEMINARIES?
- FRIENDS OF CHINESE REFORMED THEOLOGICAL SEMINARIES (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $43,800 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($43,800). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does FRIENDS OF CHINESE REFORMED THEOLOGICAL SEMINARIES have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $43,800 in grants to FRIENDS OF CHINESE REFORMED THEOLOGICAL SEMINARIES, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FRIENDS OF CHINESE REFORMED THEOLOGICAL SEMINARIES?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $43,800 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FRIENDS OF CHINESE REFORMED THEOLOGICAL SEMINARIES 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.
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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 2020–2025), and the filings of 1 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