Georgia · Nonprofit
GAMMON THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY
GAMMON THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY (Georgia) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $989,152 to it, the largest being SOMA FOUNDATION INC ($500,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.3M
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $989k
- Net assets
- $17M
What Gammon Theological Seminary does
Mission
The mission of Gammon Theological Seminary, a historically african american institution, in partnership with the interdenominational theological center, is to recruit, support, and educate faithful pastors and leaders in their call to ministry in the church, community, and throughout the world.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Founded in 1883 by the methodist episcopal church,with assistance from the freedmen's aid society, Gammon Theological Seminary is one of the 13 theological schools of the united methodist church. The faculty and administration of gammon/itc create an environment where critical thinking, investigative reflection, decision-making and responsible action are fostered.the vision of Gammon Theological Seminary is to educate and equip persons, called by god, to become prophetic leaders for the mission of making disciples of jesus christ for the transformation of the world. Gammon's historic commitment to producing public theologians - men and women who are spiritually astute, intellectually keen, politically sophisticated, and culturally sensitive - is advanced with the establishment of the gammon center for the study of religion and race. The center enables gammon to educate and mobilize seminarians and others to challenge racism throughout the church and around the world. Additionally, the center engages leaders of all ethnicities who desire to work as partners in dismantling racism. The center has at its core three major structural components:- damascus road experience (academic year…
$980,496 spentof which $87,404 as grants$861,744 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $980,496.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $15M to $16M (+9%).
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: 2025 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 4 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
Bishop L Jonathan Holston
Chairperson
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $5k → $26k.
1 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 GAMMON THEOLOGICAL 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
GAMMON THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 51% of grant income and the top three 97%; 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: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 92% · 2022 100% · 2023 96% — diversifying over time.
“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
51% of GAMMON THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY's grant income comes from Georgia funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $7k 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.
Organizations like GAMMON 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 Georgia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
37% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
60%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for GAMMON 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds GAMMON THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY?
- GAMMON THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY (Georgia) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $989,152 to it, the largest being SOMA FOUNDATION INC ($500,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GAMMON THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $989,152 in grants to GAMMON THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GAMMON THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY?
- SOMA FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $500,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GAMMON THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Georgia. 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 2022–2025), and the filings of 7 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