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NEW YORK THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY

NEW YORK THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY (New York) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,561,752 to it, the largest being LILLY ENDOWMENT INC ($1,557,496). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2021
$4.4M
Funders on record
29
Grants received
$3.6M
Net assets
$1.2M
15/29 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 23%
01What it does

What New York Theological Seminary does

Mission

New York Theological Seminary is a diverse and inclusive community of learning grounded in biblical witness and christian tradition, with a historic urban focus. The seminary prepares women and men for faith-based ministries in the city and throughout the world. Values.

As stated on its FY2021 Form 990.

Program

The first professional degree program (leading to various master's degrees) remains the largest program of the seminary in terms of both revenue and expenses. The revenue continues to come through tuition and fees. Most of the faculty resources are devoted on this program. Wecurrently offer five degrees at the masters level. The master of arts in pastoral care and counseling (mapcc), the master of arts in religious education (mare), master of arts in youth ministry (maym), the master of arts in leadership and administration (marla), and themaster of professional study (mps) offered at sing sing correctional facilities. All our degrees are approved by our national accreditation body, and commission for accreditation of the association of theological schools. The seminary's main first professional degree continues to be the master of divinity (mdiv).

The first program described on its most recent Form 990, which lists programs largest first by expense.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($5.2M) Expenses 100 ($5.4M) Net assets 100 ($2.0M)2018 Revenue 111 ($5.8M) Expenses 103 ($5.6M) Net assets 112 ($2.2M)2019 Revenue 90 ($4.7M) Expenses 98 ($5.3M) Net assets 82 ($1.6M)2020 Revenue 79 ($4.1M) Expenses 88 ($4.8M) Net assets 46 ($918k)2021 Revenue 85 ($4.4M) Expenses 80 ($4.3M) Net assets 60 ($1.2M)
20172018201920202021
Revenue (85)Expenses (80)Net assets (60)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2018 to 2019, from $3.1M to $2.6M (−16%).

$3.0M
$3.1M
$2.6M
$2.2M
$2.4M
20172018201920202021
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

−$209k
’17
$178k
’18
−$646k
’19
−$670k
’20
$134k
’21
1.6
months of
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.

20172018201920202021
Listed2425252017
Joined·+1+1+10+1
No longer listed·01154
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 12 funders to 6 funders, grant income fell $1.2M → $638k.

7 of 29 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 21% 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 NEW YORK 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

NEW YORK THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 44% of grant income and the top three 61%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

37% 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 NEW YORK THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY.

44%
largest funder
61%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 84% · 2018 25% · 2019 32% · 2020 32% · 2021 76% · 2022 28% · 2023 47% — 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.

How long its funders stay

33% of NEW YORK THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 52% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

NEW YORK THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY draws 61% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 8 states in all.

NH
MT
NY
IN
PA
NJ
DE
DC

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’17
’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
New York out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $732k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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.

04Its place in the field

Government funding NEW YORK THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $733k on record.

Federal$733k
grants $733kcontracts $0
20
21
Top agencies
  • Department of Education$733k

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 NEW YORK 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 New York

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

69% of spending goes to programs.

Program 69%Management 27%Fundraising 4%

Governance

21
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

NY

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Fund for Community Leadership Initiative · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds NEW YORK THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY?
NEW YORK THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY (New York) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,561,752 to it, the largest being LILLY ENDOWMENT INC ($1,557,496). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does NEW YORK THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY have?
IRS filings report 29 organizations giving $3,561,752 in grants to NEW YORK THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of NEW YORK THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY?
LILLY ENDOWMENT INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,557,496 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like NEW YORK THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 FY2021 (financials across 2017–2021), and the filings of 29 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