New York · Nonprofit
The Academy For Christian Thought
The Academy For Christian Thought (New York) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,257 to it, the largest being TUFENKIAN FOUNDATION INC ($2,200). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $62k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $2k
- Net assets
- $-1790093
What The Academy For Christian Thought does
Mission
The organization conducts interdisciplinary research, education and publication on science, history and the Christian faith.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Ron Choong delivered 8 online lectures in the US, UK, Malaysia and Singapore: These include (1) The hidden christians of Nagasaki during the Samurai period (2) The credibility of beliefs (3) Adventures of an accidental archaeologist (4) Science, technology & scripture (5) Seven civilizations that shaped christianity (6) Searching for the fingerprints of God - The story of modern science (7) Who wrote the Bible (8) Is the old testament the Hebrew Bible. He also published 3 papers on academia.edu:(1) science, signs and scripture (2) All men by nature, desire to know (3) Philosophy of time and time travel. Field research included India, Greece and Albania. Interviewed Prof. S.S.Wani of the Archaeological Survey of India, visited Olympia and Meteoras monasteries in Greece. Albania - Because of centuries of wars between Christians and Muslims, political narratives were weaponized and made Albania an Atheist country.
$168,124 spent$62,488 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $168,124.
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 $38k to $15k (−60%).
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 The Academy For Christian Thought’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 9 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
Ron Choong
Executive Director
Board chair
Andre Ong
Chairman
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 fell $500 → $316.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 3% 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 The Academy For Christian Thought’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
The Academy For Christian Thought leans on a few funders — its largest provides 97% of grant income and the top three 100%; 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 97% · 2021 96% · 2022 96% · 2023 95% — 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
100% of The Academy For Christian Thought's grant income comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $57 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
The Academy For Christian Thought's revenue fell 41% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,869 religion nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
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In New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
71% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 The Academy For Christian Thought: 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 The Academy For Christian Thought?
- The Academy For Christian Thought (New York) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,257 to it, the largest being TUFENKIAN FOUNDATION INC ($2,200). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does The Academy For Christian Thought have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $2,257 in grants to The Academy For Christian Thought, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of The Academy For Christian Thought?
- TUFENKIAN FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $2,200 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like The Academy For Christian Thought 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.
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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 2 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