Illinois · Nonprofit
The Moody Bible Institute of Chicago
The Moody Bible Institute of Chicago (Illinois) receives grants from 246 organizations whose IRS filings report $32,534,990 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($6,682,965). 170 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 59% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly. The Moody Bible Institute of Chicago administers funds for other donors, so those contributions arrive into funds it holds rather than supporting a program it runs itself.
Hosts funds for others
The Moody Bible Institute of Chicago administers funds on behalf of other donors. The grants recorded as coming in are contributions into those funds, so they count custody rather than support for a programThe Moody Bible Institute of Chicago runs itself. This page therefore states the flows and does not draw the comparisons it would draw for an operating charity: concentration, funder retention, grant dependency and the peer field are all left out, because each of them would read a vehicle as if it were a program.
Paid out
$12k
Recipients
2
Contributions on record
$33M
Donors on record
248
Payments out are 0.00x the contributions on record, so the balance accumulates rather than passing straight through.
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Dallas Seminary Foundationshared funders
- Votum Foundation Incportfolio match
- The Nowiczewski Foundationportfolio match
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.
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: 2020 2% · 2022 2% · 2023 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 78 funders to 115 funders, grant income rose $2.6M → $5.3M.
50 of 246 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 59% 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 Moody Bible Institute of Chicago’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 246 funders by total. 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
59% of The Moody Bible Institute of Chicago'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. Of the $13M that is directly attributable, 90% of it comes from funders outside Illinois, across 37 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $19M arriving through sponsors registered in 25 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 246 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Dallas Seminary Foundationshared fundersTX · backs 50 organizations that share your funders
- Votum Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Nowiczewski Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Heinemannmark & Judy Foundation-Importfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Thomas B Dixson Et Alportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Missouri Baptist Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Hispanic Scholarship Fundshared fundersCA · backs 50 organizations that share your funders
- Kpmg US Foundation Incshared fundersNJ · backs 79 organizations that share your funders
- American Chemical Societyshared fundersDC · backs 58 organizations that share your funders
- Christian Community Foundation of Memphisshared fundersTN · backs 109 organizations that share your funders
- Ernst & Young Foundationshared fundersNY · backs 106 organizations that share your funders
- National Collegiate Athletic Associationshared fundersIN · backs 68 organizations that share your funders
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Government funding The Moody Bible Institute of Chicago receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $10.1M on record — $10.0M federal, $86k state.
- Department of Education$10.0M
- REFUNDS - GENERAL $86k
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.
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
90%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 4 states
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Charitable Unitrusts (134) · corp_trust
- Pooled Income Fund (1) · corp_trust
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for The Moody Bible Institute of Chicago: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds The Moody Bible Institute of Chicago?
- The Moody Bible Institute of Chicago (Illinois) receives grants from 246 organizations whose IRS filings report $32,534,990 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($6,682,965). 170 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 59% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly. The Moody Bible Institute of Chicago administers funds for other donors, so those contributions arrive into funds it holds rather than supporting a program it runs itself.
- How many funders does The Moody Bible Institute of Chicago have?
- IRS filings report 246 organizations giving $32,534,990 in grants to The Moody Bible Institute of Chicago, 170 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of The Moody Bible Institute of Chicago?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $6,682,965 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like The Moody Bible Institute of Chicago find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 246funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing