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TYNDALE THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY INC FKA TYNDALE INTERNATIONAL MISSION
TYNDALE THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY INC FKA TYNDALE INTERNATIONAL MISSION (Illinois) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $903,449 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($271,720). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.8M
- Funders on record
- 13
- Grants received
- $903k
- Net assets
- $1.5M
What Tyndale Theological Seminary Inc Fka Tyndale International Mission does
Mission
Provide a quality master's level education to approximately 60 degree program students and 20 non-degree students
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Tyndale Theological Seminary, Inc. exists to develop leaders who can be used by God to grow His Church at the local level of their home countries. Tyndale shares in the goal of evangelism and making disciples from all nations. Our part is to provide a unique opportunity for students from The Netherlands, Europe and throughout the world to come to Tyndale, be trained and equipped in the gospel of Jesus Christ, and then return home to their native lands to serve the local church as missionaries, church planters, pastors, Bible teachers and leaders. We believe in the ministry of the local church. Our degree and certificate programs are geared toward training up leaders for the local church. Since our beginning in 1985, students from 86 nations have joined us in community for this work. During our most recent academic year, students from 18 nations took classes at Tyndale.
$1,427,772 spent$157,291 earned by the program100% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,427,772.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2024 to 2025, from $1.5M to $2.0M (+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.
91% of TYNDALE THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY INC FKA TYNDALE INTERNATIONAL MISSION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 5 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
Steve Meador
Chairman - Board of Directors
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 8 funders, grant income rose $15k → $154k.
7 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 42% 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 TYNDALE THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY INC FKA TYNDALE INTERNATIONAL MISSION’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
TYNDALE THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY INC FKA TYNDALE INTERNATIONAL MISSION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 30% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
55% 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 TYNDALE THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY INC FKA TYNDALE INTERNATIONAL MISSION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 99% · 2019 67% · 2020 61% · 2021 42% · 2022 36% · 2023 39% — 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
71% of TYNDALE THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY INC FKA TYNDALE INTERNATIONAL MISSION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 69% give in more than one year at all.
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
TYNDALE THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY INC FKA TYNDALE INTERNATIONAL MISSION draws 74% of its grant income from funders outside Illinois, across 5 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $381k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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.
Against its field
TYNDALE THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY INC FKA TYNDALE INTERNATIONAL MISSION runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like TYNDALE THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY INC FKA TYNDALE INTERNATIONAL MISSION
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 Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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Questions and answers
- Who funds TYNDALE THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY INC FKA TYNDALE INTERNATIONAL MISSION?
- TYNDALE THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY INC FKA TYNDALE INTERNATIONAL MISSION (Illinois) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $903,449 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($271,720). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does TYNDALE THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY INC FKA TYNDALE INTERNATIONAL MISSION have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $903,449 in grants to TYNDALE THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY INC FKA TYNDALE INTERNATIONAL MISSION, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of TYNDALE THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY INC FKA TYNDALE INTERNATIONAL MISSION?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $271,720 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TYNDALE THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY INC FKA TYNDALE INTERNATIONAL MISSION 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.
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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 2021–2025), and the filings of 13 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