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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 $860,449 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($271,720). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
TYNDALE THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY INC FKA TYNDALE INTERNATIONAL MISSION runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 9,072 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,072 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
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.
- From His Hand Foundationshared funders
- Project42portfolio match
- Asam Charitable Trustportfolio match
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.
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
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) — 44% 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 leans on a few funders — its largest provides 32% of grant income and the top three 68%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
53% 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 80% 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.
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 13 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- From His Hand Foundationshared fundersIL · backs 24 organizations that share your funders
- Project42portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Asam Charitable Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Foreign Mission Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Calvin Universityportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Heinemannmark & Judy Foundation-Importfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Clayton Brown Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Christian Ministries Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Lc and Mary Worley Memorial Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Paul P Tell Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Withim Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Kairos Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
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.
Organizations like TYNDALE THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY INC FKA TYNDALE INTERNATIONAL MISSION
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for TYNDALE THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY INC FKA TYNDALE INTERNATIONAL MISSION: 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 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 $860,449 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 $860,449 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.
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 13funders 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