Mississippi · Nonprofit
WESLEY BIBLICAL SEMINARY
WESLEY BIBLICAL SEMINARY (Mississippi) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,032,638 to it, the largest being LILLY ENDOWMENT INC ($6,599,500). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
WESLEY BIBLICAL SEMINARY runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters 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.
- Hope Enterprise Corporationlocal
- Franklin W & Helen S Bowen Charitable Trustportfolio match
- Thomas B Dixson Et Alportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 22%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
40% of WESLEY BIBLICAL SEMINARY’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $6k → $369k.
8 of 19 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 5% 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 WESLEY BIBLICAL 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
WESLEY BIBLICAL SEMINARY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 82% of grant income and the top three 93%; 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: 2017 92% · 2018 46% · 2019 42% · 2020 75% · 2021 38% · 2022 77% · 2023 68% — 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
44% of WESLEY BIBLICAL SEMINARY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 79% 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
WESLEY BIBLICAL SEMINARY draws 91% of its grant income from funders outside Mississippi, across 5 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $361k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 statesis 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 19 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Hope Enterprise CorporationlocalMS · funds 73 organizations near you
- Franklin W & Helen S Bowen Charitable Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Thomas B Dixson Et Alportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Council for Christian Colleges and Universitiesportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Museum of the Bibleportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Calvin Universityportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Wabash Collegeportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Morkal Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Folds of Honor Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Thomasson Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Nowiczewski Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Libertyportfolio 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.
Government funding WESLEY BIBLICAL SEMINARY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $496k on record.
- Department of Education$496k
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 WESLEY BIBLICAL SEMINARY
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 Mississippi
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
60% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WESLEY BIBLICAL SEMINARY: 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 WESLEY BIBLICAL SEMINARY?
- WESLEY BIBLICAL SEMINARY (Mississippi) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,032,638 to it, the largest being LILLY ENDOWMENT INC ($6,599,500). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WESLEY BIBLICAL SEMINARY have?
- IRS filings report 19 organizations giving $8,032,638 in grants to WESLEY BIBLICAL SEMINARY, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WESLEY BIBLICAL SEMINARY?
- LILLY ENDOWMENT INC is the largest funder on record, with $6,599,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WESLEY BIBLICAL SEMINARY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Mississippi. 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 19funders 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