| Category | Amount | Net Investment Income | Adjusted Net Income | Disbursements for Charitable Purposes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Accounting Fees | 48,384 | 6,488 | 6,488 | 41,895 |
| Identifier | Return Reference | Explanation |
|---|---|---|
| Form 990-PF, Part II, Line 14: | Section 1.263(a)-3(n) Election:Bangor Theological Seminary97 India StreetPortland, ME 04101EIN 01-0211484Bangor Theological Seminary is electing to capitalize repair and maintenance costs under Regulation Section 1.263(a)- 3(n). | |
| Form 990-PF, Part VIII-A, Summary of Direct Charitable Activities | Activity One: Leadership FormationThe BTS Center offers learning communities and cohorts, courses, study groups, workshops, retreats, and other theologically grounded programs of continuing education, professional development, and spiritual / vocational formation, to assist with the formation of clergy, nonprofit leaders, chaplains, spiritual directors, engaged laypersons, and denominational leaders. This year's programs have included an eight-week online course called "EcoSpiritual Leaders: Encounters With Wholeness; a year-long EcoPreacher Cohort, drawing together preachers from around the country to strengthen their climate consciousness; a growing Climate Conscious Chaplaincy Initiative, including Chaplaincy Conversation Circles and several online workshops for chaplains of all sectors; and a series of group spiritual direction circles for leaders. With its focus on Leadership Formation, The BTS Center seeks to equip, connect, and resource spiritual leaders from a variety of traditions the "ripple makers" those who have particular roles in guiding congregations and communities of spiritual practice as they lead in a climate-changed world.Expenses: $206,621Activity Two: Equipping CongregationsThe BTS Center offers programs and resources to equip congregations for effective and faithful ministry in a time of rapid, traumatic, transformative change. Aware that geography significantly impacts identity and practice, at times these programs are oriented particularly toward New England settings. This year The BTS Center offered a Small Church Leadership Community, "Cultivating Refugia: Building the Resilient Church," drawing together teams from six small New England congregations for a year-long cohort focusing on naming and deepening the unique gifts of small congregations. In Spring 2024, The BTS Center partnered with Creation Justice Ministries and the Anabaptist Climate Collaborative to offer a three-day retreat, "Claiming Your Call for a Climate-Changed World," during which teams from twelve New England congregations gathered at the Schoodic Institute to engage with climate scientists, theologians, and indigenous leaders and to reflect on their unique vocations in this time of cultural, social, and ecological unraveling. Additionally, The BTS Center continues to develop a Leadership Commons, a collection of web-based resources designed to help equip faith leaders in the work of guiding communities of spiritual practice through the uncertainties of life on a changing planet.Expenses: $169,749Activity Three: Public Conversations and Public RitualDrawing together leading thinkers, authors, scholars, and practitioners, often in online spaces, The BTS Center hosts and facilitates public conversations and rituals focusing on themes related to spiritual leadership and the climate crisis. This year's offerings have included a five-part "Lament With Earth" online ritual series; Season 2 of a popular podcast called Climate Changed, featuring engaging conversations with thoughtful leaders exploring important issues related to spirituality and leadership in a climate-changed world; online public conversations with acclaimed author, teacher, and management consultant Margaret Wheatley and climate scientist Katharine Hayhoe; an online public reading for Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, called "Committed to Listen; an in-person Green Teams gathering for members of congregational Green Teams, Earth Care Teams, and Climate Action Teams from around Southern Maine and beyond; and several reading groups, including a Summer Fiction Book Club.Expenses: $153,060Activity Four: Applied ResearchThe BTS Center seeks to approach its work with a posture of "rigorous and reverent curiosity" rigorous, bringing the discipline of quantitative and qualitative research to this work, asking important questions, surfacing stories, collecting data, drawing conclusions, and sharing findings; and reverent because this work is sacred: responding to a divine urgency, a sacred calling, in this work of cultivating and nurturing spiritual leadership for a climate-changed world. Led by a Director of Applied Research and a team of consulting scholars, this year's Applied Research projects have produced articles, presentations, and reports for leaders in congregations and secular organizations, for peer-reviewed journals and academic conferences, and for teams engaged in program evaluation. Research findings assist in program design and evaluation and are the basis for academic presentations at the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion and the Religious Educators Association. Currently, The BTS Center is bringing a research lens to its work with the year-long EcoPreacher Cohort and the year-long Small Church Leadership Community, asking questions about congregational and clergy understandings of vocation in a climate-changed world.Expenses: $145,766Activity Five: Convocation With roots dating back to 1905, Convocation is The BTS Center's annual conference, bringing together keynote speakers, scholars, workshop leaders, musicians and artists, and a broad group of spiritual leaders interested in exploring themes related to spiritual leadership for a climate-changed world. Incorporating music, the arts, and contemplative practice, recent Convocations have included a blend of online and offline experiences, woven together to facilitate learning, nurture respite, and deepen community. Convocation 2023, held in person in Hallowell, Maine, explored the theme "Kinship: Re-Weaving the Great Web of Belonging," with Victoria Loorz, John Bear Mitchell, musician Liz Fulmer, a team of Creative / Contemplative Immersion Leaders, a team of Lectio Terra guides, and The BTS Center staff team. Through an Online Companions track, those geographically distant from Maine were able to join for a live-stream of plenary sessions and a series of "online exclusive" sessions engaging the Convocation theme and nurturing online community.True to its core value of collaboration, the BTS Center does much of its work in partnership with other faith-rooted and secular nonprofit organizations, and with many individuals authors, faith leaders, thought leaders, scholars, artists, and organizers. Expenses: $116,893 |
| Name of Bond | End of Year Book Value | End of Year Fair Market Value |
|---|---|---|
| Accrued Interest | 39,934 | 39,934 |
| 100000 Shares of Priceline Grp Inc Note Call Make Whole 3.55% | 95,087 | 95,087 |
| 4690 Shares of iShares ESG USD Corporate Bond ETF | 106,557 | 106,557 |
| 100000 Shares of Capital One Finl Corp Sr Sub Note Cpn 3.80% | 95,066 | 95,066 |
| 115000 Shares of Athene Hldg Ltd 4.125% | 110,905 | 110,905 |
| 100000 Shares of CVS Health Corp Bond Call Make Whole 4.30% | 96,562 | 96,562 |
| 100000 Shares of Santander Hldgs Usa Inc Fxd Rt Sr Nt 4.40% | 96,615 | 96,615 |
| 115000 Shares of Ingersoll-rand Global Hldg Co 3.75% | 109,625 | 109,625 |
| 100000 Shares of American Tower Corp New Sr Note 3.80% | 92,949 | 92,949 |
| 100000 Shares of Verizon Communications Inc 4.016% | 94,514 | 94,514 |
| 100000 Shares of Digital Rlty Tr Lp 3.60% | 92,759 | 92,759 |
| 130000 Shares of JPMorgan Chase & Co Sr Glbl Nt 31 4.493% | 125,220 | 125,220 |
| 100000 Shares of Workday Inc 3.80% | 89,854 | 89,854 |
| 125000 Shares of Equinix Inc 3.90% | 113,661 | 113,661 |
| 115000 Shares of Eaton Corp Ohio 4.15% | 107,692 | 107,692 |
| 110000 Shares of Republic Svcs Inc Nt 5.00% | 107,667 | 107,667 |
| 95000 Shares of Charles Schwab Corp Note Call Make Whole 5.85% | 96,854 | 96,854 |
| 115000 Shares of Paypal Holdings Inc Senior Unsecured Note 5.15% | 113,586 | 113,586 |
| 15291 Shares of Diamond Hill Short Duration Total Ret I | 150,000 | 150,000 |
| 8903 Shares of Public Storage Cum Pfd Shs Ser N 3.875% Perptual | 152,865 | 152,865 |
| 2919 Shares of iShares Floating Rate | 149,132 | 149,132 |
| 100000 Shares of Synchrony Finl 4.25% | 99,759 | 99,759 |
| 100000 Shares of Crown Castle Intl Corp 4.45% | 98,249 | 98,249 |
| 100000 Shares of Omnicom Group Inc Note Call Make Whole 3.60% | 96,725 | 96,725 |
| 100000 Shares of Boston Property 3.65% | 96,506 | 96,506 |
| 105000 Shares of Fiserv Inc 3.85% | 103,207 | 103,207 |
| 100000 Shares of Anthem Inc 2.375% | 98,270 | 98,270 |
| 150000 Shares of Bank of America (Green Bond) 2.456% | 148,439 | 148,439 |
| 150000 Shares of Netapp Inc 2.375% | 138,513 | 138,513 |
| 1674 Shares of iShares 0-5 Year TIPS Bond ETF | 166,546 | 166,546 |
| 1500 Shares of iShares 1-3 Year Treasury Bond ETF | 122,475 | 122,475 |
| 3280 Shares of Vanguard Intermediate Term Treasury ETF | 190,994 | 190,994 |
| Name of Stock | End of Year Book Value | End of Year Fair Market Value |
|---|---|---|
| 14699 Shares of Mowi Asa Sponsored ADS | 243,856 | 243,856 |
| 7198 Shares of London Stk Exchange Group ADR | 216,372 | 216,372 |
| 2732 Shares of AstraZeneca PLC ADR | 213,069 | 213,069 |
| 8334 Shares of eolia Environnement Adr | 124,760 | 124,760 |
| 236 Shares of ASML Holding NV | 241,364 | 241,364 |
| 18040 Shares of SPDR MSCI EAFE Fossil Fuel Free ETF | 735,826 | 735,826 |
| 3326 Shares of Alphabet Inc Class A | 605,831 | 605,831 |
| 2697 Shares of Amazon.com Inc | 521,195 | 521,195 |
| 388 Shares of Home Depot Inc | 133,565 | 133,565 |
| 1014 Shares of TJX Companies Inc | 111,641 | 111,641 |
| 845 Shares of DR Horton Inc | 119,086 | 119,086 |
| 1730 Shares of Aptiv PLC | 121,827 | 121,827 |
| 837 Shares of Pepsico Incorporated | 138,046 | 138,046 |
| 372 Shares of Costco Wholesale Corp | 316,196 | 316,196 |
| 6450 Shares of Bank of America Corp | 256,517 | 256,517 |
| 922 Shares of Morgan Stanley | 89,609 | 89,609 |
| 1111 Shares of JP Morgan Chase & Co. | 224,711 | 224,711 |
| 662 Shares of Marsh & McLennan Co Inc | 139,497 | 139,497 |
| 676 Shares of Visa Inc | 177,430 | 177,430 |
| 2096 Shares of Apollo Global Management Inc | 247,475 | 247,475 |
| 934 Shares of Amgen Inc | 291,828 | 291,828 |
| 2165 Shares of Merck & Co Inc | 268,027 | 268,027 |
| 382 Shares of UnitedHealth Group Inc | 194,537 | 194,537 |
| 118 Shares of Regeneron Pharmaceuticals | 124,022 | 124,022 |
| 329 Shares of Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc | 181,937 | 181,937 |
| 1439 Shares of Emerson Electric Co | 158,520 | 158,520 |
| 679 Shares of Eaton Corp PLC | 212,900 | 212,900 |
| 882 Shares of Republic Svcs Inc | 171,408 | 171,408 |
| 2561 Shares of AECOM | 225,727 | 225,727 |
| 510 Shares of Verisk Analytics Inc | 137,471 | 137,471 |
| 271 Shares of TopBuild Corp | 104,408 | 104,408 |
| 1459 Shares of Veralto Corp Com | 139,291 | 139,291 |
| 868 Shares of Public Storage Inc | 249,680 | 249,680 |
| 1450 Shares of Advanced Micro Devices | 235,205 | 235,205 |
| 1773 Shares of Microsoft Corp | 792,442 | 792,442 |
| 2788 Shares of Apple Inc | 587,209 | 587,209 |
| 145 Shares of Lam Research Corp | 154,403 | 154,403 |
| 1295 Shares of PTC Inc | 235,263 | 235,263 |
| 5400 Shares of NVIDIA Corp | 667,116 | 667,116 |
| 1023 Shares of Salesforce Inc | 263,013 | 263,013 |
| 606 Shares of First Solar Inc | 136,629 | 136,629 |
| 742 Shares of TE Connectivity Ltd | 111,619 | 111,619 |
| 136 Shares of Broadcom Inc | 218,352 | 218,352 |
| 517 Shares of Palo Alto Networks Com | 175,268 | 175,268 |
| 479 Shares of Arista Networks Inc | 167,880 | 167,880 |
| 2845 Shares of NextEra Energy Inc | 201,454 | 201,454 |
| 5968 Shares of MP Materials Corp Com Cl A | 75,973 | 75,973 |
| 1592 Shares of Houlihan Lokey, Inc. | 214,697 | 214,697 |
| 1183 Shares of Chart Industries Inc | 170,754 | 170,754 |
| 9443 Shares of Bloom Energy Corp A | 115,582 | 115,582 |
| 2092 Shares of GXO Logistics Inc | 105,646 | 105,646 |
| 4205 Shares of HA Sustainable Infra Cap | 124,468 | 124,468 |
| 3320 Shares of NextEra Energy Partners LP | 91,764 | 91,764 |
| Category / Item | Cost / Other Basis | Accumulated Depreciation | Book Value | End of Year Fair Market Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Equipment | 7,737 | 7,121 | 616 | 616 |
| Funiture and Fixtures | 4,619 | 1,963 | 2,656 | 2,656 |
| Description | Beginning of Year - Book Value | End of Year - Book Value | End of Year - Fair Market Value |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gifts of Future Interest | 149,271 | 65,226 | 65,226 |
| Beneficial Interest in Perpetual Trusts | 2,531,315 | 2,734,844 | 2,734,844 |
| Right-of-use assets - operating lease | 237,854 | 362,917 | 362,917 |
| Program Related Investments | 200,015 | 200,015 | 200,015 |
| Description | Revenue and Expenses per Books | Net Investment Income | Adjusted Net Income | Disbursements for Charitable Purposes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Advertising Expense | 36,181 | 0 | 0 | 31,424 |
| Miscellaneous Expense | 4,204 | 0 | 0 | 4,204 |
| Office Expenses | 15,841 | 0 | 0 | 15,841 |
| Information Technology | 11,083 | 0 | 0 | 11,083 |
| Program Expenses | 21,640 | 0 | 0 | 21,640 |
| Description | Revenue And Expenses Per Books | Net Investment Income | Adjusted Net Income |
|---|---|---|---|
| Program Revenue | 43,860 | 43,860 | |
| Other Income | 925 | 925 | |
| Income From Perpetual Trusts And Other Gifts Of Future Interests | 101,117 | 0 |
| Description | Amount |
|---|---|
| Unrealized Gain on Investments | 2,168,240 |
| Change in Value of Beneficial Interest in Perpetual Trust | 204,983 |
| Description | Beginning of Year - Book Value | End of Year - Book Value |
|---|---|---|
| Lease Liability - Operating Lease, net of operation | 241,147 | 359,926 |
| Category | Amount | Net Investment Income | Adjusted Net Income | Disbursements for Charitable Purposes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Investment Management Fees | 74,465 | 74,465 | 74,465 | 0 |
| Other Professional Fees | 131,788 | 0 | 0 | 121,649 |
| Category | Amount | Net Investment Income | Adjusted Net Income | Disbursements for Charitable Purposes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Federal Excise Tax | 4,473 | 0 | 0 | 4,473 |