I thought the big money came from the conservative churches.
I've been wondering about this as well. Here is something I found elsewhere:
"Mrs. Schori downplays what she calls a tiny but influential number of churches, from Virginia to California, as being little more than "one-half of 1% of the 7,200 congregations," which, she says, have spurned her leadership and the liberal direction of the Episcopal Church to align with Southern Hemisphere traditionalists. What she omitted to say is, while the parishes might be few, the numbers of Episcopalians leaving is huge. For example, the departure of Christ Church, Plano, in the Diocese of Dallas, was the equivalent of the entire Diocese of Nevada!
The parishes leaving are often large cardinal parishes which, by their departure, can and do affect the finances of the diocese, as in the case of the Diocese of Northwest Texas, where Bishop Wallis Ohl faces a major crisis with the departure of his three largest parishes. The Diocese of Kansas lost its largest donor parish, but Bishop Dean Wolfe cut a deal to get income for ten years from Christ Church, Overland Park, and its 1100 parishioners, with Wolfe admitting that the departure of Christ Church put a financial strain on the diocesan budget. His diocesan administrator admitted that of the remaining 49 parishes, a third have fewer than 100 members and cannot survive without diocesan assistance.
Mrs. Schori is strangely silent about diocesan financial loses.
To hear her talk, the future of her denomination is brighter every day with many "healthy, vital churches." This is pure fantasy. The "healthy, vital churches" are leaving the TEC. Look what has happened in the Diocese of Florida. Nearly all the largest parishes have left that diocese, leaving only small parishes and missions to prop up the bishop and the fantasy of MDG's Mrs. Schori hopes will save the world. In the Diocese of Pennsylvania, the finances are such a mess that the diocese can only offer the national church about $200,000 instead of the $700,000 Charles Bennison would like to give to support Mrs. Schori's "vision."
http://www.virtueonline.org/portal/modules/news/article.php?storyid=5477