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Deus Et Musica Fund at a glance

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Deus Et Musica Fund

Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$676k
Granted FY2023
2
Grants FY2023
2
States reached
$636k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

94% of Deus Et Musica Fund’s FY2023 grant dollars went to Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2023 names 1 organization directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.

Organizations named directly on the return

4
’17
4
’18
2
’19
3
’20
1
’21
1
’22
1
’23

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.

Philanthropy$636kArts & Culture$415kReligion$193kEducation$175kOther$0
02FY2023 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2023

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $40k
  • $250k+1 grant · $636k
$636,331
Median grant
2
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc$636,331
Ocean Reef Cultural Center$40,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 76% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 14%ROOMFUL OF TEETH: $10k → 12%SERVING LEADERS MINISTRIES: $35k → 6%PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION: $125k → 22%Ocean Reef Cultural Center: $40k → 13%Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc: $636k → 16%STUART COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL OF THE SACRED HEART: $100k → 11%FRIENDSHIP MINISTRIES FDN: $33k → 6%PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION: $125k → 22%SERVING LEADERS MINISTRIES: $25k → 6%PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION: $100k → 22%FRIENDSHIP MINISTRIES FDN: $20k → 6%PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION: $10k → 22%SERVING LEADERS MINISTRIES: $20k → 6%AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY: $25k → 22%FRIENDSHIP MINISTRIES FDN: $20k → 6%SERVING LEADER MINISTRIES: $10k → 6%ST JOHN'S PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $5k → 6%UPTOWN KNAUER PERFORMING ARTS CENTER: $5k → 6%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

66%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$523k · 3 repeat orgs$270k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +52% since the first grant, against +8% for those funded once.

3 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2023, 3 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
7

Total granted

$523k
$230k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+52%
+8%

Still filing today

100%
43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
Arts & CultureReligionEducationOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION
    4× · 2017–2020 · $360k · revenue +52%
  • SM
    SERVINGLEADERS MINISTRIES INC
    4× · 2017–2022 · $90k · revenue +76%
  • FM
    FRIENDSHIP MINISTRIES FOUNDATION
    3× · 2017–2019 · $73k · revenue -99%

Funded once

  • SC
    STUART COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL OF THE SACRED HEART
    one grant, 2019 · $100k
  • FT
    FULLER THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY
    one grant, 2018 · $75k · revenue +8%
  • AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY
    one grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue -20%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
The Philadelphia Orchestra and Kimmel Center Inc

Pokc was formed for charitable and educational purposes and is dedicated to the promotion of the arts.

Arts & Culture
2
Kimmel Center Inc

The kimmel center inc, d/b/a ensemble arts philly's mission is to share the transformative power of the performing arts and arts education with the widest possible audience.

Arts & Culture
3
Global Media Outreach

Leveraging technology to invite all people to know jesus christ as savior and grow in a personal relationship with him.

Religion
4
Kingdom Advisors Inc

Kingdom advisors is a discipleship ministry serving christian financial professionals. the organization encourages, educates, and empowers christian financial professionals with biblical wisdom to be effective disciples of jesus christ in…

Religion
5
Peacemaker Ministries

To equip and assist christians and their churches to respond to conflict biblically.

International
6
Christianity Today International

Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.

Religion
7
Forum of Christian Leaders

The Forum of Christian Leaders (FOCL) exists to unite, equip, and resource global evangelical leaders toward the end of world evangelism and the renewal of the Biblical church.

Religion
8
Precept

Engaging people in relationship with God through knowing His Word

Religion
9
Reformed University Inc

Provide education in theology, divinity, religious education, ministerial training, business and organizational leadership.

Education
10
The Christian Century

Publication of religious magazine.

Arts & Culture
11
The King's University

The King's University integrates Biblical education and practical ministry to shape Spirit-formed individuals who follow Jesus, serve His Church, and are sent to impact the world.

Education
12
Andre Roebert Ministries Inc

We will spread the word of god through our workshops, conferences, publications, and broadcasts. we are currently invited to travel and preach to many different churches and non churches as a guest speaker.

Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Servingleaders Ministries Inc; the most unlike its peers is American Bible Society. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

8 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 12 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
5/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc: $636,331 · PhilanthropyRenaissance Charitable Foundation IncPHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION: $360,000 · Arts & CulturePHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATI…OCEAN REEF CULTURAL CENTER INC: $40,000 · Arts & CultureOCEAN REEF CULTURAL CENTER INC+1 more: $5,000 · Arts & CultureSTUART COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL OF THE SACRED HEART: $100,000 · OtherSTUART COUNTRY …FRIENDSHIP MINISTRIES FOUNDATION: $72,500 · OtherFRIENDSHIP MINI…Individual grant recipient: $10,000 · OtherUniv of Miami Frost School of Music Choral Studies: $10,000 · Other+1 more: $5,000 · OtherSERVINGLEADERS MINISTRIES INC: $90,000 · ReligionSERVINGLE…AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY: $25,000 · ReligionAMERICAN …FULLER THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY: $75,000 · Education
Philanthropy$636,331Arts & Culture$405,000Other$197,500Religion$115,000Education$75,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetRenaissance Charitable Foundation Inc: $636,331 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION: $360,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetSERVINGLEADERS MINISTRIES INC: $90,000 over 4y, 5.0% of budgetFULLER THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY: $75,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOCEAN REEF CULTURAL CENTER INC: $40,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetAMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUPTOWN KNAUER PERFORMING ARTS CENTER: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Vanguard Charitable E…Fidelity Investments …
Vanguard Charitable Endowment ProgramPA9.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Deus Et Musica Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Deus Et Musica Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

2023
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 12 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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