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Psalm 103 Foundation at a glance

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Psalm 103 Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$8.4M
Granted FY2024still arriving
46
Grants FY2024still arriving
13
States reached
$2.8M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Education$18MReligion$4.0MInternational$3.8MPhilanthropy$2.3MYouth Development$1.7MHealth$1.1MCrime & Legal$1.0MHousing & Shelter$800kOther$0
02FY2024 · 46 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k6 grants · $33k
  • $10k–50k12 grants · $293k
  • $50k–250k19 grants · $2.0M
  • $250k+9 grants · $6.1M
$75,000
Median grant
13
States reached
$128M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
EASTERN UNIVERISTY$2,750,000
VANGUARD CHARITABLE$1,000,000
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC$550,000
THE CITY SCHOOL$350,000
FOREIGN POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE$350,000
EASTERN UNIVERISTY$350,000
PHILLY HOUSE (FKA SUNDAY BREAKFAST ASSOCIATION OF PHILADELPHIA)$250,000
UPENN$250,000
PRISON FELLOWSHIP MINISTRIES$250,000
PHILADELPHIA SKATING CLUB AND HUMANE SOCIETY$241,761
WORLD VISION$200,000
WILLIAMSON COLLEGE OF THE TRADES$166,667
ASSOCIATION OF CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS INTERNATIONAL$148,000
AMERICAN TRAUMA SOCIETY PA DIV$125,000
SAM INC$100,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY24–24, $250k) land where the poverty rate runs at 22%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%PHILLY HOUSE (FKA SUNDAY BREAKFAST ASSOCIATION OF PHILADELPHIA): $250k → 22%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.

Which US states its grants reach

NH
WA
IL
MI
NY
MA
WY
PA
NJ
RI
CA
UT
CO
MO
VA
TN
DC
GA
TX
FL
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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$30M · 36 repeat orgs$4.1M to everyone else

36 repeat relationships: 26 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

36
27

Total granted

$30M
$2.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+50%
+52%

Still filing today

61%
59%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.7M went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
EducationInternationalReligionHealthPublic BenefitArts & CultureOther
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

  • EU
    EASTERN UNIVERSITY
    4× · 2020–2024 · $4.4M · revenue +83%
  • PF
    PRISON FELLOWSHIP MINISTRIES
    4× · 2020–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +59%
  • HF
    HABITAT FOR HUMANITY PHILADELPHIA INC
    4× · 2020–2024 · $800k · revenue +123%

Funded once

  • UW
    UNITED WAY
    one grant, 2021 · $1.0M
  • TC
    THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $300k · revenue +30%
  • CC
    Christian Camps Inc dba Deerfoot Lodge & Subsidiarygraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $250k · revenue +52%
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
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
2
Evangel University

Evangel is a comprehensive christian university that is committed to excellence in educating and equipping students to become spirit empowered servants of god who will impact the church and society globally.

Education
3
Bibleproject

Bibleproject's mission is to help people experience the bible as a unified story that leads to jesus. this is achieved by creating biblical videos to be regularly released on a newly-created youtube channel. (continued on schedule o.)each…

Religion
4
Dallas International University

As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.

Education
5
Global Scholars

Global scholars exists so that christian academics are adequately equipped to have a redemptive influence among their students, colleagues, universities and disciplines, at a reasonable cost.

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6
Christel House International Inc

Chi prepares graduates of the christel house schools operated by its affiliated entities, which chi funds and oversees, to achieve upward economic mobility, demonstrate good citizenship, and become empowered to identify and realize their…

International
7
Mid-Atlantic Christian University

Mid-atlantic christian university is an undergraduate institution of christian higher learning whose mission is to impact the world by transforming ordinary people into extraordinary christian leaders. students are taught to think…

Education
8
Corus International Inc

TO MANAGE AN INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT, HEALTH, AND RELIEF FOCUSED FAMILY OF ORGANIZATIONS HELPING PEOPLE AND COMMUNITIES LIFT THEMSELVES OUT OF POVERTY, SUPPORT WELL-BEING OF INDIVIDUALS, FAMILIES AND COMMUNITIES, AND PROVIDE…

Human Services
9
Atlantic University Inc

Provide post-secondary education of excellence.

Education
10
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
11
Association of Catholic Colleges and University

The association of catholic colleges and universities, founded in 1899, serves as the collective voice of u.s catholic higher education. through programs and services, the association strengthens and promptes the catholic identity and…

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12
Blue Letter Bible

The specific purpose of this corporation is to present a biblical, christian ministry of the gospel, hope, encouragement and strength to as many people as possible. the intent of those who will conduct this corporation's work is to present…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ethics and Public Policy Center Inc; the most unlike its peers is Franklin County Humane 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

55 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. 55 of the 80 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.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
51/55
Grantees still filing
37/55
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

DELAWARE COUNTY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $11,350,000 · EducationDELAWARE COUNTY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL FOUNDATIONEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $4,400,000 · EducationEASTERN UNIVERSITYArtwell Collaborative Inc: $600,000 · Education+7 more: $941,267 · Education+7 moreVANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT: $2,275,000 · OtherVANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENTCRADLE OF LIBERTY COUNCIL 525 BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $1,577,648 · OtherCRADLE OF LIBERTY COUNCIL 525 BOY S…UNITED WAY: $1,000,000 · OtherUNITED WAYSACRED HEART OF JESUS PARISH: $675,000 · OtherSACRED HEART OF JESUS PARISHSAM INC: $525,000 · OtherAMERICAN TRAUMA SOCIETY PA DIV: $490,000 · Other+46 more: $4,713,837 · Other+46 moreFOREIGN POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $1,387,500 · InternationalFOREIGN POLI…African Mission Healthcare Foundation: $1,063,600 · InternationalAfrican Miss…WORLD VISION INC: $980,000 · InternationalWORLD VISION…Edify: $200,000 · International+4 more: $240,000 · International+4 moreVANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM: $1,000,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $10,000 · PhilanthropyPRISON FELLOWSHIP MINISTRIES: $1,000,000 · Crime & LegalACSI Education Foundation: $384,000 · ReligionLAUSANNE COMMITTEE FOR WORLD EVANGELIZATION: $190,000 · ReligionSERVINGLEADERS MINISTRIES INC: $100,015 · ReligionAMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY: $100,000 · ReligionCITYTEAM MINISTRIES: $95,000 · Religion+1 more: $25,000 · ReligionHABITAT FOR HUMANITY PHILADELPHIA INC: $800,000 · Housing & Shelter
Education$17,291,267Other$11,256,485International$3,871,100Philanthropy$1,010,000Crime & Legal$1,000,000Religion$894,015Housing & Shelter$800,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDELAWARE COUNTY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $11,350,000 over 3y, 100% of budgetEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $4,400,000 over 4y, 2.6% of budgetCRADLE OF LIBERTY COUNCIL 525 BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $1,577,648 over 4y, 8.6% of budgetFOREIGN POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $1,387,500 over 4y, 15% of budgetAfrican Mission Healthcare Foundation: $1,063,600 over 4y, 2.2% of budgetPRISON FELLOWSHIP MINISTRIES: $1,000,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetVANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM: $1,000,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD VISION INC: $980,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY PHILADELPHIA INC: $800,000 over 4y, 4.0% of budgetArtwell Collaborative Inc: $600,000 over 5y, 50% of budgetThe City School: $350,000 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetPHILADELPHIA SKATING CLUB & HUMANE SOCIE TY: $348,073 over 1y, 24% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $300,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION: $300,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWILLIAMSON COLLEGE OF THE TRADES: $268,267 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetPHILADELPHIA YOUTH ORCHESTRA: $255,000 over 4y, 3.8% of budgetActon Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty: $250,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetChristian Camps Inc dba Deerfoot Lodge & Subsidiary: $250,000 over 1y, 9.4% of budgetSUNDAY BREAKFAST RESCUE MISSION: $250,000 over 1y, 8.7% of budgetENCORE SERIES INC: $227,400 over 3y, 7.4% of budgetEdify: $200,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION FOR DRUG POLICY SOLUTIONS INC: $200,000 over 2y, 58% of budgetLAUSANNE COMMITTEE FOR WORLD EVANGELIZATION: $190,000 over 4y, 3.3% of budgetCAIRN UNIVERSITY: $150,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSERVINGLEADERS MINISTRIES INC: $100,015 over 4y, 3.8% of budgetFREEDOMS FOUNDATION AT VALLEY FORGE: $100,015 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHOPE WALKS INC: $100,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetCITYTEAM MINISTRIES: $95,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetA HAVEN: $67,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetINTERNATIONAL HEALTH SERVICES: $65,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetBAKER INDUSTRIES INC: $50,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetETHICS AND PUBLIC POLICY CENTER INC: $50,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE DECENCY FOUNDATION: $40,000 over 1y, 62% of budgetKUPENDA FOR THE CHILDREN: $30,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetCATHOLIC LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPARISH CATALYST: $25,000 over 1y, 7.9% of budgetAmerican Principles Project Foundation: $25,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetLIFENET INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCHESTER COUNTY FOOD BANK: $23,047 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetEastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma: $20,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetLibertas Network: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE GESU SCHOOL INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGLORIFY PERFORMING ARTS INC: $12,000 over 1y, 9.5% of budgetTom T East Sr and Alice K East and Alice H East and Robert C East Wildlife Fnd: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

Servant FoundationLindback Cr & Mf Foun…The Philadelphia Foun…Henry Dolfinger 2 Tru…Christian Community F…The William Penn Foun…Sanders Caroline J S …Doll Family FoundationJohn Templeton Founda…Tyndale House Ministr…Connelly FoundationUnited Way of Greater…
Servant FoundationKS18.1× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Servant Foundation · Lindback Cr & Mf Foundation Tw Main · The Philadelphia Foundation · Henry Dolfinger 2 Trust Uw · Christian Community Foundation Inc · The William Penn Foundation · Sanders Caroline J S Td No 2 · Doll Family Foundation · John Templeton Foundation · Tyndale House Ministries · Connelly Foundation · United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey

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 Psalm 103 Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Psalm 103 Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
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.
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How do I get to Psalm 103 Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Psalm 103 Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 80 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home