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Psalms of Life Inc at a glance

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Psalms of Life Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$91k
Granted FY2024still arriving
10
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$25k
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, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$189kRecreation & Sports$78kArts & Culture$76kHealth$76kInternational$46kReligion$28kFood & Nutrition$22kHuman Services$18kOther$0
02FY2024 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k6 grants · $21k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $70k
$6,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$1.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HAITIAN GLOBAL HEALTH ALLIANCE$25,000
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA$25,000
BIG CITY MOUNTAINEERS$10,000
GOLDEN CORNER FOOD PANTRY$10,000
FOOTHILLS AREA YMCA$6,000
THE HACK FOUNDATION$5,000
FLORIDA CHILDRENS THEATRE$3,750
CARRBORO HIGH SCHOOL ATHLETIC BOOST$3,000
THE SUMMIT CHURCH$2,300
LEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY$1,000
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:

Its human-services grants (FY18–24, $38k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%GOLDEN CORNER FOOD PANTRY: $12k → 17%GOLDEN CORNER FOOD PANTRY: $10k → 17%FOOTHILLS AREA YMCA: $6k → 17%SHERIDAN HOUSE FAMILY MINISTRIES: $10k → 13%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

NY
PA
CA
CO
NC
SC
AL
GA
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.

38%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$218k · 8 repeat orgs$351k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +56% since the first grant, against +56% for those funded once.

8 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
25

Total granted

$218k
$287k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+56%
+56%

Still filing today

88%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 29% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $64k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationReligionHealthArts & CulturePhilanthropyOther
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

  • TF
    THE FORT LAUDERDALE CHILDREN'S THEATRE INC
    4× · 2018–2024 · $46k · revenue +56%
  • MC
    MEYER CENTER FOR SPECIAL CHILDREN
    2× · 2021–2022 · $41k · revenue +46%
  • BC
    BIG CITY MOUNTAINEERS
    3× · 2020–2024 · $25k · revenue +77%

Funded once

  • AU
    AUBURN UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2023 · $30k
  • SC
    Savannah College of Art and DesignIncgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $26k · revenue +71%
  • AU
    AUBURN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $26k · revenue +83%
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
Greenville College

Greenville college d/b/a greenville university empowers students for lives of character and service through a transforming christ-centered education in the liberal arts, sciences, and professional studies.

Education
2
Houghton University

Houghton university provides an academically challenging, christ-centered education in the liberal arts and sciences to students from diverse traditions and economic backgrounds and equips them to lead and labor as scholar-servants in a…

Education
3
Florida Community Health Centers Inc

Florida community health centers, inc. (fchc) is a federally qualified health center serving medically needy populations in south florida, with an emphasis on serving rural and farm worker communities.

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4
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
5
Southern Wesleyan University

Southern wesleyan university is a christ-centered, student-focused learning community devoted to transforming lives by challenging students to be dedicated scholars and servant-leaders who impact the world for christ.

Education
6
Houston Christian University

The mission of houston christian university is to provide a learning experience that instills in students a passion for academic, spiritual, and professional excellence as a result of our central confession, "jesus christ is lord."

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7
Holy Cross Hospital Inc

We, holy cross hospital and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. holy cross hospital is a member of trinity health.

Health
8
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
9
Greensboro College

Greensboro College provides a liberal arts education grounded in the traditions of the United Methodist Church and fosters the intellectual, social, and spiritual development of all students while supporting their individual needs.

Education
10
Dallas International University

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

Education
11
Children's Healthcare of Atlanta Inc

To make kids better today and healthier tomorrow.

Health
12
Good Samaritan Hospital Foundation

We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.

—
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Agape Network Inc; the most unlike its peers is Christ in the Rockies. 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

21 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. 21 of the 39 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/21
Grantees still filing
14/21
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MEYER CENTER FOR SPECIAL CHILDREN: $41,250 · OtherMEYER CENTER FOR SPECIAL CHILDRENAUBURN UNIVERSITY: $30,000 · OtherAUBURN UNIVERSITYNORTH CAROLINA A&T UNIVERSITY: $25,000 · OtherNORTH CAROLINA A&T UNIVERSITYUNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA: $25,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDANC SCHOOL OF SCIENCE & MATH FNDN: $25,000 · OtherNC SCHOOL OF SCIENCE & MATH FNDNCARRBORO HIGH SCHOOL ATHLETIC BOOST: $23,000 · OtherCARRBORO HIGH SCHOOL ATHLETIC BOOSTIndividual grant recipient: $16,000 · OtherSAMARITAN HEALTH CENTER INC: $18,500 · OtherSAMARITAN HEALTH CENTER INC+18 more: $101,600 · Other+18 moreSavannah College of Art and DesignInc: $26,250 · EducationSavannah Colle…AUBURN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $26,000 · EducationAUBURN UNIVERS…GETTYSBURG COLLEGE: $15,000 · EducationGETTYSBURG COL…WESTMINSTER CHRISTIAN PRIVATE SCHOOL INC: $5,000 · EducationWESTMINSTER CH…GOLDEN CORNER FOOD PANTRY: $21,500 · Human ServicesGOLDEN CORN…SERVEHAITI INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesSERVEHAITI …SHERIDAN HOUSE FAMILY MINISTRIES INC: $12,000 · Human ServicesSHERIDAN HO…FOOTHILLS AREA YMCA: $6,000 · Human ServicesFOOTHILLS A…THE FORT LAUDERDALE CHILDREN'S THEATRE INC: $46,350 · Arts & CultureTHE FORT …CHRIST IN THE ROCKIES: $30,000 · ReligionCALL COMMUNICATIONS GROUP INC: $5,000 · ReligionHAITIAN GLOBAL HEALTH ALLIANCE: $25,000 · PhilanthropyBIG CITY MOUNTAINEERS: $25,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$305,350Education$72,250Human Services$59,500Arts & Culture$46,350Religion$35,000Philanthropy$25,000Recreation & Sports$25,000

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 budgetTHE FORT LAUDERDALE CHILDREN'S THEATRE INC: $46,350 over 4y, 3.1% of budgetMEYER CENTER FOR SPECIAL CHILDREN: $41,250 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCHRIST IN THE ROCKIES: $30,000 over 3y, 10% of budgetSavannah College of Art and DesignInc: $26,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAUBURN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $26,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHAITIAN GLOBAL HEALTH ALLIANCE: $25,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetBIG CITY MOUNTAINEERS: $25,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetGOLDEN CORNER FOOD PANTRY: $21,500 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetSERVEHAITI INC: $20,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetSAMARITAN HEALTH CENTER INC: $18,500 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetGETTYSBURG COLLEGE: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHERIDAN HOUSE FAMILY MINISTRIES INC: $12,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAGAPE NETWORK INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBONEFISH & TARPON TRUST INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFOOTHILLS AREA YMCA: $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE HACK FOUNDATION D/B/A HACK CLUB: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCALL COMMUNICATIONS GROUP INC: $5,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetWESTMINSTER CHRISTIAN PRIVATE SCHOOL INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRESCUE MISSIONS MINISTRIES INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE INTERNATIONAL: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Natl Christian Charit…Duke Energy FoundationEnterprise Holdings F…Charities Aid Foundat…The Blackbaud Giving …American Online Givin…Morgan Stanley Global…The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Natl Christian Charitable Fdn IncGA13.4× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Psalms of Life Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Psalms of Life Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 22%
  • Agape Network Inc: 22% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
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 Psalms of Life Inc?

Find your warmest path to Psalms of Life Inc 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 39 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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