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The Philos Project Inc

THE PHILOS PROJECT INC.

$238k
Granted FY2024still arriving
2
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$171k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$3.9MReligion$1.5MCivil Rights$852kInternational$114kPhilanthropy$66k
02FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 2 grants below total $191,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $237,758 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $46,758 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $171k
$171,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$500k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HOMBRES DE PALABRA$171,000
TEACH FOR ISRAEL$20,000
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 (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 34% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conf: $100k → 12%YESHIVA UNIVERSITY: $101k → 17%THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA: $29k → 14%Latino Coalition for Israel: $100k → 13%TEACH FOR ISRAEL: $20k → 15%Passages America Israel Inc: $3.7M → 7%IRAQI CHRISTIAN RELIEF COUNCIL: $16k → 14%HOMBRES DE PALABRA: $171k → 8%PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $66k → 17%Institute on Religion and Democracy: $252k → 14%New Wine Ministries Church Inc: $50k → 13%Passages America Israel Inc: $74k → 7%Iraqi Christian Relief Council: $13k → 14%HOMBRES DE PALABRA: $137k → 8%PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $66k → 17%Institute on Religion and Democracy: $250k → 14%LATINO COALITION FOR ISRAEL: $50k → 13%HOMBRES DE PALABRA: $136k → 8%Ohr Torah Stone Institutions of Israel: $35k → 17%THE INSTITUTE ON RELIGION AND DEMOCRACY INC: $100k → 14%HOMBRES DE PALABRA: $75k → 8%THE KING'S COLLEGE: $200k → 17%THE INSTITUTE ON RELIGION AND DEMOCRACY INC: $100k → 14%THE KING'S COLLEGE: $154k → 17%Foundation Stone Institute Inc: $200k → 14%THE KING'S COLLEGE: $144k → 17%THE KING'S COLLEGE: $92k → 17%CENTER FOR HEBRAIC THOUGHT: $45k → 17%THE KING'S COLLEGE: $15k → 17%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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.8M · 6 repeat orgs$579k to everyone else

6 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
7

Total granted

$5.8M
$559k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+6%
+16%

Still filing today

100%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k 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
EducationReligionCivil RightsInternationalOther
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

  • PA
    PASSAGES AMERICA ISRAEL INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $3.8M · revenue +61% · 45% of their budget
  • IO
    INSTITUTE ON RELIGION & DEMOCRACY INC
    4× · 2017–2020 · $702k · revenue +17%
  • HD
    Hombres de Palabra
    4× · 2021–2024 · $519k · revenue +5% · 84% of their budget

Funded once

  • FS
    FOUNDATION STONE INSTITUTE INC
    one grant, 2017 · $200k · 46% of their budget
  • YU
    YESHIVA UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2023 · $101k · revenue +16%
  • NH
    National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conferencegraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $100k · revenue +124%
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
Sherit Isroel
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2
Yeshiva Ohr Yisroel
Philanthropy
3
Jerusalem Seminary

Motivated by the knowledge that the Word of the Lord will go forth from Jerusalem to the Nations, and guided by a commitment to read the New Testament in its first century context, Jerusalem Seminary provides cutting-edge ministry training…

Religion
4
Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary

To prepare students for the rabbinate and to issue the traditional certificate of ordination in connection therewith. the seminary is authorized to confer the degree of master of hebrew literature (m.h.l.), doctor of hebrew literature…

Education
5
Wexner Foundation
—
6
Israel Restoration Ministries
Religion
7
Mesorah Heritage Foundation

The foundation's mission is to research, locate, translate, and create jewish religious, literary, biblical, and talmudic works for religious, scholarly and cultural purposes for the general public.

Arts & Culture
8
Instituto De Estudios Teologicos

Conference

Education
9
Torah Temimah Jerusalem

The school trains advanced talmudic scholars, enabling them to become high level teachers and religious leaders in israel and the united states using specific methodology combining traditional talmudic study with innovative learning…

Education
10
Messianic Jewish Bible Institute Inc

The mjbi educates and empowers messianic jewish believers in yeshua jesus for the prophetic restoration of israel in 7 countries and 21 schools globally. additionally, mjbi educates the church on the jewish roots of christianity through…

—
11
Foundation for Conservative Judiasm of South Florida
—
12
Ohr Olam Corp

publish religious books

Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Foundation Stone Institute Inc; the most unlike its peers is Hombres de Palabra. 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

13 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. 13 of the 15 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/13
Grantees still filing
9/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PASSAGES AMERICA ISRAEL INC: $3,800,089 · EducationPASSAGES AMERICA ISRAEL INCThe King's College: $604,501 · EducationThe King's College+2 more: $129,092 · EducationINSTITUTE ON RELIGION & DEMOCRACY INC: $702,000 · Civil RightsINSTITUTE ON R…Latino Coalition For Israel: $150,000 · Civil RightsLatino Coaliti…Hombres de Palabra: $518,500 · ReligionHombres de …National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference: $100,000 · ReligionNational Hi…Ohr Torah Stone Institutions of Israel: $35,000 · ReligionIRAQI CHRISTIAN RELIEF COUNCIL: $28,327 · ReligionFOUNDATION STONE INSTITUTE INC: $200,000 · OtherNEW WINE MINISTRIES CHURCH INC: $50,000 · OtherCENTER FOR HEBRAIC THOUGHT: $45,000 · OtherPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $131,974 · PhilanthropyTeach for Israel Inc: $20,000 · International
Education$4,533,682Civil Rights$852,000Religion$681,827Other$295,000Philanthropy$131,974International$20,000

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 budgetPASSAGES AMERICA ISRAEL INC: $3,800,089 over 2y, 45% of budgetINSTITUTE ON RELIGION & DEMOCRACY INC: $702,000 over 4y, 7.0% of budgetThe King's College: $604,501 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetHombres de Palabra: $518,500 over 4y, 84% of budgetFOUNDATION STONE INSTITUTE INC: $200,000 over 1y, 46% of budgetLatino Coalition For Israel: $150,000 over 2y, 24% of budgetPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $131,974 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetYESHIVA UNIVERSITY: $100,580 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOhr Torah Stone Institutions of Israel: $35,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTHE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA: $28,512 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIRAQI CHRISTIAN RELIEF COUNCIL: $28,327 over 2y, 4.1% of budgetTeach for Israel Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.8% 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.

Donors Trust IncNational Philanthropi…Natl Christian Charit…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Donors Trust IncVA13.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Donors Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · 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 The Philos Project Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Philos Project Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to The Philos Project Inc?

    Find your warmest path to The Philos Project 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 15 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 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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