Texas · Nonprofit
PEACE THROUGH COMMERCE INC
PEACE THROUGH COMMERCE INC (Texas) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $118,156 to it, the largest being Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Metrowest NJ ($50,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 75% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $28k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $118k
- Net assets
- $261k
What Peace Through Commerce Inc does
Mission
Peace Through Commerce is a strategic global and educational organization dedicated to creating a world where all people enjoy peace and prosperity. We use our proprietary Matrix of Peace Services for society building, peacebuilding, and problem-solving.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Matrix of Peace education, training and implementation. This framework embodies our peacebuilding technology. It is a multi-sector, whole-systems, consciousness-raising framework for designing and actualizing peaceful societies. We have used it in our co-partnerships with the Norwegian Nobel Institute. We have also used it as our training model with incubators Shakti Leadership and Alumni and Donors Unite. The biggest activity this year has been the near completion of a three-volume treatise on the framework. Volumes 1,2 and 3 cover Matrix theory, model and technology, respectively. The books are slated for publication in Spring 2025. The book has received a foreward by John Mackey, co-founder of Whole Foods Market and Love.Life, and an afterword by Dr. Timothy Fort, 2024 Nobel Peace Prize nominee. Expenses for consulting fees and rent: noncash $86,379. Revenue: noncash donation: $86,379
$34,781 spent$34,206 earned by the program92% of program spendingShakti Incubator for Shakti Leadership training. PTC became the for the sixth year the legal and financial parent of the Shakti Leadership program led by Nilima Bhat, who also served on the advisory board of PTC, co-led by Rajendra Sisodia, co-author of the book on Shakti Leadership, Embracing the Feminine and Masculine Power. Expenses for consulting fees and rent: noncash $1,391. Revenue earmarked: $1,391.
$2,477 spent$324 earned by the program7% of program spendingThe Matrix of Peace Show. We launched this live-streamed show in November 2023. It is produced by public broadcasting nonprofit ThinkTech Hawaii, Inc. ThinkTech Hawaii is a Hawaii nonprofit founded in 2001 and dedicated to raising public awareness through civic engagement by citizen journalist hosts and guests on digital media platforms. ThinkTech has produced many thousands of talk shows and short feature movies and streams 30 live talk shows every week covering subjects of interest to the Hawaii community and beyond. Peace Through Commerce produced its first two shows in 2023. They showcased the work of our Israeli and Palestinian partners in Israel in the aftermath of the October 7, 2023 invasion of Israel by Hamas. The second show earned an award for "Best Guest." This was a huge honor for our guest, our work with the guest and our work with the new show. The show can be found at https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQpkwcNJny6n4fM53EGj4u2ilPWXUKI15 Expenses for producing three shows: $450 Noncash donations: $450
$450 spent$450 earned by the program1% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $37,708.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $240k to $250k (+4%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
100% of PEACE THROUGH COMMERCE INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Philomena Blees
Director, CEO, President
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $5k → $51.
4 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 75% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of PEACE THROUGH COMMERCE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
PEACE THROUGH COMMERCE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 42% of grant income and the top three 80%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
75% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund PEACE THROUGH COMMERCE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 71% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
75% of PEACE THROUGH COMMERCE INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $30k that is directly attributable, 83% of it comes from funders outside Texas, across 2 states.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $88k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
PEACE THROUGH COMMERCE INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,933 international nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,933 international nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like PEACE THROUGH COMMERCE INC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds PEACE THROUGH COMMERCE INC?
- PEACE THROUGH COMMERCE INC (Texas) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $118,156 to it, the largest being Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Metrowest NJ ($50,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 75% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does PEACE THROUGH COMMERCE INC have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $118,156 in grants to PEACE THROUGH COMMERCE INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PEACE THROUGH COMMERCE INC?
- Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Metrowest NJ is the largest funder on record, with $50,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PEACE THROUGH COMMERCE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 6 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing