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PERCEPTION FUNDING INC

PERCEPTION FUNDING INC (Missouri) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $517,039 to it, the largest being Servant Foundation ($114,673). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 92% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2023
$3.8M
Funders on record
16
Grants received
$517k
Net assets
$600k
9/16 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 3%
01What it does

What Perception Funding Inc does

Mission

The mission of Perception Funding is to serve our ministry partners in order to grow the Kingdom of God. We do this by teaching them how to engage donors effectively and assisting them in their fundraising efforts.

As stated on its FY2023 Form 990.

Programs

  1. GiveDignity is a project based in Costa Rica that helps restore the dignity of those living in marginalized communities through holistic development initiatives to support employment, education and prevention of abuse and human trafficking.

    $140,266 spent$153,815 earned by the program
    4% of program spending
  2. Living Missions Peru is a Peruvian project coordinating short-term missions projects to share the good news of Jesus Christ with the people of Peru. They partner with a dozen different churches, schools and clinics to help meet their needs. They also lead churches from the United States to come and serve along side them.

    $178,667 spent$169,807 earned by the program
    5% of program spending
  3. VIANOVA aims to have a significant impact on sharing the Gospel of Jesus with all people in Belgium and all around the world. We believe one of the best ways to do this is planting more Churches that are led by relational, local, community-focused pastors with experience in mentoring and disciplining people in the way of Jesus.

    $161,323 spent$186,430 earned by the program
    5% of program spending
  4. Total of other service programs

    $3,021,351 spent$2,853,762 earned by the program
    86% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,501,607.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($1.1M) Expenses 100 ($1.2M) Net assets 100 ($352k)2018 Revenue 133 ($1.5M) Expenses 125 ($1.5M) Net assets 118 ($415k)2019 Revenue 176 ($2.0M) Expenses 169 ($2.0M) Net assets 134 ($472k)2020 Revenue 192 ($2.2M) Expenses 187 ($2.2M) Net assets 144 ($506k)2021 Revenue 264 ($3.0M) Expenses 240 ($2.8M) Net assets 212 ($747k)2022 Revenue 263 ($3.0M) Expenses 266 ($3.1M) Net assets 192 ($677k)2023 Revenue 331 ($3.8M) Expenses 334 ($3.9M) Net assets 171 ($600k)
2017201820192020202120222023
Revenue (331)Expenses (334)Net assets (171)Peer revenue range

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 $482k to $747k (+55%).

$352k
$415k
$472k
$482k
$747k
$677k
$600k
2017201820192020202120222023
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

0% of PERCEPTION FUNDING INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (90% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 2,735 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

−$14k
’17
$65k
’18
$56k
’19
$35k
’20
$240k
’21
−$69k
’22
−$77k
’23
0.6
months of
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

Jonathan Klee

President/Executive Director

As listed on its FY2023 Form 990.

2017201820192020202120222023
Listed5444444
Joined·+1+0+0+0+0+1
No longer listed·200001
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 7 funders, grant income rose $11k → $130k.

10 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 92% 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 PERCEPTION FUNDING 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

PERCEPTION FUNDING INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 22% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left

95% 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 PERCEPTION FUNDING INC.

22%
largest funder
58%
top three
~7
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 75% · 2019 100% · 2020 41% · 2021 51% · 2022 27% · 2023 28% — diversifying over time.

“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.

How long its funders stay

71% of PERCEPTION FUNDING INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

92% of PERCEPTION FUNDING 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 $43k that is directly attributable, 82% of it comes from funders outside Missouri, across 5 states.

CA
MO
KY
KS
TX

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’18
’20
’21
’22
’23
Missouri out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $474k arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

PERCEPTION FUNDING INC has grown faster than half of the 2,187 religion nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−2% · below the median
Months of reserve0.6mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)22% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,187 religion nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2023

Organizations like PERCEPTION FUNDING 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 Missouri

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

90% of spending goes to programs.

Program 90%Management 10%Fundraising 0%

Governance

4
board members
0%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MO

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Questions and answers

Who funds PERCEPTION FUNDING INC?
PERCEPTION FUNDING INC (Missouri) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $517,039 to it, the largest being Servant Foundation ($114,673). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 92% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does PERCEPTION FUNDING INC have?
IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $517,039 in grants to PERCEPTION FUNDING INC, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of PERCEPTION FUNDING INC?
Servant Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $114,673 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like PERCEPTION FUNDING INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Missouri. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2023 (financials across 2017–2023), and the filings of 16 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