Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
PREAMBULA GROUP
PREAMBULA GROUP (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,484,614 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($1,133,065). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 96% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $407k
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $1.5M
- Net assets
- $90k
What Preambula Group does
Mission
Preambula Group is a non-profit lay apostolate that provides formation and training to individuals and organizations for the work of the new evangelization.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
On its FY2024 return the organization reported a significant change in how it conducts a program.
During 2024, preambla combined all programs into one continuous set of offerings to parishes called discipleship roadmap. The metanoia project was integrated into the other parish programs.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 3).
Discipleship roadmap: Preambula Group is a lay apostolate that exists to support the formation and growth of catholic disciples for the work of the new evangelization. Our work is focused on making our parishes and their faithful engaged in their encounters with christ through education, group study and prayer so that they will become disciples and build up parish life in the region and the church at large. Formation activities are conducted through the way, on fire, and your mission programs. Continued on schedule othe way is the first step in a continuum of guided experiences for people to discover what wonderful things jesus will do for them if they trust him to lead them to a wholehearted and joyful life. Over a live eight-week group experience, participants learn the authentically christian way to a deeper personal connection with god, interior freedom, a resilient faith, and the fullness of life. On fire is a six-month experience that calls disciples to journey with others to deepen their relationship with god and discern how god is calling them to be missionary disciples for the church. Upon completion of the on fire program, participants may journey for an additional six…
$491,572 spent$177,382 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $491,572.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2023 to 2024, from $282k to $101k (−64%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 4% · 2022 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
56% of PREAMBULA GROUP’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue 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. 1 of the last 6 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
Michel Therrien
President, CEO, director
Board chair
Ed Gill
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $5k → $254k.
6 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 96% 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 PREAMBULA GROUP’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
PREAMBULA GROUP leans on a few funders — its largest provides 76% of grant income and the top three 93%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
96% 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 PREAMBULA GROUP.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 67% · 2022 89% · 2023 89% — 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
50% of PREAMBULA GROUP's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 70% give in more than one year at all.
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
96% of PREAMBULA GROUP'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 $67k that is directly attributable, 83% of it comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
PREAMBULA GROUP has grown faster than half of the 12,816 religion nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,816 religion nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like PREAMBULA GROUP
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 Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
92%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds PREAMBULA GROUP?
- PREAMBULA GROUP (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,484,614 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($1,133,065). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 96% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does PREAMBULA GROUP have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $1,484,614 in grants to PREAMBULA GROUP, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PREAMBULA GROUP?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,133,065 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PREAMBULA GROUP find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 2019–2024), and the filings of 10 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