Virginia · Nonprofit
PRISON FELLOWSHIP MINISTRIES FOUNDATION
PRISON FELLOWSHIP MINISTRIES FOUNDATION (Virginia) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $373,120 to it, the largest being Barnabas Foundation ($270,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 95% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $8.7M
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $373k
- Net assets
- $38M
What Prison Fellowship Ministries Foundation does
Mission
The organization is organized and operated to support prison fellowship ministries (pfm) and other public charities whose work furthers pfm's purpose by managing and administering planned giving programs to support those ministries.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Prison Fellowship Ministries Foundation (pfmf) manages and administers a planned giving program in support of prison fellowship ministries (pfm). This planned giving program assists donors who want to contribute through various deferred giving arrangements in support of pfm. These arrangements include charitable trusts, donor advised funds, and estate bequests. Pfmf also supports the work of pfm financially.
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $29M to $39M (+34%).
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.
80% of PRISON FELLOWSHIP MINISTRIES FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (90% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 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.
Board chair
Douglas J Peterson
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income fell $277k → $20k.
5 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 95% 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 PRISON FELLOWSHIP MINISTRIES FOUNDATION’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
PRISON FELLOWSHIP MINISTRIES FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 72% of grant income and the top three 89%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
97% 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 PRISON FELLOWSHIP MINISTRIES FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 97% · 2018 77% · 2019 51% · 2020 93% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 39% — 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
14% of PRISON FELLOWSHIP MINISTRIES FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
95% of PRISON FELLOWSHIP MINISTRIES FOUNDATION'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 $20k that is directly attributable, 61% of it comes from funders outside Virginia, across 5 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $353k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
PRISON FELLOWSHIP MINISTRIES FOUNDATION has grown faster than three-quarters of the 1,325 religion nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,325 religion nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like PRISON FELLOWSHIP MINISTRIES FOUNDATION
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 Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
0% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 19 states
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Prison Fellowship Ministries · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PRISON FELLOWSHIP MINISTRIES FOUNDATION: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds PRISON FELLOWSHIP MINISTRIES FOUNDATION?
- PRISON FELLOWSHIP MINISTRIES FOUNDATION (Virginia) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $373,120 to it, the largest being Barnabas Foundation ($270,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 95% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does PRISON FELLOWSHIP MINISTRIES FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $373,120 in grants to PRISON FELLOWSHIP MINISTRIES FOUNDATION, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PRISON FELLOWSHIP MINISTRIES FOUNDATION?
- Barnabas Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $270,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PRISON FELLOWSHIP MINISTRIES FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing