Maryland · Nonprofit
PROJECT PNEUMA INC
PROJECT PNEUMA INC (Maryland) receives grants from 33 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,850,902 to it, the largest being BALTIMORE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($346,159). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2023
- $1.3M
- Funders on record
- 33
- Grants received
- $1.9M
- Net assets
- $163k
What Project Pneuma Inc does
Mission
To breathe new life holistically into the young men we serve by challenging them intellectually, strengthening them physically, nuturing them emotionally and uplifting them spiritually.
As stated on its FY2023 Form 990.
Programs
School-year program: traditional programming for boys in grades 4-8 that focused on helping participants with their social-emotional growth and maturity via classroom activities, support with homework, martial arts, physical fitness, art therapy, sound therapy, conflict resolution, and public speaking. With the exception of one school, this programming took place after school on either monday and wednesdays or tuesday and thursdays. Each session lasts 3 hours.
$411,593 spent$369,924 earned by the program84% of program spendingSummer program: summer credit recovery program implemented by baltimore city public schools. We provided sel services that largely mirrored our traditional afterschool programming for 6 weeks (monday-thursday) at mt royal elementary-middle school. Both girls and boys in grades 6-8 participated in this summer program.
$80,359 spent16% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $491,952.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2021 to 2022, from $918k to $226k (−75%).
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: 2018 84% · 2023 59%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
71% of PROJECT PNEUMA INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
Damion Cooper
Founder and executive director
Board chair
Martin Bartness
Chairman
As listed on its FY2023 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 15 funders, grant income rose $38k → $535k.
10 of 33 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 41% 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 PROJECT PNEUMA INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 33 funders by total. 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
PROJECT PNEUMA INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 19% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
65% 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 PROJECT PNEUMA INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 79% · 2019 61% · 2020 34% · 2021 22% · 2022 33% · 2023 33% — 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
58% of PROJECT PNEUMA INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 48% 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
97% of PROJECT PNEUMA INC's grant income comes from Maryland funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $754k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
PROJECT PNEUMA INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 1,813 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,813 youth development nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2023
Organizations like PROJECT PNEUMA 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 Maryland
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
38% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
84%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PROJECT PNEUMA INC: 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 PROJECT PNEUMA INC?
- PROJECT PNEUMA INC (Maryland) receives grants from 33 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,850,902 to it, the largest being BALTIMORE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($346,159). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PROJECT PNEUMA INC have?
- IRS filings report 33 organizations giving $1,850,902 in grants to PROJECT PNEUMA INC, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PROJECT PNEUMA INC?
- BALTIMORE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $346,159 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PROJECT PNEUMA INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maryland. 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 FY2023 (financials across 2018–2023), and the filings of 33 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