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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
16/33 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 57%
01What it does

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

  1. 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 program
    84% of program spending
  2. Summer 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 spent
    16% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $491,952.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($178k) Expenses 100 ($128k) Net assets 100 ($125k)2019 Revenue 544 ($969k) Expenses 547 ($701k) Net assets 314 ($393k)2020 Revenue 405 ($723k) Expenses 643 ($825k) Net assets 213 ($266k)2021 Revenue 904 ($1.6M) Expenses 855 ($1.1M) Net assets 719 ($900k)2022 Revenue 444 ($791k) Expenses 1219 ($1.6M) Net assets 147 ($184k)2023 Revenue 714 ($1.3M) Expenses 1010 ($1.3M) Net assets 130 ($163k)
201820192020202120222023
Revenue (714)Expenses (1010)Net assets (130)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 2021 to 2022, from $918k to $226k (−75%).

$125k
$394k
$351k
$918k
$226k
$215k
201820192020202120222023
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.

2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

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).

This organization
Typical peer · 2,035 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

$50k
’18
$268k
’19
−$102k
’20
$516k
’21
−$771k
’22
−$21k
’23
0.5
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

Damion Cooper

Founder and executive director

Board chair

Martin Bartness

Chairman

As listed on its FY2023 Form 990.

201820192020202120222023
Listed92021211512
Joined·+11+7+0+5+3
No longer listed·060116
03Who funds it

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.

19%
largest funder
39%
top three
~13
effective funders

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.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y

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.

NY
MD
DC

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

’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Maryland out of state home

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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

PROJECT PNEUMA INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 1,813 youth development nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−2% · below the median
Months of reserve0.5mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)48% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,813 youth development nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2023

Organizations like PROJECT PNEUMA INC

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In Maryland

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

38% of spending goes to programs.

Program 38%Management 62%Fundraising 0%

Governance

10
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

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

MD

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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