Oregon · Nonprofit
SOUND INTERPRETATION PROJECT
SOUND INTERPRETATION PROJECT (Oregon) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $310,862 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($209,800). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $163k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $311k
- Net assets
- $625k
What Sound Interpretation Project does
Mission
Religious education: education in the teaching, message, and worldview of the Bible as discerned through sound methods of interpretation, and promotion of the knowledge and skills necessary to interpret the Bible soundly.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
RESEARCH PROJECTS: Contracted one bible scholar to (i) engage in individual study and research; (ii) mentor others in the skills of biblical interpretation; (iii) teach to others the content of the biblical literature; (iv) produce audio and/or video files of such teaching; (v) produce podcasts of such teaching; and/or (vi) write papers related to the results of their study and research.
$61,113 spent$51,185 earned by the program80% of program spendingEducation Grants: Grants to defray costs of education that Sound Interpretation deemed appropriate to equipping individuals to becoming future interpreters of the Bible.
$0 spent0% of program spendingCharitable Assistance Grants: Grants of charitable financial assistance to meet needs that are brought to the attention of Sound Interpretation Project by members of its learning community.
$15,000 spentof which $15,000 as grants$43,500 earned by the program20% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $76,113.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2020 to 2021, from $303k to $396k (+31%).
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.
95% of SOUND INTERPRETATION PROJECT’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 5 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income fell $39k → $15k.
4 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 SOUND INTERPRETATION PROJECT’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
SOUND INTERPRETATION PROJECT leans on a few funders — its largest provides 67% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 SOUND INTERPRETATION PROJECT.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 58% · 2018 72% · 2019 48% · 2020 60% · 2021 100% · 2022 71% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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.
Where its funders are
100% of SOUND INTERPRETATION PROJECT'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $311k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
SOUND INTERPRETATION PROJECT runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters 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 SOUND INTERPRETATION PROJECT
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 Oregon
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
94% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
54%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SOUND INTERPRETATION PROJECT: 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 SOUND INTERPRETATION PROJECT?
- SOUND INTERPRETATION PROJECT (Oregon) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $310,862 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($209,800). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does SOUND INTERPRETATION PROJECT have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $310,862 in grants to SOUND INTERPRETATION PROJECT, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SOUND INTERPRETATION PROJECT?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $209,800 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SOUND INTERPRETATION PROJECT find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Oregon. 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 2020–2024), and the filings of 4 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