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Psalm 103 Family Foundation

Columbia, MO · EIN 84-3389251. Reported 134 grants totalling $279,064 to 40 recipients across tax years 2021-2025. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$750median grant
$279,064granted, 2021-2025
40recipients, as named on its returns
85%of grantees funded again the next year
$7,640assets, latest filing

Does this foundation accept applications?

Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. Psalm 103 Family Foundation did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.

This is the foundation's own statement to the IRS, not our judgement, and it says nothing about whether they have a form, a deadline, or an appetite for new grantees. Treat it as the reason this foundation is worth your research time, not as an invitation. Many small foundations of this kind have no website and no application process -- a letter of inquiry is the normal first step.

How big are its grants?

The median grant is $750. Half of everything it gave fell between $500 and $1,200; the smallest was $100 and the largest $24,300. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

Under $1,000
70 grants
$1,000 - $5,000
54 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
3 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
7 grants

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by name and state as they were written on the returns, so an organization entered under two different names appears twice. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which that name received money.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
The Crossing ChurchColumbia, MO$117,650552025
Campus Crusade for Christ (cru)Orlando, FL$47,978552025
Compassion InternationalColorado Springs, CO$18,552552025
Give TransformKansas City, MO$7,714442025
Food Bank for Central and Northeast MissouriColumbia, MO$6,260552025
Big Horn MinistriesOhio City, CO$6,250552025
Athens ChruchKansas City, MO$6,200332023
K-Life of ColumbiaColumbia, MO$5,526552025
Samaritans PurseBoone, NC$5,236552025
Coyote Hill Christian Children's HomeHarrisburg, MO$5,200552025
Young LifeColumbia, MO$5,000552025
Mission 127Bonney Lake, WA$4,100332023
My Life ClinicColumbia, MO$4,000442025
Family Hope InternationalBonney Lake, WA$3,725222025
Love IncColumbia, MO$3,500442024
Mobility WorldwideColumbia, MO$3,450552025
NavigatorsColorado Springs, CO$2,950552025
World Gospel OutreachHattiesburg, MS$2,950552025
American Red CrossWashington, DC$2,500552025
Billy GrahamCharlotte, NC$2,260552025
Partners for CareAlpharetta, GA$2,250552025
Converge (christian Slone)Orlando, FL$2,000222025
Jesus Film ProjectOrlando, FL$1,603332025
The Sending ProjectOlathe, KS$1,400112021
Como GivesMexico, MO$1,300112022
Kid's Across AmericaBranson, MO$1,204552025
Creating RefugeColumbia, MO$1,000112025
Heart of Missouri United WayColumbia, MO$1,000442024
Life Network of Central MissouriColumbia, MO$1,000112021
Meals on Wheels of ColumbiaColumbia, MO$750222025
Voluntary Action CenterColumbia, MO$675442025
Christian FellowshipColumbia, MO$500112022
Fellowship of Christian AthletesKansas City, MO$500112024
Love ColumbiaColumbia, MO$500112025
Tigers on the ProwlColumbia, MO$500112023
Vitae FoundationJefferson City, MO$500112022
Smile TrainNew York, NY$475442024
City of RefugeColumbia, MO$456222025
Disabled American VeteransJefferson City, MO$350332023
Kanakuk MinistriesBranson, MO$100112021

30 of 40 (75%) received money in more than one year over the 5 years we hold.

Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 85%, across 4 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is unusually consistent. This measures how often it paid the same organizations again. It says nothing about whether it would consider a new one.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 76 grants where we could match the recipient to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's. The match, made from the name and address on the return, is ours.

Religion
25 grants
International Affairs
20 grants
Human Services
13 grants
Food & Nutrition
7 grants
Health Care
5 grants
Philanthropy & Grantmaking
5 grants
Youth Development
1 grant

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202126$56,033$950
202227$55,580$600
202328$54,567$850
202427$58,539$700
202526$54,345$725

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.

Where its money goes

63% of its giving went to organizations in Missouri. If your organization is based elsewhere, look in the recipient list for grants to your area before writing.

Missouri
$175K
Florida
$52K
Colorado
$28K
Washington
$8K
North Carolina
$7K
Mississippi
$3K
District of Columbia
$2K
Georgia
$2K

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Funders that support the same organizations

These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund17 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc12 shared recipientsVanguard Charitable Endowment Program10 shared recipientsNatl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc9 shared recipientsVeterans United Foundation9 shared recipientsOrscheln Industries Foundation Inc9 shared recipients

How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $750. A request many times that size asks for something it has rarely or never given.
  2. Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in Missouri.
  3. Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
  4. Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.

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Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Psalm 103 Family Foundation's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 5 returns (tax years 2021-2025). Grant figures are from its returns. Matching recipients to registered organizations, their IRS classifications, the retention rate and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations, described in how we build this.

Address of record on the latest return: 1109 Lakeside Dr, Columbia, MO, 65203. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.

EIN 84-3389251 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

This is history, not an open call. Foundation returns are published about a year after the tax year ends. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this foundation has actually funded.

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