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Project Return Inc

People who have just been released from prison are typically stigmatized, overlooked, and pigeonholed by society. When they walk into project return, they discover that here they are valued, heard, and encouraged. While reduction of incarceration and other criminal justice reform continues to elude the u.s., project return serves as part…

$221k
Granted FY2017
1
Itemized grants FY2017
1
Organizations funded FY2017
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Itemized, FY2017
$35k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2017
$34,546
Largest grant, FY2017
$34,546
States reached, FY2017
1
Total assets, FY2017
$9.2M

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2017, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Nashville Adult Literacy Council Inc$34,54614%

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About Project Return Inc

How much does Project Return Inc give?
Project Return Inc reported 1 itemized grants totaling $34,546, out of $220,798 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2017 IRS filing.
What does Project Return Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2017, its largest causes are Crime & Legal (100%).
Who are Project Return Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2017: Nashville Adult Literacy Council Inc ($35k).
Where is Project Return Inc based?
Project Return Inc is based in TN.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 1 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2017, released 2017. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $362k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2017, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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