Texas · Nonprofit
25 Project Inc
25 Project Inc (Texas) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,100,061 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($261,055). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 69% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.8M
- Funders on record
- 24
- Grants received
- $1.1M
- Net assets
- $1.7M
What 25 Project Inc does
Mission
The needy. The overlooked. The marginalized. Jesus identified with the suffering. He entered into their pain to bring love, hope, and wholeness. Matthew 25:31-46 reminds believers to join Jesus in His ministry by stepping into the lives of the helpless with compassion and humility. In this, Christs Kingdom is made known to the world - where the outsider is welcomed in, the sick is made whole, and where the orphan finds a home.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Child Sponsorship Ministry: Our sponsorship ministry is designed to personally engage sponsors with children and youth whom we minister to on a continual basis. We currently have sponsorship available in Sierra Leone, the Dominican Republic, South Asia, and Ethiopia. Through sponsorship, the children in our care receive regular nutritious meals, the opportunity for education and tutoring, basic medical care, and most importantly each child continually hears the Gospel and has the opportunity to know Christ through a personal relationship. Our hope is that through tangible needs being addressed and met, the Gospel is put on display for children, their families, and the communities we serve.
$842,545 spentof which $138,940 as grants69% of program spendingMission Trips: We lead teams throughout the year to serve on mission in each of our ministry locations. We currently send short-term teams to the Dominican Republic, South Asia, Ethiopia, and Sierra Leone. Our teams serve a strategic and long-term purpose that focuses on the ongoing work already established in each ministry location. Our teams assist in the discipleship process with the children we serve, as well as provide opportunities for children who may not have a relationship with Christ to be introduced to Him.
$370,180 spent30% of program spendingMelissa Community Outreach: Through the Melissa Community Outreach (MCO), we seek to meet the communities physical needs through the food pantry ministry. Through family events, education classes, and a youth program, we also hope to help the community thrive as we share the hope found through a relationship with Jesus.
$6,764 spent1% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,219,489.
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 $846k to $1.2M (+38%).
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: 2020 4% · 2021 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of 25 Project Inc’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (97% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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
Kent Jones Davis
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $45k → $195k.
12 of 24 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 69% 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 25 Project Inc’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
25 Project Inc has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 24% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
69% 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 25 Project Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 61% · 2018 75% · 2019 30% · 2020 63% · 2021 49% · 2022 32% · 2023 38% — 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
36% of 25 Project Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% 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
69% of 25 Project Inc'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. Of the $336k that is directly attributable, 75% of it comes from funders outside Texas, across 7 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $764k arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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
25 Project Inc runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 718 international nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 718 international nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like 25 Project 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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
75% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds 25 Project Inc?
- 25 Project Inc (Texas) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,100,061 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($261,055). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 69% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does 25 Project Inc have?
- IRS filings report 24 organizations giving $1,100,061 in grants to 25 Project Inc, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of 25 Project Inc?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $261,055 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like 25 Project Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2020–2025), and the filings of 24 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