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AWAKEN PROJECT INC

AWAKEN PROJECT INC (Minnesota) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,080 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($10,580). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 95% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$49k
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$11k
Net assets
$20k
1/2 repeat funders
01What it does

What Awaken Project Inc does

Mission

Sponsor a religious gap year program for young adults.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. A school-year-length program for emerging young adults who desire a Christian gap year experience. The gap year combines multiple volunteer experience sites to provide a quality experience for enrolled participants.

    $0 spentof which $1,313 as grants

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $0.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2024, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2024, 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 = 20242024 Revenue 100 ($59k) Expenses 100 ($52k) Net assets 100 ($14k)2025 Revenue 83 ($49k) Expenses 77 ($40k) Net assets 138 ($20k)
20242025
Revenue (83)Expenses (77)Net assets (138)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 2024 to 2025, from $14k to $20k (+38%).

$14k
$20k
20242025
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.

2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of AWAKEN PROJECT INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 14,623 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.

$7k
’24
$9k
’25

Leadership and staff

Chief executive

Steven Wagner

Executive Director

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'22
'24*
'25*
total
funders
1
1
1

1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 95% 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 AWAKEN 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

AWAKEN PROJECT INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 95% 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

95% 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 AWAKEN PROJECT INC.

95%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

“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

95% of AWAKEN 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 $500 that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Minnesota, across 1 state.

NE

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $11k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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

AWAKEN PROJECT INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 6,869 religion nonprofits its size.

Operating margin19% · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−17% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,869 religion nonprofits under $100k, FY2025

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In Minnesota

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05Profile & governance

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

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MN

Screen this organization

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Questions and answers

Who funds AWAKEN PROJECT INC?
AWAKEN PROJECT INC (Minnesota) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,080 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($10,580). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 95% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does AWAKEN PROJECT INC have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $11,080 in grants to AWAKEN PROJECT INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of AWAKEN PROJECT INC?
DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $10,580 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like AWAKEN PROJECT INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2024–2025), and the filings of 2 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