Washington · Nonprofit
BENJI PROJECT
BENJI PROJECT (Washington) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $152,600 to it, the largest being MEDINA FOUNDATION ($45,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $253k
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $153k
- Net assets
- $126k
What Benji Project does
Mission
The Benji Project teaches proven mindfulness and self-compassion tools to young people and their families and communities. Through classes, workshops and camps, we build capacity for stress management and emotional resilience. The Benji Project programming serves youth ages 11 to 19 and their families in East Jefferson County, Washington. Jefferson County is a rural area on the Olympic Peninsula. Much of the county is economically disadvantaged and suffers from a lack of mental health resources. We serve all teens regardless of means, more than half of our participants in after-school and camp programming receive full or partial scholarships.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
School-based programming: Our instructors start with the Mindful Self-Compassion for Teens curriculum and modify the timing and number of sessions to accommodate the needs of local school districts and different age groups. Schools where we have offered programs include Port Townsend High School, Chimacum High School, OCEAN K-12 Alternative Learning Environment, Brinnon Middle School, and Blue Heron Middle School. In FY 2023-24, we reached 283 young people with our in-school programming.
$43,983 spent$5,591 earned by the program45% of program spendingSummer camp: Annual week-long summer camps are held for middle and high school age students to introduce mindfulness and self-compassion tools in a nature-based, engaging setting. Through games, arts activities, and outdoor exploration, youth learn lifelong skills for emotional resilience.
$28,217 spentof which $2,425 as grants$6,395 earned by the program29% of program spendingCommunity programs: The Mindful Self-Compassion for Teens curriculum is offered after school hours for 6th-12th graders. In partnership with community organizations, we extend opportunities for small group support around social emotional well-being. We also periodically offer workshops for parents, caregivers, and educators that help adults understand the brain science of adolescent development, how to support teenagers in positive ways, and how to care for themselves amid parenting and teaching challenges. To celebrate Mental Health Awareness month, we collaborated with two local organizations to design and implement the MAAY project: Mental health Arts Action for Youth, a series of hands-on art-making workshops where students designed and created a large puppet representing youth mental health. The puppet then walked in the large Rhody Parade in Port Townsend. Through our community programs, we reached more than 60 youth directly, and dozens more through awareness and interaction with the MAAY project.
$25,980 spentof which $150 as grants$325 earned by the program26% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $98,180.
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.
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 $141k to $133k (−6%).
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: 2024 21% · 2025 34%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of BENJI PROJECT’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (83% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 2 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
Heather McRae-Woolf
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $3k → $15k.
2 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 25% 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 BENJI 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
BENJI PROJECT has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 29% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 100% · 2023 67% — 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.
Where its funders are
61% of BENJI PROJECT's grant income comes from Washington funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $38k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
BENJI PROJECT has grown faster than half of the 8,464 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 8,464 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like BENJI 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 Washington
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
57% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BENJI 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 BENJI PROJECT?
- BENJI PROJECT (Washington) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $152,600 to it, the largest being MEDINA FOUNDATION ($45,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BENJI PROJECT have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $152,600 in grants to BENJI PROJECT, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BENJI PROJECT?
- MEDINA FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $45,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BENJI PROJECT find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. 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 11 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing