Texas · Nonprofit
CARDBoard Project
CARDBoard Project (Texas) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,010,931 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS INC ($1,561,959). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $620k
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $2.0M
- Net assets
- $536k
What CARDBoard Project does
Mission
CARDBoard Project bridges the digital divide by providing digitally disconnected individuals devices, broadband access, and digitals skills training. We couple this with referral partners to address their other - Continued on Schedule O.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Virtual Resource Center Services: We pivoted our outreach and intake model after COVID to be mobile, lower cost, and to use fewer on-site staff. We use a small team on-site that connects our clients to our case managers via a video platform. Our case managers include Social Worker Interns who hail from universities across the country.This is usually our first contact with our clients where we assess their needs and identify their barriers to success. We then connect them to our vetted 10-Step Partners who provide support across several needs e.g. housing, food, clothing, transportation. Meanwhile, we provide them with a digital identity and a virtual phone number, if needed. If they are ready, we will register them for our Digital Skills Training program. Continued on Schedule O.
$262,576 spent62% of program spendingDigital Skills Training: Our Program is designed for clients who have zero or close to zero computing skills. We offer the program in English and Spanish versions, depending on the audience. Over the course of 12 hours (over 6 weeks) we introduce them to the basics of a computer, keyboarding and mousing, navigating the system and the internet through a browser, basic office suite usage (docs, spreadsheets, email, calendar, cloud drive). Then we help them to use their new skills to job search on Indeed and to create and tailor their resume. We also partner with banks to provide financial readiness training. At graduation, we bring employer partners to discuss job opportunities.Continued on Schedule O.
$92,300 spent$47,350 earned by the program22% of program spendingDigital Device Program: Many participants in the Specialty Court of Dallas are required to take a mandated online program. The Specialty Court will identify and refer promising candidates to our program where they need access. We will loan for the duration of their Divergent program a laptop, a hotspot with a data plan, and a backpack with necessary accessories, to allow them to complete it.In 2023, 101 clients were provided laptops and hotspots.
$40,078 spent$8,400 earned by the program9% of program spendingOTHER PROGRAM SERVICES 4: Mobile Empowerment Popups: We offer this to other non-profit organizations for their events in Digital Deserts where online connection is needed. We provide and setup up to 30 laptops with WIFI broadband access for events of 2 to 4 hours. This allows the event organizers and their participants to connect to the internet to provide their services both directly via the laptops and by smartphones.
$29,709 spent7% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $424,663.
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 2022 to 2023, from $109k to $1.1M (+885%).
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 50%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of CARDBoard Project’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (54% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $36k → $203k.
5 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 9% 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 CARDBoard Project’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 11 of 12 funders by total. 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
CARDBoard Project leans on a few funders — its largest provides 78% of grant income and the top three 90%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
88% 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 CARDBoard Project.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 79% · 2020 61% · 2021 43% · 2022 59% · 2023 59% — 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
75% of CARDBoard Project's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% 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
90% of CARDBoard Project's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $173k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
CARDBoard Project has grown faster than three-quarters of the 2,276 employment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,276 employment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like CARDBoard 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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
73% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CARDBoard 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 CARDBoard Project?
- CARDBoard Project (Texas) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,010,931 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS INC ($1,561,959). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CARDBoard Project have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $2,010,931 in grants to CARDBoard Project, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CARDBoard Project?
- UNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,561,959 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CARDBoard Project 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 FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 12 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