Wisconsin · Nonprofit
FAIR OPPORTUNITY PROJECT
FAIR OPPORTUNITY PROJECT (Wisconsin) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $447,289 to it, the largest being Ascendium Education Solutions Inc ($200,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $356k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $447k
- Net assets
- $39k
What Fair Opportunity Project does
Mission
The mission of the organization is to empower students to access and afford college.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The organization conducted targeted virtual and in person financial aid and FAFSA help for high school students in Wisconsin. Outreach and marketing campaigns targeted approximately 65,000 students across 421 school districts. Schools received regular updates on their students' completion levels. The organization built a custom FAFSA chatbot with FSA knowledge base documentation that could respond in over 100 languages. The organization built a longitudinal FAFSA dashboard for schools to see completion trends over time. The dashboard incorporated publicly available student demographic data for analyzing completion levels according to average household income and geographic locale.
$135,989 spent39% of program spendingDevelop and update a comprehensive college application and financial aid guide that is freely available on the website and shared on social media and digital publications. Mentor program that matches high school students with near-peer mentors.
$15,455 spent4% of program spendingThe Summer Boost Program is an intensive virtual advising and FAFSA completion support program that pairs school counselors with Wisconsin high school juniors and seniors to support their successful completion of key steps in applying to and enrolling in college. Summer Boost provided weekly sessions and incentives for participating students to learn more about 2 and 4 year colleges and related career paths.
$194,387 spent56% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $345,831.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 2023 to 2024, from $17k to $28k (+71%).
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: 2025 39%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of FAIR OPPORTUNITY PROJECT’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 4 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
Carole Trone
Executive Director & Board Secretary
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $1k → $193k.
1 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 FAIR OPPORTUNITY 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
FAIR OPPORTUNITY PROJECT leans on a few funders — its largest provides 45% of grant income and the top three 92%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
92% 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 FAIR OPPORTUNITY PROJECT.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 99% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 84% — 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
92% of FAIR OPPORTUNITY PROJECT's grant income comes from Wisconsin funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $53 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.
Against its field
FAIR OPPORTUNITY PROJECT has grown faster than three-quarters of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like FAIR OPPORTUNITY 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 Wisconsin
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
100% 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 FAIR OPPORTUNITY 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 FAIR OPPORTUNITY PROJECT?
- FAIR OPPORTUNITY PROJECT (Wisconsin) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $447,289 to it, the largest being Ascendium Education Solutions Inc ($200,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FAIR OPPORTUNITY PROJECT have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $447,289 in grants to FAIR OPPORTUNITY PROJECT, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FAIR OPPORTUNITY PROJECT?
- Ascendium Education Solutions Inc is the largest funder on record, with $200,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FAIR OPPORTUNITY PROJECT find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Wisconsin. 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 2022–2025), and the filings of 7 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