California · Nonprofit
HANNAH PROJECT PARTNERSHIP FOR ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT
HANNAH PROJECT PARTNERSHIP FOR ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT (California) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,782,776 to it, the largest being LEONARD & BERYL BUCK FOUNDATION ($415,500). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 73% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $481k
- Funders on record
- 14
- Grants received
- $1.8M
- Net assets
- $236k
What Hannah Project Partnership for Academic Achievement does
Mission
The mission of the Hannah Project is to equip students and families with the knowledge, skills, and strategies to boost academic proficiency, promote college and career attainment, honor cultural heritage, and become active and engaged citizens. We couple individual success strategies with advocacy and community engagement on behalf of the children and families we serve.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The Hannah Project works year-round to advance educational equity and social justice, strengthen reading and family literacy, and help parents advocate for meaningful change in their schools. Freedom Schools are more than summer programs-they are part of a movement. Rooted in literacy, civic engagement, and social action, Freedom Schools help prevent summer learning loss while developing young people's confidence, leadership, and voice. In 2025, the Hannah Freedom School served 110 scholars in grades K-8. Students in grades 3-8 attended the program on the Tamalpais High School campus, while kindergarten through second-grade scholars were hosted at the Marin City Community Services District facilities through a community partnership. At the heart of Freedom School is the Integrated Reading Curriculum (IRC), which uses high-quality, culturally relevant books that reflect scholars' identities, histories, families, and communities. Through reading, discussion, writing, creative activities, and critical thinking, scholars strengthen their literacy skills, develop confidence and leadership, and deepen their understanding of the world around them. Most importantly, the curriculum…
$43,552 spent$75,954 earned by the program19% of program spendingEDUCATIONAL AND ACADEMIC SERVICES FreedomSchool2/Scholar2Scholar (S2S) In 2022, concerned with the continued impact of the COVID pandemic, particularly among students entering adolescence during this period of isolation, Hannah piloted a new program we called FreedomSchool2/Scholar2Scholar focused on middle and high school students. Partnering with the Sausalito Marin City School District, Hannah provided full-time staff support on site at Dr. MLK Academy. Staff provided Tier 2 support to designated middle school students, oversight of student government, the student store, leadership development, and cultural celebrations including Hispanic Heritage Week, Black History Month, Dias de La Raza, Jazz History Month, and MLK and Caesar Chavez Day. In high school, Hannah provided part-time staffing in the Tamalpais High School District including collaboration with Tamalpais High's Success Network to monitor entering freshmen attendance, homework completion, grades and engagement in student activities. Program participants were given laptops to facilitate homework and ensure that each household could have reliable interface with online school communication. The…
$72,158 spent$71,998 earned by the program32% of program spendingADVOCACY CULTURE AND COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT SAVE OUR CITY (SOC), a community coalition organized by the Hannah Project in fall 2023, formed in response to the Marin County Board of Supervisors' approval of a controversial 73-unit apartment complex at 825 Drake Avenue without sufficient community input. SOC opposed the project because of concerns about infrastructure neglect, gentrification, overdevelopment, safety, traffic, environmental impacts, and social equity. The coalition argued that applying SB 35's fast-track housing provisions to Marin City-one of the county's most racially and economically diverse communities-misused the law by concentrating more density in an area that already carries a disproportionate share of Marin County's affordable housing, while wealthier communities faced no comparable development burden. The SAVE OUR CITY coalition sought to stop the 825 Drake Avenue project through grassroots organizing, public protest, and legal action. Specifically, SOC: 1. Targeted project funding: In May 2023, Save Our City filed a lawsuit challenging the Marin County Board of Supervisors' approval of $40 million in tax-exempt municipal bonds for the project. Rather than…
$91,644 spent$91,475 earned by the program41% of program spendingDream Keeper Scholarship The Dream Keeper Scholarship program was organized to provide academic counseling and financial support to low-income constituents.
$17,955 spent$18,040 earned by the program8% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $225,309.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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 $572k to $325k (−43%).
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: 2017 9% · 2019 14% · 2020 24% · 2021 17% · 2022 31% · 2023 7% · 2024 8% · 2025 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of HANNAH PROJECT PARTNERSHIP FOR ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT’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. 4 of the last 9 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.
Board chair
Florence Williams
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $35k → $310k.
8 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 73% 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 HANNAH PROJECT PARTNERSHIP FOR ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT’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
HANNAH PROJECT PARTNERSHIP FOR ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% 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
99% 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 HANNAH PROJECT PARTNERSHIP FOR ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 43% · 2018 66% · 2019 37% · 2020 45% · 2021 46% · 2022 45% · 2023 32% — 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
40% of HANNAH PROJECT PARTNERSHIP FOR ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% 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
73% of HANNAH PROJECT PARTNERSHIP FOR ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT'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 $476k that is directly attributable, 89% of it comes from funders outside California, across 3 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
HANNAH PROJECT PARTNERSHIP FOR ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 17,450 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,450 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like HANNAH PROJECT PARTNERSHIP FOR ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT
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In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
52% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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
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Questions and answers
- Who funds HANNAH PROJECT PARTNERSHIP FOR ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT?
- HANNAH PROJECT PARTNERSHIP FOR ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT (California) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,782,776 to it, the largest being LEONARD & BERYL BUCK FOUNDATION ($415,500). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 73% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does HANNAH PROJECT PARTNERSHIP FOR ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT have?
- IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $1,782,776 in grants to HANNAH PROJECT PARTNERSHIP FOR ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HANNAH PROJECT PARTNERSHIP FOR ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT?
- LEONARD & BERYL BUCK FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $415,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HANNAH PROJECT PARTNERSHIP FOR ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 14 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