California · Nonprofit
NORTH COUNTY PROJECT
NORTH COUNTY PROJECT (California) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $178,179 to it, the largest being BRIAN AND CARIS CHAN FAMILY FOUNDATION ($59,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 52% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $392k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $178k
- Net assets
- $260k
What North County Project does
Mission
1. Training and outreach:we share the gospel with individuals - one-on-one or in groups. Our goal is to train more people and thereby expand our outreach throughout north oc and beyond. We train people for personal evangelism, prayer walks, disciple-making communities leaders, and evangelists.2. North County Project apprenticeship: we now have two kinds of apprentices. We locally source apprentices from our church networks in north oc, as well as receive apprentices from other states through partnerships with other ministries. These workers serve in a variety of capacities some as volunteers, some transitioning toward staff roles, and some not paid directly through our ministry. The aim of the apprenticeship is to evaluate and prepare future workers.3. Disciple-making: we do disciple-making through taking emerging leaders through the disciple-making community series. The dmc series is four modules that take approx. One year the last step of this series is what we call the lab.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Disciple-making communities (dmc) (for emerging leaders):one of our main goals is through disciple-making community (dmc). The way we do disciple-making is through taking emerging leaders through the disciple-making community series. The dmc series is four modules that take approximately one year the last step of this series is what we call the lab. We are leading these emerging leaders through either english or spanish versions.
$84,993 spent27% of program spendingNorth County Project apprenticeship: we have been able to locally source apprentices from our church network in north orange county, as well as receive apprentices from other states through partnerships with other ministries. These workers serve in a variety of capacitiessome as volunteers, some transitioning toward staff roles, and some not paid directly through our ministry. The aim of the apprenticeship is to evaluate and prepare future full-time workers for North County Project and beyond.
$60,092 spent19% of program spendingTraining and outreach:our goal this year was to focus on training more people and therebyexpand our outreach throughout north orange county. As far as thetraining we trained 22 people for personal evangelism, 5 new prayerwalkers, started 15 new disciple-making communities, trained 27 newevangelists at cal state university of fullerton or beyound (including ourapprentices). Our outreach was focused on sharing the gospel withindividuals - both in one-on-one conversations and in groups. Our totalwas 286 people we personally shared the gospel with this last year.
$173,470 spent54% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $318,555.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 $222k to $260k (+17%).
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.
100% of NORTH COUNTY PROJECT’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 7 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
Jim Stephenson
Board president
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $24k → $11k.
5 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 52% 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 NORTH COUNTY 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
NORTH COUNTY PROJECT leans on a few funders — its largest provides 33% of grant income and the top three 73%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
52% 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 NORTH COUNTY PROJECT.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 74% · 2021 50% · 2022 79% · 2023 99% — broadly stable.
“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
52% of NORTH COUNTY PROJECT'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 $86k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $92k 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
NORTH COUNTY PROJECT runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 7,850 religion nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,850 religion nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like NORTH COUNTY 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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
90% 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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for NORTH COUNTY 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 NORTH COUNTY PROJECT?
- NORTH COUNTY PROJECT (California) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $178,179 to it, the largest being BRIAN AND CARIS CHAN FAMILY FOUNDATION ($59,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 52% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does NORTH COUNTY PROJECT have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $178,179 in grants to NORTH COUNTY PROJECT, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NORTH COUNTY PROJECT?
- BRIAN AND CARIS CHAN FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $59,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NORTH COUNTY PROJECT 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 2019–2025), 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing