Colorado · Nonprofit
PROJECT 1 27
PROJECT 1 27 (Colorado) receives grants from 30 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,323,072 to it, the largest being COLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION ($405,341). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 65% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $900k
- Funders on record
- 30
- Grants received
- $1.3M
- Net assets
- $141k
What Project 1 27 does
Mission
The mission of Project 1.27 is to engage, inspire, recruit and resource churches and families to serve children in our community through faith-based family preservation, kinship care, foster care and adoption.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Project 1.27 recruits and trains foster parents from Colorado churches and communities to serve children who have experienced abuse and neglect and are involved in the child welfare system. The organization provides 30 hours of state-certified, faith-based training for eight annual cohorts. In fiscal year 2024/2025 forty individuals attended the required trainings to become foster and adoptive parents, and an additional 166 individuals received training to serve as support team members for foster families. Project 1.27 provides ongoing support as families become licensed and begin the fostering process. The organization conducted advanced continuing education trainings and provided hard goods and resources to 544 Colorado kinship, foster, and adoptive families and 1,673 children involved in the child welfare system. In addition to service areas throughout the Front Range and Western Slope, Project 1.27 expanded services to Delta County in fiscal year 2024/2025.
$497,085 spent$216,639 earned by the program69% of program spendingProject 1.27 recruits volunteer Neighbors to provide a monthly meal and encouragement to kinship and foster families. The program increases the retention of kinship and foster homes, thereby decreasing placement disruptions for children in foster care. This support provides children in care with opportunities to develop healthy, healing relationships with foster providers and helps avoid the additional trauma associated with placement disruption. In fiscal year 2024/2025 the Neighbor Program served 70 foster families caring for 111 children.
$135,591 spent$83,431 earned by the program19% of program spendingDuring fiscal year 24/25, Project 1.27 expanded its program reach to include foster youth ages 18-24 who are aging out of the foster care system through the development of the New Ground program. During this fiscal year, the organization focused on program design, infrastructure development, and partnership building to lay the foundation for direct services to begin in FY 25/26. Key activities include defining program structure and outcomes, developing policies and procedures, establishing referral pathways, recruiting and training volunteer mentors, and building systems to ensure program safety, accountability, and sustainability. New Ground is designed to provide relational support and stability for young adults transitioning out of foster care, helping them build connections, access resources, and move toward independence and long-term well-being.
$91,317 spent$22,042 earned by the program13% 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: $723,993.
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 2020 to 2021, from $113k to $214k (+90%).
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: 2020 14% · 2025 22%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
84% of PROJECT 1 27’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (100% 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.
Chief executive
Jenny Bender
President and CEO
Board chair
Leif Houkom
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $93k → $183k.
10 of 30 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 65% 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 PROJECT 1 27’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
PROJECT 1 27 has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 31% 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
84% 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 PROJECT 1 27.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 72% · 2018 70% · 2019 39% · 2020 45% · 2021 35% · 2022 23% · 2023 25% — 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
43% of PROJECT 1 27's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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
65% of PROJECT 1 27'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 $458k that is directly attributable, 53% of it comes from funders outside Colorado, across 5 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $865k 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
PROJECT 1 27 has grown faster than half of the 7,334 religion nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,334 religion nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like PROJECT 1 27
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 Colorado
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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 PROJECT 1 27: 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 PROJECT 1 27?
- PROJECT 1 27 (Colorado) receives grants from 30 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,323,072 to it, the largest being COLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION ($405,341). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 65% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does PROJECT 1 27 have?
- IRS filings report 30 organizations giving $1,323,072 in grants to PROJECT 1 27, 19 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PROJECT 1 27?
- COLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $405,341 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PROJECT 1 27 find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Colorado. 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 30 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