Wisconsin · Nonprofit
PROJECT 1649 INC
PROJECT 1649 INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $300,523 to it, the largest being WILLIAM J CRONIN FOUNDATION ($57,000). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $800k
- Funders on record
- 25
- Grants received
- $301k
- Net assets
- $481k
What Project 1649 Inc does
Mission
Project 1649 operates two transitional living homes and provides outreach and assistance to unaccompanied homeless youth in Rock County WI. Supportive services outlined in Schedule I are also provided. Project 1649 staff work with local schools and service agencies to ensure youth's basic needs are met, and that they have access to other services/support they need to become independent adults.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Project 1649 provides basic needs assistance for more than 300 unaccompanied homeless youth in Rock County WI each year and provides direct assistance and case management to approximately 90 youth. The organization also operates two supervised transitional living homes (one for females and one for males) which serve 30-40 youth annually. Project 1649 provides youth (transitional living home residents, community case management participants, and in-school workshop participants) with opportunities to learn and develop important independent living/life skills. In 2024, the transitional living homes served 34 youth. 94% of residents graduated or were attending school regularly, the program achieved a 100% positive exit rate, 85% obtained/increased employment and 95% of youth increased their self-sufficiency score in two or more of five key areas.
$619,886 spentof which $127,121 as grants$737,420 earned by the program100% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $619,886.
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 2023 to 2024, from $393k to $546k (+39%).
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 42% · 2021 36% · 2022 31% · 2023 23% · 2024 29%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
92% of PROJECT 1649 INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (83% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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.
Board chair
Bobbie Kedrowski
Chairperson
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $25k → $84k.
5 of 25 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 27% 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 1649 INC’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 1649 INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 19% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
61% 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 1649 INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 96% · 2020 40% · 2021 25% · 2022 24% · 2023 50% — 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 PROJECT 1649 INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 44% 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 PROJECT 1649 INC's grant income comes from Wisconsin funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $80k 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 1649 INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 5,688 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,688 youth development nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Government funding PROJECT 1649 INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.5M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$1.5M
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like PROJECT 1649 INC
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
93% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
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 PROJECT 1649 INC: 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 1649 INC?
- PROJECT 1649 INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $300,523 to it, the largest being WILLIAM J CRONIN FOUNDATION ($57,000). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PROJECT 1649 INC have?
- IRS filings report 25 organizations giving $300,523 in grants to PROJECT 1649 INC, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PROJECT 1649 INC?
- WILLIAM J CRONIN FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $57,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PROJECT 1649 INC 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 FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 25 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