Wisconsin · Nonprofit
PROJECT ANGEL HUGS
PROJECT ANGEL HUGS (Wisconsin) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $188,588 to it, the largest being MERKEL FOUNDATION INC ($155,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $275k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $189k
- Net assets
- $256k
What Project Angel Hugs does
Mission
Project Angel Hugs is an organization dedicated to nurturing a passion for service in the hearts of our youth while ministering to the emotional needs of children touched by cancer and their families.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The organization ministers to the emotional needs of children touched by cancer and their families. Project Angel Hugs serves children in their program via hug & kiss packages. An angel hug package is a box full of goodies sent out 4-6 times each year, usually around a holiday or birthday. The holiday hug packages also include items for each sibling in a family under the age of 15. An angel kiss is a small craft item handmade by youth & adults in the plymouth area or from around the country. Angel kisses are sent 12 times a year.
$178,058 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $178,058.
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 2021 to 2022, from $99k to $202k (+104%).
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.
99% of PROJECT ANGEL HUGS’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $10k → $27k.
1 of 8 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 PROJECT ANGEL HUGS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 7 of 8 funders by total. 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 ANGEL HUGS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 82% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 99% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 78% · 2022 76% · 2023 74% — 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
99% of PROJECT ANGEL HUGS's grant income comes from Wisconsin funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $602 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
PROJECT ANGEL HUGS runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 21,616 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,616 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like PROJECT ANGEL HUGS
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
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
86%
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 ANGEL HUGS: 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 ANGEL HUGS?
- PROJECT ANGEL HUGS (Wisconsin) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $188,588 to it, the largest being MERKEL FOUNDATION INC ($155,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PROJECT ANGEL HUGS have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $188,588 in grants to PROJECT ANGEL HUGS, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PROJECT ANGEL HUGS?
- MERKEL FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $155,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PROJECT ANGEL HUGS 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 8 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