Massachusetts · Nonprofit
PROJECT COMEBACK
PROJECT COMEBACK (Massachusetts) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $479,958 to it, the largest being SIMON WILLARD FOUNDATION ($250,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $362k
- Funders on record
- 13
- Grants received
- $480k
- Net assets
- $314k
What Project Comeback does
Mission
Project Comeback provides lifelong care to the most unwanted, unadoptable, and overlooked horses. Through veteran partnerships, we create a space where both horse and human can heal together first, fostering trust, respect, and interactions rooted in choice. Our mission is not to re-educate and then re-home, but to restore dignity, offer refuge, and build meaningful connections based on mutual consent and understanding.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Project Comeback provides lifelong care to the most unwanted, unadoptable, and overlooked horses. Through veteran partnerships, we create a space where both horse and human can heal together first, fostering trust, respect, and interactions rooted in choice. Our mission is not to re-educate and then re-home, but to restore dignity, offer refuge, and build meaningful connections based on mutual consent and understanding.
$265,085 spent$52,164 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $265,085.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 $221k to $314k (+42%).
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.
86% of PROJECT COMEBACK’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (86% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 4 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
Lindsay Tucker
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2024 and FY2025 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $3k → $213k.
6 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 14% 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 COMEBACK’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 COMEBACK leans on a few funders — its largest provides 52% of grant income and the top three 79%; 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: 2020 99% · 2021 65% · 2022 34% · 2023 59% — 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
20% of PROJECT COMEBACK's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 31% 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
60% of PROJECT COMEBACK's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $66k 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 COMEBACK runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,693 animals nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,693 animals nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like PROJECT COMEBACK
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 Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
98% 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 PROJECT COMEBACK: 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 COMEBACK?
- PROJECT COMEBACK (Massachusetts) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $479,958 to it, the largest being SIMON WILLARD FOUNDATION ($250,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PROJECT COMEBACK have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $479,958 in grants to PROJECT COMEBACK, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PROJECT COMEBACK?
- SIMON WILLARD FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $250,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PROJECT COMEBACK find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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 2022–2025), and the filings of 13 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