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PROJECT HIRED INC

PROJECT HIRED INC (California) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $324,593 to it, the largest being ASSOCIATION OF SILICON VALLEY BROKERS ($162,496). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$125
Funders on record
9
Grants received
$325k
Net assets
$0
7/9 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 37%
01What it does

What Project Hired Inc does

Mission

To assist individuals with disabilities to gain and sustain employment.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. The board of directors unanimously voted to dissolve the organzation in august 2024. All remaining assets have been distributed to san jose state university with the purpose to fund scholarships for individuals with disabilities.

    $62,737 spentof which $50,000 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $62,737.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($2.3M) Expenses 100 ($2.3M) Net assets 100 ($590k)2018 Revenue 100 ($2.3M) Expenses 102 ($2.3M) Net assets 95 ($559k)2019 Revenue 104 ($2.4M) Expenses 102 ($2.3M) Net assets 108 ($636k)2020 Revenue 51 ($1.2M) Expenses 66 ($1.5M) Net assets 52 ($306k)2021 Revenue 12 ($283k) Expenses 9 ($205k) Net assets 65 ($384k)2022 Revenue 5 ($127k) Expenses 13 ($289k) Net assets 37 ($221k)2023 Revenue 3 ($73k) Expenses 8 ($189k) Net assets 18 ($106k)2024 Revenue 0 ($3k) Expenses 2 ($46k) Net assets 11 ($63k)2025 Revenue 0 ($125) Expenses 3 ($63k) Net assets 0 ($0)
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Revenue (0)Expenses (3)Net assets (0)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $795k to $398k (−50%).

$811k
$724k
$795k
$398k
$401k
$234k
$108k
$63k
$0
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 24%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$26k
’17
−$31k
’18
$77k
’19
−$330k
’20
$78k
’21
−$163k
’22
−$116k
’23
−$43k
’24
−$63k
’25
17
months of
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

Sharon A Winston

Executive director

Board chair

Jeff Jacobs

Board chair

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.

20172018201920202021
Listed96966
Joined·+1+3+0+0
No longer listed·4030
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 4 funders to 2 funders, grant income fell $54k → $6k.

5 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 35% 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 HIRED 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 HIRED INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% of grant income and the top three 73%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

85% 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 HIRED INC.

50%
largest funder
73%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 32% · 2018 47% · 2019 47% · 2020 41% · 2021 100% · 2022 74% · 2023 97% — growing more concentrated.

“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

50% of PROJECT HIRED INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 78% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

91% of PROJECT HIRED INC's grant income comes from California funders.

CA
MO
NC

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $112k 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.

04Its place in the field

Government funding PROJECT HIRED INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $6.6M on record.

Federal$6.6M
grants $0contracts $6.6M
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Top agencies
  • Department of Veterans Affairs$6.6M

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 HIRED 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 California

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Public support

45%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PROJECT HIRED 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 HIRED INC?
PROJECT HIRED INC (California) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $324,593 to it, the largest being ASSOCIATION OF SILICON VALLEY BROKERS ($162,496). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does PROJECT HIRED INC have?
IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $324,593 in grants to PROJECT HIRED INC, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of PROJECT HIRED INC?
ASSOCIATION OF SILICON VALLEY BROKERS is the largest funder on record, with $162,496 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like PROJECT HIRED INC 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 9 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