Nebraska · Nonprofit
PROJECT HOUSEWORKS
PROJECT HOUSEWORKS (Nebraska) receives grants from 40 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,725,121 to it, the largest being THE SHERWOOD FOUNDATION ($2,042,690). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $6.9M
- Funders on record
- 40
- Grants received
- $9.7M
- Net assets
- $6.1M
What Project Houseworks does
Mission
Enhances lives and strengthens communities through the preservation of quality affordable housing.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Provide free home repairs to low-income homeowners, with a focus on older adults living in unsafe or unhealthy housing conditions. The program addresses critical health and safety needs through repairs such as plumbing and electrical work, roof repair and replacement, and accessibility modificationsincluding grab bar, ramp, and railing installations. Each project begins with a home and safety inspection. Repairs are completed by a combination of staff and licensed subcontractors.
$2,177,732 spent$60,000 earned by the program81% of program spendingHelp low- and moderate-income individuals and families achieve the dream of homeownership by purchasing, rehabilitating, and reselling single-family homes. Qualified buyers receive down payment and mortgage assistance, supported in part by government funding. All homes are sold with long-term affordability restrictions to preserve access for future income-qualified households.
$516,276 spent$1,548,323 earned by the program19% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,694,008.
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 2023 to 2024, from $3.3M to $7.0M (+112%).
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: 2017 6% · 2018 21% · 2019 7% · 2020 33% · 2021 14% · 2022 4% · 2023 5% · 2024 12%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of PROJECT HOUSEWORKS’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 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
Jim Clements
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 18 funders, grant income rose $305k → $860k.
7 of 40 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 19% 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 HOUSEWORKS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 40 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 HOUSEWORKS has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
44% 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 HOUSEWORKS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 33% · 2018 26% · 2019 23% · 2020 16% · 2021 40% · 2022 20% · 2023 23% — 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
72% of PROJECT HOUSEWORKS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% 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
85% of PROJECT HOUSEWORKS's grant income comes from Nebraska funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.8M arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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 HOUSEWORKS runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 11,274 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,274 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like PROJECT HOUSEWORKS
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 Nebraska
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
55%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PROJECT HOUSEWORKS: 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 HOUSEWORKS?
- PROJECT HOUSEWORKS (Nebraska) receives grants from 40 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,725,121 to it, the largest being THE SHERWOOD FOUNDATION ($2,042,690). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PROJECT HOUSEWORKS have?
- IRS filings report 40 organizations giving $9,725,121 in grants to PROJECT HOUSEWORKS, 23 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PROJECT HOUSEWORKS?
- THE SHERWOOD FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,042,690 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PROJECT HOUSEWORKS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Nebraska. 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 40 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing