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PROJECT LETS INC

PROJECT LETS INC (Rhode Island) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $711,171 to it, the largest being BOREALIS PHILANTHROPY ($487,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$269k
Funders on record
11
Grants received
$711k
Net assets
$223k
5/11 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year
01What it does

What Project Lets Inc does

Mission

Project lets is a national grassroots organization and movement led by and for folks with lived experience of mental illness/madness, disability, trauma, & neurodivergence. We specialize in building just, responsive, and transformative peer support collectives and community mental health care structures that do not depend on state-sanctioned systems that trap our folks in the medical/prison-industrial complex. We work for and with multiple marginalized folks in our communities to provide access, political education, & material resources that are needed to survive and thrive. We believe in a world without systems of oppression, where non-carceral responses to crises are the norm

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Numerous trainings/workshops, conferences, and webinars to students, community members, administrators, mental health providers, medical professionals, and more. Our trainings/workshops are customizable to your needs + goals, and are available on a sliding scale for groups and organizations.

    $105,829 spentof which $100,966 as grants$18,849 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $105,829.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($309k) Expenses 100 ($95k) Net assets 100 ($245k)2021 Revenue 97 ($299k) Expenses 175 ($167k) Net assets 154 ($377k)2022 Revenue 49 ($150k) Expenses 204 ($195k) Net assets 136 ($332k)2023 Revenue 33 ($102k) Expenses 201 ($192k) Net assets 99 ($241k)2024 Revenue 87 ($269k) Expenses 301 ($287k) Net assets 91 ($223k)
20202021202220232024
Revenue (87)Expenses (301)Net assets (91)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $245k to $377k (+54%).

$245k
$377k
$332k
$241k
$223k
20202021202220232024
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.

2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 8% · 2021 53% · 2024 88%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

93% of PROJECT LETS INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (86% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 7,042 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

$213k
’20
$132k
’21
−$45k
’22
−$90k
’23
−$18k
’24
9.3
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.

202020212024
Listed223
Joined···
No longer listed···
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $30k → $107k.

6 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 22% 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 LETS 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 LETS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 68% of grant income and the top three 85%; half comes from just 1 funder.

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

91% 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 LETS INC.

68%
largest funder
85%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 83% · 2020 66% · 2021 57% · 2022 95% · 2023 93% — 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

33% of PROJECT LETS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 45% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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

PROJECT LETS INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Rhode Island, across 5 states in all.

MN
MA
PA
NJ
CA

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

’17
’20
’21
’22
’23
Rhode Island out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $154k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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

Against its field

PROJECT LETS INC is better cushioned than half of the 6,435 animals nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−7% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve9.3mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−3% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,435 animals nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Organizations like PROJECT LETS 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 Rhode Island

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

37% of spending goes to programs.

Program 37%Management 63%Fundraising 0%

Governance

2
board members
0%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

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

RI

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PROJECT LETS 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 LETS INC?
PROJECT LETS INC (Rhode Island) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $711,171 to it, the largest being BOREALIS PHILANTHROPY ($487,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does PROJECT LETS INC have?
IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $711,171 in grants to PROJECT LETS INC, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of PROJECT LETS INC?
BOREALIS PHILANTHROPY is the largest funder on record, with $487,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like PROJECT LETS INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Rhode Island. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

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 11 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