Colorado · Nonprofit
Project Merry Christmas
Project Merry Christmas (Colorado) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,500 to it, the largest being DOUBLE F FOUNDATION ($3,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2017
- $54k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $7k
- Net assets
- $26k
What Project Merry Christmas does
Mission
To provide Christmas gifts for the needy.
As stated on its FY2017 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Gifts and Christmas dinner were provided to many LaPlata County residents in need.
The first program described on its most recent Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2019: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 2 funders, grant income fell $4k → $3k.
From the IRS filings of Project Merry Christmas’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 Merry Christmas leans on a few funders — its largest provides 54% of grant income and the top three 100%; 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: 2018 50% · 2019 60% — 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.
Where its funders are
Project Merry Christmas draws 54% of its grant income from funders outside Colorado, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.
Organizations like Project Merry Christmas
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 Colorado
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
0%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Project Merry Christmas: 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 Merry Christmas?
- Project Merry Christmas (Colorado) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,500 to it, the largest being DOUBLE F FOUNDATION ($3,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Project Merry Christmas have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $6,500 in grants to Project Merry Christmas, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Project Merry Christmas?
- DOUBLE F FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $3,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Project Merry Christmas find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Colorado. 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 FY2017 (financials across 2017–2017), and the filings of 3 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