Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
PROJECT OF EASTON INC
PROJECT OF EASTON INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 55 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,424,506 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($662,835). 37 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.3M
- Funders on record
- 55
- Grants received
- $2.4M
- Net assets
- $5.7M
What Project of Easton Inc does
Mission
Project of easton, inc.'s mission is to "build a better community by helping people to help themselves and education is key. Project was founded in 1968 by protestant, jewish, and catholic community leaders to provide coordinated services to an underserved population in easton, pennsylvania. Today, our education, workforce preparation, and safety net programs address the alarming poverty and low-literacy rates in the region by providing adults and children with holistic and integrated academic, life skills, and basic needs programming that helps them to break the cycle of poverty. Our programs help more than 5,000 people every year to receive the support they need to rise out of poverty and to succeed in school, work and life. Our clients go on to college, jobs and self-sufficiency, ready to participate in and improve their communities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Lifelong learning: education services adult literacy: project's success academy provides an adult literacy program that prepares disadvantaged adults for the workforce. Courses include ged preparation, english as a second language, and adult basic education. Our certified teachers use real-world contexts to prepare students for success in college, training programs, and/or employment.in addition to classroom instruction, tutors work with studentsone-on-one to prepare them for the ged test, u.s. Citizenship test, or to improve their english-language skills. Each student receives personal, educational, and economic support, including access to project's food pantry and emergency assistance services as needed.our program prepares adults to successfully carry out their roles and responsibilities as workers, citizens, and parents.goal: the goal of the adult literacy program is to improve adults' literacy skills and prepare them for the workforce, post-secondary education or training, and/or u.s. Citizenship.2024 - 2025 results392 students participated; 82% of students were post-tested; 86% made statistically significant learning gains;47 students earned their general equivalency…
$1,049,183 spentof which $46,696 as grants$4,537 earned by the program52% of program spendingMeeting basic needsemergency assistance: our emergency assistance program is committed to helping people meet their most basic needs as a foundation on which to build their capacity to care for themselves and move out of crisis.our program provides safety-net support, including access to shelter, rental assistance, and utility support. Using our longstanding relationships in the community, our case managers also provide information and referrals to community resources, including our own food pantry, education and life skills programming, ensuring a more seamless continuum of support.goal: the goal of the assist program is to help people living inpoverty meet their basic material needs so that they have a stable foundation on which to build toward self-reliance and upward economic mobility.2024 - 2025 resultshouseholds served: 616 1,314 people (605 adults, 499 children, 210 seniors) 100% (1,314/1,314) of households seeking services received information and referrals to community partners or were referred for emergency services through the 211 system100% (1,433/1,433) of households were referred to project's services, including our food pantry, adult & family literacy programs, and…
$873,927 spentof which $667,638 as grants44% of program spendingMoving to self-sufficiency: community supportive servicesstudent success program: project's student success program (ssp) is designed to close the achievement gap for at-risk elementary and middle school children and ensure their ultimate school success and graduation by promoting life skills and positive school engagement.2024-2025 results through the implementation of the evidence-based botvin life skills training program students learn the skills necessary to make positive decisions, resist social (peer) pressures to smoke, drink, and use drugs and ultimately to remain engaged in school and graduate.592 students participated in the program87% of all students participating in lst completed 80% of more of the curriculum 80% showed growth in at least one of 3 life skill areas100% of lst had at least one fidelity check
$85,332 spentof which $86 as grants4% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,008,442.
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 2024 to 2025, from $4.7M to $5.8M (+22%).
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 28% · 2018 25% · 2019 22% · 2020 21% · 2021 26% · 2022 31% · 2023 31% · 2024 30% · 2025 21%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of PROJECT OF EASTON INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 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
Kim Checkeye
CEO/executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 14 funders to 23 funders, grant income rose $94k → $311k.
8 of 55 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 36% 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 OF EASTON INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 55 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 OF EASTON INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 27% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
62% 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 OF EASTON INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 27% · 2018 24% · 2019 59% · 2020 45% · 2021 41% · 2022 25% · 2023 35% — 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
58% of PROJECT OF EASTON INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% 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
70% of PROJECT OF EASTON INC's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $866k 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 OF EASTON INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 6,891 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,891 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like PROJECT OF EASTON 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 Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PROJECT OF EASTON 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 OF EASTON INC?
- PROJECT OF EASTON INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 55 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,424,506 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($662,835). 37 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PROJECT OF EASTON INC have?
- IRS filings report 55 organizations giving $2,424,506 in grants to PROJECT OF EASTON INC, 37 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PROJECT OF EASTON INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $662,835 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PROJECT OF EASTON INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 55 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