Texas · Nonprofit
PROJECT ONE DAY
PROJECT ONE DAY (Texas) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $951,885 to it, the largest being THE CHILDREN'S FUND INC ($300,500). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $688k
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $952k
- Net assets
- $1.0M
What Project One Day does
Mission
Our mission is to provide tuition-free, high-quality, christ-centered childcare for families in need by equipping parents and engaging them in the classroom to lower costs and improve classroom ratios.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
General programs - quality childcare is inaccessible to many families due to the high cost of maintaining legally required teacher-to-child ratios. Project One Day addresses this by training low-income parents to support experienced, christ-centered early childhood educators, enabling parents to earn a five-day childcare scholarship by volunteering one weekday each week. Access to affordable, licensed childcare empowers parents to pursue better career opportunities and continue their education while their children are in a safe, nurturing environment. Parents also receive valuable training, including pediatric cpr, first aid, and 30 hours of early childhood development education covering safety, abuse recognition, and developmental milestones. Because two-thirds of staff are volunteers, this model reduces operating costs by about 50%, creating a cost-effective program that builds a strong, connected, and equipped parent community.
$459,509 spent95% of program spendingFood program - Project One Day provides comprehensive daily nutrition for every child in our care, including formula, baby food, hot lunches, and snacks. By covering all food needs, the program helps keep childcare as free and accessible as possible for families. This approach ensures children receive consistent, healthy nutrition that supports their growth and development. It also addresses food insecurity, meeting a critical basic need for many children and their families.
$25,041 spent5% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $484,550.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 $581k to $913k (+57%).
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: 2022 12% · 2023 14% · 2024 0% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of PROJECT ONE DAY’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 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
Jennifer Johnson
Executive director
Board chair
Margaret Henry
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $30k → $154k.
4 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 50% 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 ONE DAY’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 ONE DAY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 32% of grant income and the top three 75%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
82% 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 ONE DAY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 67% · 2021 100% · 2022 56% · 2023 37% — 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
50% of PROJECT ONE DAY's funders are still giving 1 year after their first grant; 50% 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
95% of PROJECT ONE DAY's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $472k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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 ONE DAY has grown faster than three-quarters of the 13,062 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,062 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like PROJECT ONE DAY
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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
81%
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 ONE DAY: 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 ONE DAY?
- PROJECT ONE DAY (Texas) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $951,885 to it, the largest being THE CHILDREN'S FUND INC ($300,500). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PROJECT ONE DAY have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $951,885 in grants to PROJECT ONE DAY, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PROJECT ONE DAY?
- THE CHILDREN'S FUND INC is the largest funder on record, with $300,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PROJECT ONE DAY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 12 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