Colorado · Nonprofit
PROJECT OUR TOWN
PROJECT OUR TOWN (Colorado) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $90,136 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($20,666). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 82% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $164k
- Funders on record
- 13
- Grants received
- $90k
- Net assets
- $125k
What Project Our Town does
Mission
To provide meaningful volunteer opportunities that make a difference for those in need in the Denver-metro area
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Weekend of Action - 20563 A 4-day event including Volunteers 1206 Volunteer Hours 1670 Volunteer Projects around the Denver Metro Area 108 Non-Profit Organization Beneficiaries 56 Highlight of expenses 1200 Winter Essentials Kits rain poncho first aid kit gloves hat scarf blanket neck gator socks and personal care items Additional care packages made Feminine Hygiene for Justice Necessary Blankets for Gateway Domestic Violence Center Goodie Bags for Castle Country Assisted Living Paracords for Operation Gratitude Hot Cocoa kits for Motherwise Organized volunteer opportunities around the Denver-Metro Area including GroceryFood distribution The Action Center SECOR Cares Covenant Cupboard North Denver Food Pantry Serving Meals Denver Rescue Mission So All May Eat Break Bread Sort donations Clothes to Kids The Gathering Place The Delores Project Wee Cycle Outdoor maintenance Thorne Nature Experience A Little Help Edwards Animals Cleaning Organizing Judis House Habitat for Humanity The Village Exchange Center
$20,563 spent28% of program spendingSchool Supply Drive - 19551 Beneficiary Colorado Dept of Education - Treatment Facility Schools for students who are unable to thrive in traditional public school settings Includes residential day schools hospitals Provided approximately 300 backpacks filled with school supplies as well as school supplies for teachers classrooms About 30 volunteers worked on this project
$19,551 spent27% of program spendingBean Soup Project - 18892 To provide nourishing protein-rich meals to those in need around the Denver-metro area of lbs of bean soup packaged donated 16179 of servings 129432 of sessions held - about 25 of volunteers - 1000 Beneficiaries are food pantries around the Denver-metro area including City Harvest Covenant Cupboard Denver Green Denver Rescue Mission Food Bank of the Rockies Food for Thought the Village Exchange Center and more Volunteers to pack bean soup packets include individuals churches schools as well as businesses across the Denver Metro Area ie Edward Jones GEVO Martin Martin Mariner Wealth etc
$18,892 spent26% of program spendingOther Program services describe in Schedule O
$13,575 spent19% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $72,581.
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 $101k to $153k (+51%).
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.
98% of PROJECT OUR TOWN’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (62% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Cindy Abramson
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 4 funders to 2 funders, grant income fell $9k → $6k.
7 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 82% 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 OUR TOWN’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 OUR TOWN has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 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 OUR TOWN.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 91% · 2021 98% · 2022 51% · 2023 98% — 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
25% of PROJECT OUR TOWN's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 23% 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
82% of PROJECT OUR TOWN's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $16k that is directly attributable, 83% of it comes from Colorado funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $74k 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.
Against its field
PROJECT OUR TOWN runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 11,971 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,971 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like PROJECT OUR TOWN
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
86%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PROJECT OUR TOWN: 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 OUR TOWN?
- PROJECT OUR TOWN (Colorado) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $90,136 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($20,666). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 82% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does PROJECT OUR TOWN have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $90,136 in grants to PROJECT OUR TOWN, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PROJECT OUR TOWN?
- NETWORK FOR GOOD is the largest funder on record, with $20,666 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PROJECT OUR TOWN 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 FY2024 (financials across 2021–2024), and the filings of 13 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