West Virginia · Nonprofit
Project Rainbow
Project Rainbow (West Virginia) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $300,560 to it, the largest being WEST VIRGINIA COALITION TO END HOMELESSNESS INC ($260,060). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $304k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $301k
- Net assets
- $93k
What Project Rainbow does
Mission
Project Rainbow provides low-barrier emergency shelter street outreach and supportive services for individuals experiencing homelessness in West Virginia. The organization creates safe and affirming spaces where participants can access housing support healthcare referrals and essential resources to move toward stability and permanent housing.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Project Rainbow operates a shelter called Rainbow House which provides a safe low-barrier place for individuals to stay while they work toward stability.
$287,809 spent80% of program spendingProject Rainbows outreach program engages people who are unsheltered providing harm reduction support HIV prevention resources and connections to services and pathways to shelter or housing.
$42,940 spent12% of program spendingProject Rainbows food access initiative ensures that individuals have consistent access to meals and basic nourishment while they stabilize and work toward housing.
$27,888 spent8% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $358,637.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2024, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2024, 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 $109k to $93k (−14%).
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: 2024 60% · 2025 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of Project Rainbow’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (37% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 2 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
Erin Shelton
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 5% 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 Rainbow’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 Rainbow leans on a few funders — its largest provides 87% 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
92% 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 Rainbow.
“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
100% of Project Rainbow's grant income comes from West Virginia funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $16k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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 Rainbow has grown faster than three-quarters of the 4,980 housing & shelter nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,980 housing & shelter nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Project Rainbow
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 West Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Project Rainbow: 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 Rainbow?
- Project Rainbow (West Virginia) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $300,560 to it, the largest being WEST VIRGINIA COALITION TO END HOMELESSNESS INC ($260,060). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Project Rainbow have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $300,560 in grants to Project Rainbow, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Project Rainbow?
- WEST VIRGINIA COALITION TO END HOMELESSNESS INC is the largest funder on record, with $260,060 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Project Rainbow find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in West Virginia. 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 2024–2025), 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