Nevada · Nonprofit
Project REAL
Project REAL (Nevada) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $261,544 to it, the largest being NEVADA BAR FOUNDATION ($80,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $178k
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $262k
- Net assets
- $-71959
What Project REAL does
Mission
Project REAL fosters civic engagement and critical thinking to cultivate responsibility and self-agency.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Established in 2005, we've impacted over 235,000 young individuals in Nevada. All of our resources and experiences are provided for free to the schools, families, and students of Nevada that we serve.The only program - The SEP - served 14,354 people with at least 43,297 hours of service. Of those not taking part in our Behavior Intervention (45 minutes) or Book Distributions (15 minutes), the average amount of direct service being provided by Project REAL was 4.5 hours each. Continued on Sch. OWithin the single SEP program, we do have resources, and our top two expenses were Courts & You (approx. $63,000) and Adulting101 (approx. $83,000). Courts & You served 5,869.5 hours across 1,677 program participants. Adulting101 distributed over 9,945 books, with nearly half only being donated after Project REAL was allowed to deliver an 80-minute relationship violence prevention experience to the students.
$226,733 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $226,733.
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 2023 to 2024, from $42k to $233k (+451%).
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 47% · 2018 42% · 2019 12% · 2020 35% · 2021 57% · 2022 63% · 2023 78% · 2024 55% · 2025 68%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of Project REAL’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (76% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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
Michael Kamer
Secretary & Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $5k → $49k.
3 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 38% 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 REAL’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 REAL has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 31% 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
88% 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 REAL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 99% · 2022 50% · 2023 51% — 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
25% of Project REAL's funders are still giving 3 years 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
88% of Project REAL's grant income comes from Nevada funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $99k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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 REAL's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 5 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 169 social science nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Project REAL
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 Nevada
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 REAL: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. Screen this nonprofit · How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds Project REAL?
- Project REAL (Nevada) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $261,544 to it, the largest being NEVADA BAR FOUNDATION ($80,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Project REAL have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $261,544 in grants to Project REAL, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Project REAL?
- NEVADA BAR FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $80,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Project REAL find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Nevada. 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 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