Wisconsin · Nonprofit
PROJECT RETURN INC
PROJECT RETURN INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,432,906 to it, the largest being REVA AND DAVID LOGAN FOUNDATION ($465,275). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.0M
- Funders on record
- 21
- Grants received
- $1.4M
- Net assets
- $276k
What Project Return Inc does
Mission
Project return exists to help men and women who have experienced incarceration make a positive, permanent return to family, friends and the community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Overview of services: project return continues to meet people where they are-even though they are often several steps behind their counterparts of just a few years ago. We create an individualized plan to help each client access the resources needed for employment success. Examples of the services we provide include: building employability skills and connecting people to specialized, short-term job training in high-demand occupations. Helping clients arrange transportation to get to and from training or work. Assisting with the cost of tuition or textbooks. Offering free, donated clothing from our resource room, as well as hygiene kits. Purchasing work tools or specialized, safety clothing. Helping people obtain food and housing. Providing training that prepares clients for leadership roles at work and in the community.circles of support our circles of support program continues to grow! These small groups meet regularly to provide a stable, supportive network to individuals returning from incarceration. They help to overcome the social isolation and stigma that those returning from incarceration encounter and enable them to realize new possibilities in their lives. Last year a…
$760,868 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $760,868.
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 2021 to 2022, from $133k to $308k (+132%).
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: 2020 12% · 2022 32% · 2023 12% · 2024 8% · 2025 17%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of PROJECT RETURN INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (51% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
Wendel Hruska
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $25k → $253k.
6 of 21 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 17% 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 RETURN INC’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 RETURN INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 32% of grant income and the top three 71%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
29% 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 RETURN INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 60% · 2018 38% · 2019 44% · 2020 56% · 2021 43% · 2022 49% · 2023 40% — 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 RETURN INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 52% 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
52% of PROJECT RETURN INC's grant income comes from Wisconsin funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $241k 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 RETURN INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 4,665 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,665 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding PROJECT RETURN INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $850k on record.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$850k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like PROJECT RETURN 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 Wisconsin
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
74%
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 RETURN 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 RETURN INC?
- PROJECT RETURN INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,432,906 to it, the largest being REVA AND DAVID LOGAN FOUNDATION ($465,275). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PROJECT RETURN INC have?
- IRS filings report 21 organizations giving $1,432,906 in grants to PROJECT RETURN INC, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PROJECT RETURN INC?
- REVA AND DAVID LOGAN FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $465,275 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PROJECT RETURN INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Wisconsin. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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 21 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