California · Nonprofit
PROJECT SENTINEL INC
PROJECT SENTINEL INC (California) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,137,171 to it, the largest being CONSUMER CREDIT COUNSELING SERVICE OF SAN FRANCISCO DBA BALANCE ($2,871,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.4M
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $4.1M
- Net assets
- $2.3M
What Project Sentinel Inc does
Mission
To develop and promote fairness and equality of housing opportunity for all protected persons and to advocate peaceful resolution of disputes for community welfare and harmony.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Dispute resolution services - dispute resolution case managers handled a total of 8,964 inquiries during the year ended june 30, 2025. They provided information on rental rights and responsibilities to 4,915 tenants, homeowners, and property managers of rental housing, along with counseling to support informed decision-making. An additional 3,650 tenants, homeowners, and property managers of rental housing attended workshops, webinars, and other community outreach activities. A total of 2,860 cases were opened for households needing extensive counseling, dispute resolution services, and rental assistance. Panels of volunteer and paid mediators, along with salaried staff, resolved rental disputes through arbitration, mediation, and conciliation.
$1,775,969 spent$10,400 earned by the program46% of program spendingFair housing - the fair housing center investigated 338 complaints of discrimination for the year ended june 30, 2025. A total of 566 people benefited from those investigations, and the organization's staff fielded 1,076 calls for information and referral. The organization brought seven cases to enforcement, resulting in settlements totaling $214,743 for civil rights violations under state and federal housing laws. The litigated settlement amounts for these cases also resulted in a recovery of $27,246 for project sentinel's staff time and dispersed resources. Many other fair housing cases were resolved through negotiation and advocacy, resulting in changes to non-compliant rental policies and practices, the granting of requested reasonable accommodations, (continued on schedule o)and the withdrawal of evictions. The organization conducted 240 formal outreach activities with community members from targeted underserved, low-income populations, community organizations serving those populations, and housing providers - an increase of 54 events from the prior fiscal year. Additionally, the organization distributed 9,699 educational materials, representing a 61% increase from last…
$1,431,565 spent$38,646 earned by the program37% of program spendingHud housing counseling - hud housing counseling ("hhc") provides needed and sometimes required counseling to homeowners and future homeowners. Most first-time homebuyer assistance programs require a certificate of either counseling or an educational workshop. Other government programs also require counseling for housing programs, such as applying for a reverse mortgage. Hhc also uses funds from the national mortgage settlement fund ("nmsf"), which is administered by the california housing finance agency ("calhfa"), to support its hud housing counseling program. It provides free housing counseling services to california households struggling to pay rent, mortgage, and living expenses. During the year ended june 30, 2025, hhc assisted 1,219 first-time homebuyers (continued on schedule o)in preparing for homeownership through homebuyer educational workshops and provided individual one-on-one pre-purchase counseling to an additional 865 households. Hhc also assisted 78 homeowners with mortgage default and delinquency counseling and provided reverse mortgage counseling to 631 households. Combined, a total of 2,793 individuals received homeownership education and counseling services.
$626,246 spent$941,636 earned by the program16% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,833,780.
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 $2.0M to $2.5M (+20%).
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 83% · 2019 90% · 2020 88% · 2021 92% · 2022 92% · 2023 90% · 2024 91% · 2025 73%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
77% of PROJECT SENTINEL INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 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
Carole Conn
Executive director
Board chair
Rebecca Pickart
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $35k → $977k.
5 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 3% 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 SENTINEL 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 SENTINEL INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 69% of grant income and the top three 95%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
85% 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 SENTINEL INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 85% · 2018 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 75% · 2022 70% · 2023 65% — 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
40% of PROJECT SENTINEL INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 70% 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
89% of PROJECT SENTINEL INC's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $128k 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 SENTINEL INC's funding base is broadening — from 2 funders to 6 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,064 youth development nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding PROJECT SENTINEL INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $4.5M on record.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$4.5M
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 SENTINEL 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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds PROJECT SENTINEL INC?
- PROJECT SENTINEL INC (California) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,137,171 to it, the largest being CONSUMER CREDIT COUNSELING SERVICE OF SAN FRANCISCO DBA BALANCE ($2,871,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PROJECT SENTINEL INC have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $4,137,171 in grants to PROJECT SENTINEL INC, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PROJECT SENTINEL INC?
- CONSUMER CREDIT COUNSELING SERVICE OF SAN FRANCISCO DBA BALANCE is the largest funder on record, with $2,871,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PROJECT SENTINEL INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 10 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