California · Nonprofit
PROJECT SLEEP
PROJECT SLEEP (California) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $182,328 to it, the largest being JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SAN DIEGO ($105,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 77% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.1M
- Funders on record
- 13
- Grants received
- $182k
- Net assets
- $715k
What Project Sleep does
Mission
Believing in the value of sleep, Project Sleep aims to improve public health by educating individuals about the importance of sleep health and sleep disorders. Project Sleep will educate and empower individuals using events, campaigns and programs to bring people together and talk about sleep as a pillar of health.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2024 return the organization reported starting a significant new program.
Project Sleep Helpline - The Sleep Helpline is a free national helpline providing personalized support and resources for people facing sleep issues and sleep disorders. In 2024, our compassionate Sleep Helpline staff supported over 500 individuals by listening and helping to provide navigational support along their sleep journey.
$238,876 spent29% of program spendingSleep Advocacy Program - The Sleep Advocacy Program aims to educate policymakers about sleep, ensuring sleeps place in the federal advocacy process and increasing the effective coordination of sleep-related advocacy to improve outcomes for patients. This initiative involves a year-round national advocacy program, a grassroots advocacy program, and a centerpiece Sleep Advocacy Forum. IN 2024, the Sleep Advocacy Forum brought together a diverse group of policy makers and sleep community leaders to share updates and discuss areas of common interest. The 2024 meeting theme was public health and sleep.
$183,381 spent23% of program spendingNarcolepsy Awareness Program - The Narcolepsy Awareness Program increases awareness to key audiences who are currently lacking knowledge and understanding of narcolepsy using speaking engagements and news media campaigns. The program also reduces stigma and fosters knowledge by providing key educational tools and resources to people living with narcolepsy and their loved ones. In 2024, we also celebrated World Narcolepsy Day with online events and story sharing sessions to elevate diverse stories and perspectives from around the world.
$96,323 spent12% of program spendingSleep Apnea Education & Awareness Program - The program aims to:1. Improve the lives of people living with sleep apnea and their loved ones by increasing accurate information and education available, developed by an independent, well-established non-profit organization with a track record for excellence in collaboration with leading sleep apnea experts including patient advocates, clinicians, and researchers2. Reduce delays to proper diagnosis of sleep apnea by accelerating innovative and effective awareness, leveraging Project Sleeps current programming while also building new high-impact initiatives 3. Reduce the stigma and stereotypes of sleep apnea by elevating diverse, under-represented voices, photos, and videos of real people living with sleep apnea from Project Sleeps growing sleep apnea community In July 2024, the Sleep Apnea Education and Awareness Program launched the Sleep Apnea Squad, an educational program covering various topics to help people living with sleep apnea navigate both the medical journey and the social experience. Given that people have different learning styles, the Sleep Apnea Squad develops well-vetted accurate content to be disseminated in various…
$84,699 spent10% of program spendingRising Voices Program - To improve public understanding of sleep disorders, Project Sleep's Rising Voices program trains people with sleep disorders to effectively raise awareness through public speaking. Graduates are equipped to share their stories with health care providers, universities, local communities, news outlets, podcasts, blogs and beyond. Rising Voices combines the power of authentic storytelling with expert communication strategies to raise awareness and reduce stigma for all those living with a sleep disorder. As of 2024, there are over 160 trained Rising Voices speakers in 20 countries around the world.
$83,366 spent$2,557 earned by the program10% of program spendingHollywood & Sleep Initiative - In September 2024, Project Sleep launched the Hollywood & Sleep Initiative, a partnership with Hollywood, Health & Society (HH&S), a program of USCs Norman Lear Center, working with TV writers and producers to revolutionize portrayals of sleep health and sleep disorders in television. This groundbreaking collaboration seeks to ensure that sleep-related storylines on television are accurate, engaging, and reflective of real-life experiences. With the majority of the 50 to 70 million Americans affected by chronic sleep conditions currently undiagnosed, authentic and impactful media representation is more than just importantits essential.
$78,129 spent10% of program spendingJack & Julie Narcolepsy Scholarship Program - Project Sleeps Jack & Julie Narcolepsy Scholarship is the first-ever national scholarship program supporting students with narcolepsy while also raising narcolepsy awareness in high school and college settings. In 2024, Project Sleep awarded 36 scholarshipseach worth $1,000to college-bound students diagnosed with narcolepsy or idiopathic hypersomnia. Recipients included 31 students with narcolepsy and 5 with idiopathic hypersomnia, marking a record-sized class. The program has now awarded 228 scholarships to 228 students, totaling $228,000 over 11 years
$47,030 spentof which $36,000 as grants6% of program spending
The 7 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $811,804.
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 $386k to $658k (+70%).
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 20% · 2018 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of PROJECT SLEEP’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. 1 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
Julie Louise Flygare
President & CEO
Board chair
Jenny Talbert Dc
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 6 funders, grant income fell $23k → $22k.
5 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 77% 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 SLEEP’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 12 of 13 funders by total. 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 SLEEP leans on a few funders — its largest provides 58% of grant income and the top three 75%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder 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 SLEEP.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 44% · 2019 83% · 2020 85% · 2021 88% · 2022 71% · 2023 86% — 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
60% of PROJECT SLEEP's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 46% 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
77% of PROJECT SLEEP'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 $42k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside California, across 7 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $141k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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 SLEEP runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 8,121 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 8,121 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like PROJECT SLEEP
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
93% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
33%
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 SLEEP: 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 SLEEP?
- PROJECT SLEEP (California) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $182,328 to it, the largest being JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SAN DIEGO ($105,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 77% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does PROJECT SLEEP have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $182,328 in grants to PROJECT SLEEP, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PROJECT SLEEP?
- JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SAN DIEGO is the largest funder on record, with $105,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PROJECT SLEEP 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.
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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 2017–2024), 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