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PROJECT TRANSFORMATION NATIONAL

PROJECT TRANSFORMATION NATIONAL (Texas) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,343,808 to it, the largest being LILLY ENDOWMENT INC ($4,500,480). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$4.7M
Funders on record
17
Grants received
$5.3M
Net assets
$3.2M
8/17 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 47%
01What it does

What Project Transformation National does

Mission

Project Transformations mission is to transform communities by engaging children, college-age young adults, and churches in purposeful relationships. We envision a world that is rooted in love, pursues the equity of all people, and amplifies Gods call on every life.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. PT National supported a network of seven affiliated chapters in Arkansas, Central Texas, North Texas, Oklahoma, South Rio Texas, Tennessee, and Washington, DC with network results as follows. CHILDREN 635 children and youth participated 60 of program days in PTs summer programs, resulting in 90 of children maintaining or improving their reading levels. 4,524 books were distributed to children for at-home libraries. YOUNG ADULTS 187 young adults served summer service terms, leading summer programming with children and discerning their vocation. 14 Community Directors were hired to lead spiritual programming and intentional community across the network. CHURCHES 31 churches hosted PTs summer camps with 118 partnering churches and organizations and 2,000 volunteers serving with PT.

    $1,680,387 spentof which $1,271,612 as grants$56,543 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,680,387.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($689k) Expenses 100 ($377k) Net assets 100 ($526k)2018 Revenue 121 ($832k) Expenses 176 ($663k) Net assets 132 ($695k)2019 Revenue 78 ($541k) Expenses 182 ($687k) Net assets 104 ($548k)2020 Revenue 67 ($463k) Expenses 192 ($726k) Net assets 54 ($285k)2021 Revenue 64 ($438k) Expenses 114 ($430k) Net assets 56 ($293k)2022 Revenue 91 ($630k) Expenses 137 ($518k) Net assets 77 ($405k)2023 Revenue 67 ($465k) Expenses 147 ($554k) Net assets 60 ($315k)2024 Revenue 98 ($677k) Expenses 179 ($674k) Net assets 60 ($318k)2025 Revenue 685 ($4.7M) Expenses 494 ($1.9M) Net assets 604 ($3.2M)
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Revenue (685)Expenses (494)Net assets (604)Peer revenue range

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 $342k to $3.2M (+849%).

$587k
$777k
$551k
$290k
$301k
$412k
$346k
$342k
$3.2M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 12% · 2021 13% · 2022 8% · 2023 11% · 2024 28%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

98% of PROJECT TRANSFORMATION NATIONAL’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,352 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$312k
’17
$168k
’18
−$146k
’19
−$263k
’20
$8k
’21
$111k
’22
−$89k
’23
$3k
’24
$2.9M
’25
3.0
months of
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

Casey Mellody

CEO

Board chair

Dub Newman

Board Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed9811141113151513
Joined·+0+4+4+2+3+4+1+4
No longer listed·11151216
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $16k → $203k.

6 of 17 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 11% 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 TRANSFORMATION NATIONAL’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 TRANSFORMATION NATIONAL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 84% of grant income and the top three 93%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

84%
largest funder
93%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 63% · 2018 59% · 2019 79% · 2020 32% · 2021 55% · 2022 28% · 2023 49% — 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

36% of PROJECT TRANSFORMATION NATIONAL's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 47% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

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

PROJECT TRANSFORMATION NATIONAL draws 95% of its grant income from funders outside Texas, across 3 states in all.

IN
GA
TX

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’23
Texas out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $600k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

PROJECT TRANSFORMATION NATIONAL runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin61% · top quartile
Months of reserve3.0mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)27% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Government funding PROJECT TRANSFORMATION NATIONAL receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $240k on record.

Federal$240k
grants $240kcontracts $0
Top agencies
  • Corporation for National and Community Service$240k

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 TRANSFORMATION NATIONAL

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 Texas

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

90% of spending goes to programs.

Program 90%Management 4%Fundraising 6%

Governance

12
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention–Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

79%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds PROJECT TRANSFORMATION NATIONAL?
PROJECT TRANSFORMATION NATIONAL (Texas) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,343,808 to it, the largest being LILLY ENDOWMENT INC ($4,500,480). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does PROJECT TRANSFORMATION NATIONAL have?
IRS filings report 17 organizations giving $5,343,808 in grants to PROJECT TRANSFORMATION NATIONAL, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of PROJECT TRANSFORMATION NATIONAL?
LILLY ENDOWMENT INC is the largest funder on record, with $4,500,480 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like PROJECT TRANSFORMATION NATIONAL find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 17 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