Illinois · Nonprofit
PROJECT UNLOADED INC
PROJECT UNLOADED INC (Illinois) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,914,950 to it, the largest being NEW VENTURE FUND ($966,260). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.2M
- Funders on record
- 22
- Grants received
- $2.9M
- Net assets
- $2.0M
What Project Unloaded Inc does
Mission
Project Unloaded Inc. (organization) is a non-profit corporation organized to prevent gun violence in all its forms by educating, engaging, and empowering teens through cultural campaigns and community partnerships that share a simple message: guns make us less safe.project unloaded sits at the intersection of public health, youth engagement, social marketing and culture. Through large-scale, data-backed social media campaigns, original research, teen-facing local programs, and inspiring youth leaders, we combine young people's love of social media with a gun violence prevention message that can reduce gun use and save lives.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Our campaigns leverage the power of social media and gen z to reach american teens with a message that sticks. Whether it's through a post on their favorite social media platform or a message via trusted gaming or lifestyle influencers, we reach young people at scale with the information they need to make informed, independent choices about owning and using guns.
$812,391 spent54% of program spendingThrough our community partner program, project unloaded works with teen-facing organizations to empower young people with the facts on why they're safer unarmed and to train teens on how to use social media to spread that message to their peers.
$233,579 spent$8,207 earned by the program16% of program spendingYoung people are at the heart of everything we do at project unloaded. Our teen and young adult leaders are the creative engines behind our social media campaigns, reaching their peers with the life-saving message that guns make us less safe. Project unloaded is proudly supported by two teams of young people. Our youth council advises on upcoming campaigns, shapes our digital presence, and develops their own creative and community projects to engage their networks around the message that we're safer unarmed. In 2024, we expanded our opportunities for young leaders, with the formation of our inaugural creator corps, which focuses on social media strategy and content creation.
$237,571 spent16% of program spendingThe organization's original research generates critical insights that both inform its programs and advance the broader field of gun violence prevention. This work spans key areas including firearm risk education as a public health strategy, in-depth analysis of gen z perspectives and experiences related to gun violence, and the influence of social media and culture in shaping prevention efforts. Through this research, the organization demonstratesits role as a thought leader and innovator, driving evidence-based approaches to reduce gun violence and improve community safety.
$209,712 spent14% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,493,253.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2024, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2024, 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 2024 to 2025, from $2.7M to $2.0M (−26%).
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.
99% of PROJECT UNLOADED INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (70% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 2 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.
Board chair
Shira Goodman
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
4 of 22 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 42% 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 UNLOADED 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 UNLOADED INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 33% of grant income and the top three 61%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
42% 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 UNLOADED INC.
“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.
Where its funders are
65% of PROJECT UNLOADED INC's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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 UNLOADED INC is better cushioned than half of the 513 public safety & disaster nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 513 public safety & disaster nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like PROJECT UNLOADED INC
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In Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 4 states
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Questions and answers
- Who funds PROJECT UNLOADED INC?
- PROJECT UNLOADED INC (Illinois) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,914,950 to it, the largest being NEW VENTURE FUND ($966,260). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PROJECT UNLOADED INC have?
- IRS filings report 22 organizations giving $2,914,950 in grants to PROJECT UNLOADED INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PROJECT UNLOADED INC?
- NEW VENTURE FUND is the largest funder on record, with $966,260 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PROJECT UNLOADED INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 2024–2025), and the filings of 22 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing