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PROJECT VISION INC

PROJECT VISION INC (Illinois) receives grants from 40 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,761,557 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO INC ($297,686). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$2.7M
Funders on record
40
Grants received
$1.8M
Net assets
$377k
19/40 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 35%
01What it does

What Project Vision Inc does

Mission

Project: vision's mission is to help youth of chicago's chinatown, bridgeport, and surrounding communities achieve their full potential by providing them with tools for educational, personal, and civic development.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. The programs provided youths in grade 6-12 with after school programming including tutoring, college and career readiness, service learning, and leadership activities. The program strives to help youth achieve academic success and access higher education opportunities while also developing youth as confident, community-minded individuals who are equipped to be community leaders. The program also focuses on helping youths build social and emotional skills through enrichment programming in the arts and culture, sports, and science/technology.

    $2,754,038 spent$93,697 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,754,038.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($299k) Expenses 100 ($318k) Net assets 100 ($9k)2019 Revenue 146 ($438k) Expenses 112 ($357k) Net assets 992 ($89k)2020 Revenue 189 ($567k) Expenses 157 ($500k) Net assets 1733 ($156k)2021 Revenue 248 ($744k) Expenses 230 ($730k) Net assets 1883 ($170k)2022 Revenue 443 ($1.3M) Expenses 370 ($1.2M) Net assets 3552 ($320k)2023 Revenue 671 ($2.0M) Expenses 610 ($1.9M) Net assets 4339 ($391k)2024 Revenue 892 ($2.7M) Expenses 769 ($2.4M) Net assets 6827 ($616k)2025 Revenue 914 ($2.7M) Expenses 936 ($3.0M) Net assets 4177 ($377k)
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Revenue (914)Expenses (936)Net assets (4177)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 2022 to 2023, from $452k to $868k (+92%).

$62k
$129k
$232k
$312k
$452k
$868k
$763k
$1.1M
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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.

2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2019 11% · 2020 40% · 2021 64% · 2022 45% · 2023 69% · 2024 73% · 2025 77%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

94% of PROJECT VISION INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 2,038 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$18k
’18
$80k
’19
$67k
’20
$14k
’21
$151k
’22
$71k
’23
$224k
’24
−$239k
’25
1.5
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.

Board chair

Eva Liu

Chairman

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed9109899911
Joined·+5+2+3+5+1+1+4
No longer listed·4344112
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 18 funders, grant income rose $90k → $510k.

9 of 40 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 13% 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 VISION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 40 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 VISION INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 17% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left

51% 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 VISION INC.

17%
largest funder
44%
top three
~12
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 64% · 2018 86% · 2019 85% · 2020 45% · 2021 19% · 2022 29% · 2023 39% — 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

33% of PROJECT VISION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 48% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

87% of PROJECT VISION INC's grant income comes from Illinois funders.

IL
NY
CA
DE
TX
FL

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

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’22
’23
Illinois out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $229k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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 VISION INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 1,152 youth development nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−9% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve1.5mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)37% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,152 youth development nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Organizations like PROJECT VISION 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 Illinois

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

93% of spending goes to programs.

Program 93%Management 6%Fundraising 2%

Governance

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

Public support

100%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

IL

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Questions and answers

Who funds PROJECT VISION INC?
PROJECT VISION INC (Illinois) receives grants from 40 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,761,557 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO INC ($297,686). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does PROJECT VISION INC have?
IRS filings report 40 organizations giving $1,761,557 in grants to PROJECT VISION INC, 19 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of PROJECT VISION INC?
UNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO INC is the largest funder on record, with $297,686 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like PROJECT VISION 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 40 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