New Jersey · Nonprofit
PROJECT WRITE NOW INC
PROJECT WRITE NOW INC (New Jersey) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $213,224 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($99,875). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 64% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $333k
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $213k
- Net assets
- $51k
What Project Write Now Inc does
Mission
To help people of all ages become writers as they gain confidence, skills and insight needed to reach personal, academic and professional goals build a writing community that supports, inspires and motivates.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
2025 was a year of connection, creativity, and growth. We gathered to celebrate our community, honored partners who make our work possible, amplified voices through live storytelling and publications, expanded writing programs across schools and communities, and reached writers of all ages-reflecting the heart of project write now: storytelling as a force for belonging, healing, and change. A big highlight of the year was coming together in october for our annual community celebration, during which we honored our community partners with awards, including senator vin gopal, educator jenny morelli, the team at two river theater, and volunteers kelly cullen, jennifer gaites, and shanda mcmanus. We also featured readers from across our programs, including sklya bicca, miliani torres, joseph serrano-olguin, grace kellett, shani love, kate cordaro, and elyse kehoe. Another major highlight of 2025 was participating in the prudential north to shore festival with our sound bytes: stories & food for the soul event, in collaboration with the city of asbury park mayor's wellness committee and featuring stories shared by ten notable asbury park residents and delicious food from ada's gojjo,…
$281,631 spent$145,390 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $281,631.
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 2019 to 2020, from $16k to $59k (+263%).
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: 2020 4% · 2021 21%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
55% of PROJECT WRITE NOW INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $1k → $16k.
4 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 64% 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 WRITE NOW 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 WRITE NOW INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 47% of grant income and the top three 80%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
64% 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 WRITE NOW INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 85% · 2020 69% · 2021 69% · 2022 74% · 2023 97% — 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
75% of PROJECT WRITE NOW INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% 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
64% of PROJECT WRITE NOW INC'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 $77k that is directly attributable, 72% of it comes from New Jersey funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $136k 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 WRITE NOW INC has grown faster than half of the 17,450 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,450 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding PROJECT WRITE NOW INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $22k on record.
- GRANT IN AID$19k
- DIRECT STATE SERVICES - NON-SALARY$3k
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 WRITE NOW 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 New Jersey
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
79% 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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PROJECT WRITE NOW INC: 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 WRITE NOW INC?
- PROJECT WRITE NOW INC (New Jersey) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $213,224 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($99,875). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 64% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does PROJECT WRITE NOW INC have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $213,224 in grants to PROJECT WRITE NOW INC, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PROJECT WRITE NOW INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $99,875 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PROJECT WRITE NOW INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Jersey. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 12 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