California · Nonprofit
PROYECTO ITZAES
PROYECTO ITZAES (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $36,327 to it, the largest being THE OPALINE FUND ($30,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $55k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $36k
- Net assets
- $311k
What Proyecto Itzaes does
Mission
Proyecto Itzaes is organized for charitable and educational purposes, in Yucatan, Mexico. The mission of Proyecto Itzaes is to provide educational resources for children and families in villages in Yucatán where traditional farming and fishing can no longer support families. We believe that the fundamental tools of literacy should be available to all. Our goal is to build sustainable community service programs that promote family-centered learning and respect Maya cultural heritage. Education will create new opportunities for children to fully realize their gifts in a changing world. Vision We envision a future where children in Yucatec villages have full opportunities to achieve the education necessary for successful participation in a changing economy. We hope to be an organization that builds and spreads a successful mode of sustainable community service based educational programs
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Proyecto Itzaes is organized for charitable and educational purposes, in Yucatan, Mexico. The mission of Proyecto Itzaes is to provide educational resources for children and families in villages in Yucatan where traditional farming and fishing can no longer support families. We believe that the fundamental tools of literacy should be available to all. Our goal is to build sustainable community service programs that promote family centered learning and respect Maya cultural heritage. Education will create new opportunities for children to fully realize their gifts in a changing world. Vision We envision a future where children in Yucatec villages have full opportunities to achieve the education necessary for successful participation in a changing economy. We hope to be an organization that builds and spreads a successful mode of sustainable community service based educational programs.
$11,317 spent33% of program spendingProyecto Itzaes volunteers mentored learning in small groups in multiple Maya villages. This includes the book exchange program, computer loans for students, bus fare stipends for university level students and printing/photo copy costs for students who cannot afford to purchase text books. Approximately 1500 students in four main villages (Ixil, Chicxulub Pueblo, Hacienda Too and Dzemul) benefitted from these programs Summer programs have been over enrolled providing supplemental education and tutorial support for hundreds of children in multiple locations along with special classes for adults.$5000
$11,317 spent33% of program spendingMaya cultural preservation and support in all of Proyecto Itzaes locations included group gatherings, science fairs, language classes and special events like Hanal Pixan and Je'etz Me'ek celebrations reinforced traditions This was accomplished with Maya classes from preschool to adult, prehispanic music ( traditional Maya music with handmade instruments), Maya traditional dance classes, Maya ceremonies, Maya agricultural practices and more.
$11,317 spent33% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $33,951.
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 2022 to 2023, from $201k to $296k (+47%).
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.
84% of PROYECTO ITZAES’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (65% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Cynthia J Wilber
Exec Director/CEO
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $6k → $34.
2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 17% 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 PROYECTO ITZAES’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
PROYECTO ITZAES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 83% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 PROYECTO ITZAES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 99% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
100% of PROYECTO ITZAES's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
PROYECTO ITZAES runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 21,859 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,859 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like PROYECTO ITZAES
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.
Public support
96%
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 PROYECTO ITZAES: 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 PROYECTO ITZAES?
- PROYECTO ITZAES (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $36,327 to it, the largest being THE OPALINE FUND ($30,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PROYECTO ITZAES have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $36,327 in grants to PROYECTO ITZAES, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PROYECTO ITZAES?
- THE OPALINE FUND is the largest funder on record, with $30,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PROYECTO ITZAES 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 3 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