Ohio · Nonprofit
THE DICK AND JANE PROJECT
THE DICK AND JANE PROJECT (Ohio) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $558,948 to it, the largest being COLUMBUS FOUNDATION ($115,850). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.5M
- Funders on record
- 18
- Grants received
- $559k
- Net assets
- $152k
What The Dick and Jane Project does
Mission
Using music as the catalyst, The Dick and Jane Project inspires middle school students to write.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
We, the change: launched in 2021 as a year round arts-based social emotional learning program in four columbus city schools middle schools. Under the guidance of a team of professional musicians, producers, videographers and visual artists, we met with small groups of 15 students at each school, for one class period five days a week. Together they created art across multiple genres and mediums, including a professionally recorded song, a music video, visual artwork, creative writing pieces, and self esteem focused vocal and stage performance instruction. These art projects examined needs in the community identified by students, who were then asked to develop a concrete action plan to positively impact their local community. For the second half of the project, through a student-led and student-defined service project, participants drew connections between their own lived experiences and issues of social justice and equity. Other youth/ adult programming: our youth/adult workshops incorporate arts-based social emotional learning processes to guide a small group of individuals through a creative process with support from professional artists and wav staff trained in trauma-informed…
$1,226,835 spent$93,114 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,226,835.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 $10k to $279k (+2667%).
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: 2021 12% · 2022 33% · 2023 77% · 2024 77%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
94% of THE DICK AND JANE PROJECT’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 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
Dawn Marinacci
Board chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 7 funders, grant income rose $25k → $90k.
5 of 18 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 35% 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 THE DICK AND JANE PROJECT’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
THE DICK AND JANE PROJECT has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
90% 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 THE DICK AND JANE PROJECT.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 99% · 2020 62% · 2021 55% · 2022 41% · 2023 29% — 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
50% of THE DICK AND JANE PROJECT's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 39% 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
79% of THE DICK AND JANE PROJECT's grant income comes from Ohio funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $194k 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
THE DICK AND JANE PROJECT has grown faster than three-quarters of the 1,928 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,928 youth development nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like THE DICK AND JANE PROJECT
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 Ohio
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE DICK AND JANE PROJECT?
- THE DICK AND JANE PROJECT (Ohio) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $558,948 to it, the largest being COLUMBUS FOUNDATION ($115,850). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE DICK AND JANE PROJECT have?
- IRS filings report 18 organizations giving $558,948 in grants to THE DICK AND JANE PROJECT, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE DICK AND JANE PROJECT?
- COLUMBUS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $115,850 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE DICK AND JANE PROJECT find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. 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 2020–2024), and the filings of 18 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