Wisconsin · Nonprofit
THE FRESH PROJECT
THE FRESH PROJECT (Wisconsin) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $100,650 to it, the largest being LITTLE RAPIDS CORPORATION - EGAN FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($42,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 56% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $46k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $101k
- Net assets
- $57k
What The Fresh Project does
Programs
Mobile Market: served approximaetley 50 individuals per week end of June-September
$0 spentShawano Farmers market; served approximatley 1200 weekly for 16 weeks from mid June-Oct
$2,569 spentCommunity Supported Agriculture Boxes; served 94 individuals every two weeks for 7 weeks end of June- September
$0 spentProduce as a Perscirption
$0 spent
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-PF.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2021 to 2022, from $85k to $36k (−57%).
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.
Chief executive
David Mendoza
Executive director
Board chair
Nick Mau
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-PF.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $5k → $8k.
2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 56% 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 FRESH 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 FRESH PROJECT leans on a few funders — its largest provides 42% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
56% 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 FRESH PROJECT.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 68% · 2021 100% · 2022 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
56% of THE FRESH PROJECT'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 $45k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Wisconsin funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $56k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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 FRESH PROJECT is better cushioned than half of the 4,748 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,748 philanthropy nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like THE FRESH 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 Wisconsin
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE FRESH PROJECT: 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 THE FRESH PROJECT?
- THE FRESH PROJECT (Wisconsin) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $100,650 to it, the largest being LITTLE RAPIDS CORPORATION - EGAN FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($42,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 56% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does THE FRESH PROJECT have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $100,650 in grants to THE FRESH PROJECT, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE FRESH PROJECT?
- LITTLE RAPIDS CORPORATION - EGAN FAMILY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $42,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE FRESH PROJECT find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Wisconsin. 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 4 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