Washington · Nonprofit
THE IF PROJECT
THE IF PROJECT (Washington) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,068,410 to it, the largest being MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC ($360,000). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 76% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $572k
- Funders on record
- 23
- Grants received
- $1.1M
- Net assets
- $224k
What The If Project does
Mission
PRIMARY EXEMPT PURPOSE: The IF Project is a collaboration of currently-and formerly-incarcerated adults, community partners, and law enforcement focused on holistic intervention and the reduction and prevention of incarceration and recidivism. Our work is inspired by and built upon people sharing their personal life experiences around incarceration. We envision a world without mass incarceration and the impacts it creates. A world where our communities provide pathways to equitable opportunities, where we are all valued, and are free to explore who we want to become.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Reentry services for women - provide transitional support for women releasing from incarceration with the goal of reducing recidivism and unstable housing. Workshops preparing women for reentry, including health and wellness and individualized release plans, prior to leaving incarceration facilities. Referrals and resources for transitional and clean-and-sober housing, transportation, phones, professional development workshops and community mentoring upon release.
$279,768 spentof which $47,705 as grants$93,022 earned by the program56% of program spendingYouth workshops - youth programs focus on preventing incarceration and encouraging youth to ask for needed help. Formerly incarcerated adults share their heartfelt stories, which help youth open up about their own life and ask for help. Workshops are offered in schools, community centers, youth groups, churches, detention centers and juvenile prisons.
$129,781 spent$14,500 earned by the program26% of program spendingCommunity events - documentary screenings, volunteer and mentor training bring community together to support those impacted by incarceration. These events provide a groundbreaking way for community members to acknowledge the divide, hear the stories, seek to understand - and partner to produce powerful change in individual lives and in our communities.
$94,457 spent$35,180 earned by the program19% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $504,006.
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 2020 to 2021, from $853k to $328k (−62%).
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: 2022 18%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
75% of THE IF PROJECT’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (94% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 6 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.
Chief executive
Felisa Bryant
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 6 funders, grant income fell $105k → $75k.
9 of 23 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 76% 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 IF 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 IF PROJECT leans on a few funders — its largest provides 34% of grant income and the top three 65%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
85% 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 IF PROJECT.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 95% · 2018 58% · 2019 74% · 2020 58% · 2021 77% · 2022 63% · 2023 67% — 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
17% of THE IF PROJECT's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% 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
76% of THE IF 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 $259k that is directly attributable, 61% of it comes from Washington funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $809k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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 IF PROJECT receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $1.1M to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,547 crime & legal nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like THE IF 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 Washington
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
73%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE IF 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 IF PROJECT?
- THE IF PROJECT (Washington) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,068,410 to it, the largest being MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC ($360,000). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 76% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does THE IF PROJECT have?
- IRS filings report 23 organizations giving $1,068,410 in grants to THE IF PROJECT, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE IF PROJECT?
- MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC is the largest funder on record, with $360,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE IF PROJECT find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 23 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