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THE NVLD PROJECT INC

THE NVLD PROJECT INC (New York) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,782,139 to it, the largest being LAURA LEMLE FAMILY FOUNDATION ($1,398,133). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$373k
Funders on record
20
Grants received
$1.8M
Net assets
$-984457
11/20 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 76%
01What it does

What The Nvld Project Inc does

Mission

The nvld project is dedicated to raising awareness, building suppport and creating helpful solutions for children, adolescents, and adults with non-verbal learning disability. This goal is accomplished through a variety of programs, including educational workshops, research, and ongoing advocacy long term. The nvld project seeks to define and establish nvld as a valid disorder in the diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (dsm)

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. The goals of the organization are to support research to clearlydefine the disorder, support research and analysis to understandthe etiology of the disorder and support and guide research anddevelopment of state of the art interventions to aid people withthe disorder and their families. The organization spends its timeidentifying and administering grants to organizations engaged inmore of the aforementioned research areas.

    $319,257 spentof which $230,000 as grants$1,235 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $319,257.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($38k) Expenses 100 ($381k)2018 Revenue 270 ($103k) Expenses 124 ($473k)2019 Revenue 618 ($236k) Expenses 101 ($383k)2020 Revenue 553 ($211k) Expenses 105 ($401k)2021 Revenue 1562 ($595k) Expenses 134 ($509k)2022 Revenue 912 ($348k) Expenses 101 ($384k)2023 Revenue 851 ($324k) Expenses 100 ($381k)2024 Revenue 977 ($373k) Expenses 84 ($320k)
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Revenue (977)Expenses (84)Peer revenue range

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 $18k to $105k (+475%).

$79k
$14k
$73k
$18k
$105k
$69k
$12k
$65k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 13% · 2021 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

103% of THE NVLD PROJECT INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,547 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$342k
’17
−$370k
’18
−$147k
’19
−$190k
’20
$87k
’21
−$36k
’22
−$57k
’23
$53k
’24
2.4
months of
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

Paula M Dennis

Executive director

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed12255556
Joined····+0+0+0+1
No longer listed····0000
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $10k → $231k.

4 of 20 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 11% 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 NVLD PROJECT 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

THE NVLD PROJECT INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 78% of grant income and the top three 90%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

78%
largest funder
90%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 83% · 2018 74% · 2019 78% · 2020 75% · 2021 68% · 2022 71% · 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

70% of THE NVLD PROJECT INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

94% of THE NVLD PROJECT INC's grant income comes from New York funders.

MN
MI
NY
MA
CA
CO
MD
DE

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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New York out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $195k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

THE NVLD PROJECT INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin14% · above the median
Months of reserve2.4mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)38% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Organizations like THE NVLD PROJECT INC

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

51% of spending goes to programs.

Program 51%Management 9%Fundraising 40%

Governance

4
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

41%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

NY

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Questions and answers

Who funds THE NVLD PROJECT INC?
THE NVLD PROJECT INC (New York) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,782,139 to it, the largest being LAURA LEMLE FAMILY FOUNDATION ($1,398,133). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does THE NVLD PROJECT INC have?
IRS filings report 20 organizations giving $1,782,139 in grants to THE NVLD PROJECT INC, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of THE NVLD PROJECT INC?
LAURA LEMLE FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,398,133 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like THE NVLD PROJECT INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

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 20 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