Oregon · Nonprofit
THE SHADOW PROJECT
THE SHADOW PROJECT (Oregon) receives grants from 49 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,601,876 to it, the largest being THE DELASKI FAMILY FOUNDATION ($634,500). 32 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.1M
- Funders on record
- 49
- Grants received
- $2.6M
- Net assets
- $866k
What The Shadow Project does
Mission
The mission of The Shadow Project is to make school more accessible and engaging for children with disabilities, so they can achieve their full potential. Since 2003, The Shadow Project has supported over 20,000 students impacted by autism, adhd, (continued on sch o) dyslexia and other learning challenges to improve their reading skills, build self-confidence, and shatter myths about what people with disabilities are capable of. Students in The Shadow Project have gone on to become classroom leaders, reading champions, and the first in their family to graduate high school.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The Shadow Project exists to make learning more accessible and engaging for children with disabilities, so they can achieve their full potential. We work with special education teachers and student support specialists in elementary schools and middle schools to strengthen skills, foster autonomy, and support the development of a positive self-identity for students with learning, attention, or behavioral challenges, especially dyslexia, adhd, autism and trauma. Since 2003, we have helped more than 20,000 capable students develop essential skills for school and life success, including goal-setting, perseverance, and emotional awareness. We serve students from diverse communities who face multiple complex barriers to success, including racism and ableism. (continued on sch o)we envision an education system that normalizes and celebrates learning differences and supports every student to thrive in school. Our organization provides evidence-based tools and strategies tailored to the needs of students with learning challenges. We support educators in integrating these resources into their curricula and building their skill sets for providing trauma-informed, neuroinclusive learning…
$633,987 spent$30,000 earned by the program100% of program spendingGoal setting (2,410 students in 58 schools):students earn educational reinforcers (books, sensory tools, school/art/writing supplies) to celebrate progress made toward academic and behavioral goals they set for themselves, such as reading for 15 minutes a day, turning in homework, or improving attendance. This teaches self-sufficiency, critical thinking skills, and perseverance, and leads to greater social and academic confidence.
Reading mentors (94 students in 8 schools):helps improve the reading skills of students reading below grade level by pairing them with a caring adult mentor who coaches them in the use of a specialized assistive reading technology. Students can see and hear words as they read, helping them build vocabulary, comprehension, and knowledge. Mentors provide encouragement when a student stumbles and teach them that it's okay to ask for help.
Supersensory spaces (129 students in 7 schools):designated breakout rooms that help children with learning, attention, or behavioral challenges develop skills to manage their emotions so they can remain connected to their classrooms, advocate for their needs, and feel included at school, as they move towards meeting important benchmarks. The rooms help students rebuild their sense of safety and exercise their social-emotional muscles.
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $633,987.
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 2024 to 2025, from $623k to $893k (+43%).
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 15% · 2024 8% · 2025 18%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of THE SHADOW PROJECT’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 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
Sharon Juenemann
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 24 funders, grant income rose $154k → $383k.
6 of 49 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 25% 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 SHADOW PROJECT’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 49 funders by total. 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 SHADOW PROJECT has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 24% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
35% 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 SHADOW PROJECT.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 47% · 2018 44% · 2019 30% · 2020 33% · 2021 22% · 2022 24% · 2023 24% — 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
40% of THE SHADOW PROJECT's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% 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 SHADOW PROJECT's grant income comes from Oregon funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $647k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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 SHADOW PROJECT runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 9,615 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,615 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding THE SHADOW PROJECT receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $298k on record.
- OTHER DISTRIBUTIONS TO SUBRECIPIENTS$163k
- DISTRIBUTION TO NON-PROFIT ORG$110k
- DISTRIBUTION TO NON-GOVERNMENTS$26k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like THE SHADOW 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 Oregon
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
74% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
81%
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 THE SHADOW 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 SHADOW PROJECT?
- THE SHADOW PROJECT (Oregon) receives grants from 49 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,601,876 to it, the largest being THE DELASKI FAMILY FOUNDATION ($634,500). 32 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE SHADOW PROJECT have?
- IRS filings report 49 organizations giving $2,601,876 in grants to THE SHADOW PROJECT, 32 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE SHADOW PROJECT?
- THE DELASKI FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $634,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE SHADOW PROJECT find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Oregon. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 49 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing