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The Sophia Project Inc

The Sophia Project Inc (Missouri) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $184,922 to it, the largest being AREA RESOURCES FOR COMMUNITY & HUMAN SERVICES ($134,179). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2023
$237k
Funders on record
8
Grants received
$185k
Net assets
$41k
2/8 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 25%
01What it does

What The Sophia Project Inc does

Mission

To engage, educate, and empower young women to make sound decisions, embrace personal awareness, and build healthy relationships.

As stated on its FY2023 Form 990.

Program

  1. Inschool mentoring sessions, instill motivation, career development, and life skills over two semesters. Empower young women through the Urban Girl Institute. This initiative offers a unique platform for girls to further explore personal growth, leadership skills and community engage. Every Friday evening throughout the school year, young women from our program, representing various schools,come together as a united force.

    $171,925 spent$236,813 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $171,925.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 = 20222022 Revenue 100 ($116k) Expenses 100 ($108k) Net assets 100 ($7k)2023 Revenue 205 ($237k) Expenses 181 ($196k) Net assets 565 ($41k)
20222023
Revenue (205)Expenses (181)Net assets (565)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 2022 to 2023, from $7k to $41k (+465%).

$7k
$41k
20222023
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.

2022
2023
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2023 100%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

100% of The Sophia Project Inc’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (73% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 1,446 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.

$7k
’22
$41k
’23
2.5
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

Dawn Price

Executive Director

Board chair

Marsha Reynolds

Chairwoman

As listed on its FY2023 Form 990.

03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $8k → $60k.

2 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 8% 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 Sophia 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 Sophia Project Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 73% of grant income and the top three 86%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder 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 Sophia Project Inc.

73%
largest funder
86%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 69% · 2023 77% — 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 Sophia Project Inc's funders are still giving 1 year after their first grant; 25% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y

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 Sophia Project Inc's grant income comes from Missouri funders.

MO
DC

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

’17
’22
’23
Missouri out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $15k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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 Sophia Project Inc has grown faster than three-quarters of the 1,354 unclassified nonprofits its size.

Operating margin17% · above the median
Months of reserve2.5mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)105% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,354 unclassified nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2023

Organizations like The Sophia Project Inc

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 Missouri

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

88% of spending goes to programs.

Program 88%Management 12%Fundraising 0%

Governance

5
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

51%

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 Sophia Project Inc?
The Sophia Project Inc (Missouri) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $184,922 to it, the largest being AREA RESOURCES FOR COMMUNITY & HUMAN SERVICES ($134,179). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does The Sophia Project Inc have?
IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $184,922 in grants to The Sophia Project Inc, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of The Sophia Project Inc?
AREA RESOURCES FOR COMMUNITY & HUMAN SERVICES is the largest funder on record, with $134,179 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like The Sophia Project Inc find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Missouri. 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 FY2023 (financials across 2022–2023), and the filings of 8 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