Texas · Nonprofit
THRU PROJECT
THRU PROJECT (Texas) receives grants from 32 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,606,320 to it, the largest being TEXAS CENTER FOR CHILD AND FAMILY STUDIES ($947,625). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.1M
- Funders on record
- 32
- Grants received
- $3.6M
- Net assets
- $2.1M
What Thru Project does
Mission
Thru Project empowers youth and young adults with a history of foster care to build independent, successful futures.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
1. Thru Project offers three housing programs for young adults with a history of foster care. These include supervised independent living (sil) for young adults ages 18-21 in extended foster care, vocational housing, and college housing. All housing programs provide fully furnished apartments, case management, and access to wrap-around services including mentoring, life skills, counseling, and occupational therapy. Vocational housing is offered during the duration of the participants' vocational certification classes. College housing lasts 1-4 years and houses students with a history of foster care attending alamo colleges, utsa, or texas a&m university-san antonio. In fye 25 89 young adults were housed.
$1,417,952 spent$160,661 earned by the program77% of program spending2. The mentoring program provides youth with the resources to achieve a successful life after foster care. Youth and young adults with a history of foster care, ages 14-25, are matched with a trained volunteer who can offer consistent support and encouragement. Mentors visit their mentees in-person each month and stay in regular communication. Ongoing training is provided throughout the year and focuses on issues relevant to foster care. In fy 25, the program matched 196 youth and young adults with a trained mentor.
$18,762 spent$2,126 earned by the program1% of program spending3. Breakthru mental wellness, offers mental health services to youth and young individuals. 49 individuals were serviced by the program in 2025.
$84,611 spent$9,592 earned by the program5% of program spendingBreakthru mental wellness offers mental health services to youth and young individuals. In fy25, 49 unique individuals were served in break thru.thru talks hosts life skills workshops bi-monthly all year round. These sessions provide essential skills for successfully navigating adulthood. Community partners, who are specialists in relevant topics, share their knowledge with young participants. In fy25 over 130 young adults participated in life skillsfostering connections, through a partnership with t-mobile, provides youth with cell phones at no cost to them. For many, this device is their sole means of accessing the internet and maintaining connections with friends, family, and community resources. In fy25, 38 cellphones were provided. Pass to success offers youth six-month via bus passes to assist with transportation needs. Additionally, it provides uber rides for youth to reach any events related to Thru Project. In fy25, 47 bus passes were given out and over 700 ride shares were provided to participants.
$331,556 spent$37,587 earned by the program18% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,852,881.
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 2023 to 2024, from $1.7M to $2.6M (+53%).
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: 2020 7% · 2024 16% · 2025 60%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
72% of THRU PROJECT’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 14 funders, grant income rose $200k → $790k.
7 of 32 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 27% 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 THRU PROJECT’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 32 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
THRU PROJECT has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 26% 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
66% 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 THRU PROJECT.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 85% · 2018 72% · 2019 83% · 2020 26% · 2021 37% · 2022 35% · 2023 34% — 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
55% of THRU PROJECT's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% 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
87% of THRU PROJECT's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $966k 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
THRU PROJECT holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 1,152 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,152 youth development nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like THRU 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 Texas
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
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THRU 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 THRU PROJECT?
- THRU PROJECT (Texas) receives grants from 32 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,606,320 to it, the largest being TEXAS CENTER FOR CHILD AND FAMILY STUDIES ($947,625). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THRU PROJECT have?
- IRS filings report 32 organizations giving $3,606,320 in grants to THRU PROJECT, 19 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THRU PROJECT?
- TEXAS CENTER FOR CHILD AND FAMILY STUDIES is the largest funder on record, with $947,625 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THRU PROJECT find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 32 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