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THE WELMAN PROJECT

EIN 81-1116926 FORT WORTH, TX

Revenue 2024
$3,439,539
Expenses 2024
$3,374,852

Program services were 97.8% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
A25
Classification
1200
Street
2109 S MAIN STREET

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

The Welman Project is on a mission to fill a classroom, not a landfill. We provide free supplies and support to teachers, along with the training, tools, and workspace they need to engage students in vital hands-on learning. The result is a community where waste is reduced, the burden on teachers is lessened, and creativity and ingenuity thrive in the classroom.

Activities or mission (Part I)

The Welman Project exists to uplift the community at the intersection of imagination, education, and the environment. We provide free supplies and support to teachers through creative reuse of business waste.

  • With our educator resource program, we're tackling two big issues in our community - waste output generated by businesses and lack of resources in our schools - with one innovative solution: creative reuse. We collect surplus materials from companies and donate those items to classrooms, working one-on-one with teachers to provide free, curriculum-enhancing repurpose alternatives to purchasing new supplies. Providing free materials for their classroom provides immediate relief to teachers, giving them meaningful community support and significant cost savings to be able to stay on the job, and enabling them to focus on student outcomes rather than struggling to get the supplies they need. The teachers we serve overwhelmingly report feeling less stressed and better prepared to address their student's needs, both because of the ideas and materials received and the encouragement of coming to a place where they feel supported by the community. By enabling educators to utilize readily-available resources from the community rather than relying on the purchase of expensive educational materials, we're removing the district red tape and financial disparities that contribute to teacher burnout and inequity across our schools, leading to better outcomes for students long-term. In 2024, we kept 281 dumpsters worth of material from going to the landfill, served 6,588 educators, and distributed $2.7 million worth of supplies to schools.

    Expenses $2,984,299 · Revenue $2,707,179

  • Our creative reuse education program helps teachers bring hands-on, open-ended learning to the classroom, building complex problem-solving and critical thinking skills by challenging students to experiment, design, and see things in a different way. With free access to power tools, crafting equipment, and design software, teachers can create an engaging learning environment and hands-on, creative projects for their students without budget limitations standing in their way. Teachers from across districts, grade levels, and subjects are able to collaborate and exchange ideas, and retired teacher and craftsman volunteers provide inspiration and guidance during our open makerspace hours. In our professional development workshops, we provide teachers with training and materials for unique projects, along with guidance on utilizing creative reuse to make their daily STEAM curriculum more hands-on without having to spend money on supplies. In 2024, 2,375 individuals engaged in a creative reuse class, workshop, or event, and over 700 students participated in our annual recycled art exhibit, practicing teamwork and creativity while learning about waste reduction.

    Expenses $188,762 · Revenue $62,693

  • Through our creative reuse community marketplace, we're reducing waste and making artistic pursuits more accessible by selling affordable secondhand arts and crafts materials both in person and online. In our creative reuse storefront, the Curiosity Shop, artists and makers can find the supplies they need along with unique materials they can't get elsewhere, and kids are able to dream beyond the generic craft kit with our fill-a-bag section of unusual treasures to create with. The community is also able to support local artists in our consignment section, which features art and handmade goods using repurposed materials. We served over 2,847 families and individuals through this program in 2024. We also educate the public about the importance of reducing waste and how they can creatively reuse common materials through presentations to groups and booths at community events, reaching thousands more individuals.

    Expenses $127,209 · Revenue $113,066

As filed on the 2024 return.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Ximena Antunez de Mayolo

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Randall Ford

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Karen Fraser

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Cornell Hall

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Nicole Masole

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Ernesto Moran

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Katherine Morris

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Alicia Newburn

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Nan Parrott

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Benjamin Robertson

    President Elect

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Misty Smethers

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $3,439,539
    Expenses
    $3,374,852
    Contributions
    $3,267,169
    Grants paid
    $2,662,017
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $439,069
    Expenses
    $510,584
    Contributions
    $265,604
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $474,551
    Expenses
    $407,140
    Contributions
    $377,442
    Grants paid
    $0

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $380,822
    Expenses
    $326,787
    Assets (EOY)
    $148,190

  • 2020 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $189,635
    Expenses
    $169,391
    Assets (EOY)
    $80,834

  • 2019 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $132,152
    Expenses
    $169,936
    Assets (EOY)
    $65,500

  • 2018 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $130,286
    Expenses
    $55,072
    Assets (EOY)
    $99,995

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.

Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2017

Tax period
1 January 2017 to 31 December 2017
Principal officer
Taylor Willis
Mailing address
2232 Irwin StFort Worth TX 76110
Website
thewelmanproject.org

As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 26 October 2026. The IRS publishes only each organization's most recent postcard, so earlier years are not shown. A 990-N carries no financial detail. The postcard also gives the principal officer's address, which is not shown here.

Grants made

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Grants received

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 29 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.