Massachusetts · Nonprofit
BOSTON UJIMA PROJECT INC
BOSTON UJIMA PROJECT INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,859,700 to it, the largest being BARR FOUNDATION ($1,200,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
BOSTON UJIMA PROJECT INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,812 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,812 community improvement nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- The Hyams Foundation Incshared fundersportfolio match
- The New Commonwealth Racial Equity and Social Justice Fund Inclocalportfolio match
- The Access Strategies Fundportfolio match
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2021: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $15k → $30k.
6 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 32% 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 BOSTON UJIMA 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
BOSTON UJIMA PROJECT INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 42% of grant income and the top three 72%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
36% 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 BOSTON UJIMA PROJECT INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 83% — 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.
Where its funders are
65% of BOSTON UJIMA PROJECT INC's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $914k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 statesis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 15 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- The Hyams Foundation Incshared fundersportfolio matchMA · backs 58 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- The New Commonwealth Racial Equity and Social Justice Fund Inclocalportfolio matchMA · funds 79 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- The Access Strategies Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Krupp Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Popplestone Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Oristaglio Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Center for Economic Democracy Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Herman and Frieda L Miller Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Devonshire Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Yawkey Foundation IIshared fundersMA · backs 60 organizations that share your funders
- The Loring Wolcott & Coolidge Charitable Trust-Ishared fundersMA · backs 64 organizations that share your funders
- The Klarman Family Foundationshared fundersMA · backs 75 organizations that share your funders
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like BOSTON UJIMA PROJECT INC
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
74% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BOSTON UJIMA PROJECT INC: 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 BOSTON UJIMA PROJECT INC?
- BOSTON UJIMA PROJECT INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,859,700 to it, the largest being BARR FOUNDATION ($1,200,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BOSTON UJIMA PROJECT INC have?
- IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $2,859,700 in grants to BOSTON UJIMA PROJECT INC.
- Who is the largest funder of BOSTON UJIMA PROJECT INC?
- BARR FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,200,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BOSTON UJIMA PROJECT INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2025–2025), and the filings of 15funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing