New York · Nonprofit
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PROJECT INC
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PROJECT INC (New York) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,911,436 to it, the largest being URBAN JUSTICE CENTER ($773,094). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $6.9M
- Funders on record
- 24
- Grants received
- $3.9M
- Net assets
- $1.6M
What Community Development Project Inc does
Mission
Takeroot justice provides legal, participatory research and policy support to strengthen the work of grassroots and community-based groups in new york city to dismantle racial, economic and social oppression.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Housing rights: takeroot's affordable housing work has preserved more than 10,000 units of affordable housing, achieved millions of dollars' worth of repairs for low-income tenants, and kept thousands of new yorkers in their homes by preventing eviction and displacement. Takeroot's housing rights team provides legal support to neighborhood groups across the city that are organizing low-income tenants to fight back against gentrification and preserve the affordability of new york's housing stock. Takeroot provides civil legal services to low-income tenants by bringing suit on behalf of tenant associations against landlords attempting to displace low-income tenants by withholding repairs, illegally increasing rents, harassing and intimidating tenants. Takeroot's housing rights team also provides legal assistance through community workshops and training, legal clinics and an advice hotline. In coalition with local grassroots organizations, takeroot's housing rights team also works to strengthen tenant protections at the local and state level to ensure housing stability for all new yorkers.
$1,936,104 spent31% of program spendingResource management and coalition coordination: takeroot's resource management team administers and manages the organization's government funding contracts and collects and analyzes data on takeroot's many programs and services. The team also includes professionals who coordinate and manage coalitions of nonprofit organizations engaged in housing, immigration and employment work in new york city.
$996,572 spent16% of program spendingWorkers rights: takeroot's workers' rights practice combats wage theft, workplace exploitation and violations against workers who assert their rights under labor laws. Takeroot partners with worker centers and worker organizing groups to bring lawsuits on behalf of low-wage workers to combat violations such as unpaid minimum wages and overtime, tip theft, discrimination, harassment and retaliation against workers who assert their rights under the labor laws. We also engage in extensive advocacy with the new york and u.s. Departments of labor on behalf of individual workers whose workplace rights have been violated. Takeroot's workers' rights team has developed deep experience in litigating claims for violations of federal and state wage and hour laws, anti-harassment and anti-discrimination laws, anti-trafficking laws and the right to engage in concerted protected activity.
$948,471 spent15% of program spendingImmigrants' rights: takeroot's immigrants' rights team finds innovative ways to use and change laws in order to build power in immigrant communities of color. Takeroot employs the tools of direct representation, community education, and advocacy to advance the rights of low-income immigrants. Takeroot partners with working class immigrant organizing groups to provide their members with comprehensive legal representation in affirmative and removal defense cases. Takeroot aims to protect individuals from detention and deportation, keep families together and build power in immigrant communities. Takeroot provides up-to-date know your rights ("kyr") workshops and materials to help our partners keep their base safe and informed of changes in immigration policy. Takeroot's team is also involved in efforts to support the development of immigrant community defense networks, advocacy to challenge harsh immigration laws and enforcement practices, and promote language access.expenses $ 907,329. Including grants of $ 0. Revenue $ 0equitable neighborhoods: takeroot's equitable neighborhoods practice works with grassroots groups, neighborhood organizations and community coalitions to ensure…
$2,377,836 spent38% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $6,258,983.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2020 to 2021, from $2.3M to $4.3M (+87%).
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 75% · 2021 81% · 2022 87% · 2023 82% · 2024 84% · 2025 90%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PROJECT INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (61% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 7 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.
Board chair
Michele Burger
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2020 and FY2021, and between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $334k → $840k.
9 of 24 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 21% 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 COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT 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
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PROJECT INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 20% 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
61% 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 COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PROJECT INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 55% · 2020 49% · 2021 19% · 2022 41% · 2023 48% — 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
43% of COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PROJECT INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% 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
96% of COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PROJECT INC's grant income comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $830k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PROJECT INC's funding base is broadening — from 6 funders to 10 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,127 community improvement nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT 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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT 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 COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PROJECT INC?
- COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PROJECT INC (New York) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,911,436 to it, the largest being URBAN JUSTICE CENTER ($773,094). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PROJECT INC have?
- IRS filings report 24 organizations giving $3,911,436 in grants to COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PROJECT INC, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PROJECT INC?
- URBAN JUSTICE CENTER is the largest funder on record, with $773,094 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PROJECT INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 24 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