California · Nonprofit
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS INC
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS INC (California) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,261,729 to it, the largest being THE STRATFORD FOUNDATION ($745,000). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $967k
- Funders on record
- 21
- Grants received
- $2.3M
- Net assets
- $421k
What Community Development Projects Inc does
Mission
The goal of Project Mercy is the improvement of basic living standards and quality of life for impoverished families who live in conditions precarious to their health in the shantytowns of the colonias east of Tijuana, Mexico.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Project Mercy provided materials and constructed 78 houses in 2024. These were wood rame houses with painted plywood exterior built on 16 ft by 20 ft concrete slabs. In addition, Project Mercy provided materials to construct 78 outhouse latrines. These comprise a concrete block contained latrine pit and a wooden outhouse, with ceramic toilets. Donation of food, school supplies and furnishings were also made to the same general community, as well as a small amount of medical aid where needed.
$801,182 spent89% of program spendingProject Mercy oversaw the running of the San Nicholas school for 62 children in the neighborhood of San Nicolas and facilitated events such as Fiestas and Christmas parties. Also included initial expenses for second school being built in Eliyahu region.
$94,295 spent11% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $895,477.
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 2020 to 2021, from $208k to $387k (+86%).
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: 2021 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (38% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 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
David Mason
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $97k → $362k.
9 of 21 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 38% 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 PROJECTS 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 PROJECTS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 33% of grant income and the top three 67%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
55% 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 PROJECTS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 41% · 2018 44% · 2019 34% · 2020 63% · 2021 56% · 2022 60% · 2023 39% — broadly stable.
“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
62% of COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% 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
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS INC draws 56% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 5 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $853k arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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 PROJECTS INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 7,837 housing & shelter nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,837 housing & shelter nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS 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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
92% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS 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 PROJECTS INC?
- COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS INC (California) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,261,729 to it, the largest being THE STRATFORD FOUNDATION ($745,000). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS INC have?
- IRS filings report 21 organizations giving $2,261,729 in grants to COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS INC, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS INC?
- THE STRATFORD FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $745,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 21 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