Massachusetts · Nonprofit
MAKANDA PROJECT ORGANIZATION INC
MAKANDA PROJECT ORGANIZATION INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $37,396 to it, the largest being ARTS & BUSINESS COUNCIL OF GREATER BOSTON INC ($11,396). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $66k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $37k
- Net assets
- $9k
What Makanda Project Organization Inc does
Mission
To advance public appreciation for music.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Free concert series in Nubian Square and John Eliot Square, Roxbury (8 events).
$34,094 spent53% of program spendingFree concerts in other accessible spaces in low-income Boston neighborhoods (5 events).
$14,742 spent23% of program spendingConcerts outside the Boston area (3 events).
$15,150 spent24% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $63,986.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2024, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2024, 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 2024 to 2025, from $8k to $9k (+5%).
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.
77% of MAKANDA PROJECT ORGANIZATION INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income fell $14k → $6k.
From the IRS filings of MAKANDA PROJECT ORGANIZATION 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
MAKANDA PROJECT ORGANIZATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 30% of grant income and the top three 81%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
30% 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 MAKANDA PROJECT ORGANIZATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 79% · 2023 55% — 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
73% of MAKANDA PROJECT ORGANIZATION 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. 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
MAKANDA PROJECT ORGANIZATION INC's revenue fell 16% between 2024 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Government funding MAKANDA PROJECT ORGANIZATION INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $16k on record.
- (PP) STATE AID/POL SUB$16k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like MAKANDA PROJECT ORGANIZATION 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 Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MAKANDA PROJECT ORGANIZATION 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 MAKANDA PROJECT ORGANIZATION INC?
- MAKANDA PROJECT ORGANIZATION INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $37,396 to it, the largest being ARTS & BUSINESS COUNCIL OF GREATER BOSTON INC ($11,396). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MAKANDA PROJECT ORGANIZATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $37,396 in grants to MAKANDA PROJECT ORGANIZATION INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MAKANDA PROJECT ORGANIZATION INC?
- ARTS & BUSINESS COUNCIL OF GREATER BOSTON INC is the largest funder on record, with $11,396 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MAKANDA PROJECT ORGANIZATION 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.
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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 2024–2025), and the filings of 5 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