Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
MAMA PROJECT INC
MAMA PROJECT INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,156,297 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($984,850). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 99% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.5M
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $1.2M
- Net assets
- $18k
What Mama Project Inc does
Mission
Mama project is a network for health and wholeness focused on nutrition, clean water, hygiene and education in kenya, haiti, tanzania, and south sudan. Mama distributes micronutrients, medicines and water filtration systems in areas of most need.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Mama kenya - nairobi, kenyaassessment and treatment of malnourished children in kibera and mukuru slums. We undertake community development and empowerment through nutritional and health education for mothers. The kenya team has a clean water project for filtration, which now exists in 9 schools and benefits 20,000 to 25,000 children. Additionally, 4,000 new families received water filtration which equates to approximately 40,000 individuals. The program also provided 2,400 girls with sanitary kits.
$1,109,150 spentof which $1,107,115 as grants74% of program spendingService teams - south sudanthe organization offers healthcare and nutritional education and support through mission teams. We provided 5,636 individuals with nutritional support.
$319,688 spentof which $317,267 as grants21% of program spendingService teams - haitithe organization offers healthcare and nutritional education and support through mission teams. 37 students received scholarship funds.
$23,445 spentof which $23,345 as grants2% of program spendingGeneral program management expeneses for mama project.
$54,623 spentof which $14,168 as grants4% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,506,906.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2022 to 2023, from $84k to $197k (+133%).
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 5% · 2022 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of MAMA PROJECT INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (90% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 6 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $1k → $27k.
5 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 99% 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 MAMA 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
MAMA PROJECT INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 85% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
99% 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 MAMA PROJECT INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 85% · 2021 94% · 2022 86% · 2023 92% — 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
40% of MAMA PROJECT INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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
99% of MAMA PROJECT INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $14k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Pennsylvania, across 3 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.1M 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
MAMA PROJECT INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 1,211 religion nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,211 religion nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like MAMA 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 Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
93% 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 MAMA 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 MAMA PROJECT INC?
- MAMA PROJECT INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,156,297 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($984,850). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 99% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does MAMA PROJECT INC have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $1,156,297 in grants to MAMA PROJECT INC, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MAMA PROJECT INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $984,850 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MAMA PROJECT INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 8 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