Massachusetts · Nonprofit
PROJECT DO SOMETHING BOSTON INC
PROJECT DO SOMETHING BOSTON INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $18,386 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($18,197). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2022
- $16k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $18k
- Net assets
- $806
What Project Do Something Boston Inc does
Mission
Provide goods to homeless persons in Boston. This includes food, clothing, seasonal weather gear. Support homeless persons transition into housing with home goods not provided by other services. Provide emergency shelter during winter storm events.
As stated on its FY2022 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Provide clean clothing to 100 homeless people per event. Held 50 scheduled events between 1/1 and 12/31. Made numerous unscheduled trips to help individuals on an as-needed basis. Networked with other organizations providing support to Boston's homeless population to provide additional clothing for approximately 200 homeless people on a recurring (quarterly) basis and on an as-needed. Clothing includes shirts, pants, socks, and underwear.
$3,618 spent22% of program spendingProvide meals to 100 homeless people each event. Held 50 scheduled events between 1/1 and 12/31. Provided sandwiches, snacks, fruit, and drinks each event. Provided additional snacks / drinks for an additional 20 events in coordination with other network organizations.
$5,570 spent33% of program spendingProvide season weather gear, including hats, gloves, blankets, and jackets for about 100 of Boston's homeless. Conducted 6 scheduled events and provided as-needed support when requested.
$919 spent5% of program spendingProvided 30 people who transitioned into a housing arrangement with needed home goods, such as dishware, silverware, linens, small household appliances, and towels. Each person had received permanent housing through a government or healthcare agency and required basic necessities not covered by other available services. Each person had been identified as chronically homeless and was provided support on a case-by-case basis.
$1,463 spent9% of program spendingToiletry items (deodorant, shampoo, soap, hand sanitizer) for approximately 50 homeless persons on an as-needed basis.
$362 spent2% of program spendingProvide short-term hotel room stays for 20 homeless persons during cold weather events. These people were identified as awaiting permanent housing and were provided a hotel room to stay out of the winter storm events.
$4,875 spent29% of program spending
The 6 programs described on its FY2022 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $16,807.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2021 to 2022, from $2k to $806 (−46%).
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.
100% of PROJECT DO SOMETHING BOSTON INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $33 → $40.
2 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 PROJECT DO SOMETHING BOSTON 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
PROJECT DO SOMETHING BOSTON INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 99% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 PROJECT DO SOMETHING BOSTON INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 99% · 2022 99% · 2023 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
100% of PROJECT DO SOMETHING BOSTON 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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $18k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
PROJECT DO SOMETHING BOSTON INC has grown faster than half of the 14,237 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,237 human services nonprofits under $100k, FY2022
Organizations like PROJECT DO SOMETHING BOSTON 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.
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
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds PROJECT DO SOMETHING BOSTON INC?
- PROJECT DO SOMETHING BOSTON INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $18,386 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($18,197). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does PROJECT DO SOMETHING BOSTON INC have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $18,386 in grants to PROJECT DO SOMETHING BOSTON INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PROJECT DO SOMETHING BOSTON INC?
- NETWORK FOR GOOD is the largest funder on record, with $18,197 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PROJECT DO SOMETHING BOSTON 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 FY2022 (financials across 2021–2022), and the filings of 2 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