Massachusetts · Nonprofit
PROJECT EVIDENT INC
PROJECT EVIDENT INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,567,374 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($3,500,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $11M
- Funders on record
- 21
- Grants received
- $15M
- Net assets
- $9.0M
What Project Evident Inc does
Mission
Project evident provides data analysis, evaluation technical assistance, tools and research for the purpose of improving social and educational outcomes.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
In 2024, project evident reached 220+ organizations through a variety of services and 32,939 individuals through our book, research papers, and learning content on our website. As an outcomes-focused technical service provider, we seek to advance capacity gains, and improvements in practices, policies, and funding for better outcomes. Our satisfaction rates are high. In 2024 our evidence for outcomes program reached 110 nonprofit and philanthropic organizations, the education agency practice reached 114 education agencies and as a new program the outcomesai department developed its program and launch plans. Across all programs we develop content, reports , convenings, conferences, and program design to advance outcomes in education, opportunity and wellbeing. In 2024, project evident provided direct support to 26 nonprofits, school districts, and funders, and reached 210+ organizations through trainings and webinars. In addition, we reached 32,939 individuals through our book, research papers, and website. As an evidence-based partner helping organizations translate data into impact, we are accountable for results, including high net promoter scores (above 70), capacity gains, and…
$5,019,854 spent$1,990,604 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $5,019,854.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 2023 to 2024, from $4.3M to $9.3M (+115%).
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.
81% of PROJECT EVIDENT INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (60% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 3 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.
Chief executive
Kelly Fitzsimmons
Chief executive officer
Board chair
Archie Jones
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 8 funders, grant income rose $553k → $3.8M.
3 of 21 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 37% 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 EVIDENT 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 EVIDENT INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 24% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
46% 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 EVIDENT INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 100% · 2023 31% — 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
PROJECT EVIDENT INC draws 97% of its grant income from funders outside Massachusetts, across 9 states in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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 EVIDENT INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 659 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 659 community improvement nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Organizations like PROJECT EVIDENT 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.
Where the money goes
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PROJECT EVIDENT 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 PROJECT EVIDENT INC?
- PROJECT EVIDENT INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,567,374 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($3,500,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PROJECT EVIDENT INC have?
- IRS filings report 21 organizations giving $14,567,374 in grants to PROJECT EVIDENT INC, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PROJECT EVIDENT INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $3,500,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PROJECT EVIDENT 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 FY2024 (financials across 2022–2024), 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