Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
PROJECT GAIA INC
PROJECT GAIA INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $48,167 to it, the largest being UNITED NATIONS FOUNDATION INC ($48,025). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $50k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $48k
- Net assets
- $91k
What Project Gaia Inc does
Mission
To raise and distribute funds for projects that are designed to promote alcohol fuels and appropriate alcohol appliances for general use in developing countries.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Grants to ethiopian and nigerian affiliates for national activities relating to the popularization of alcohol stoves and alcohol (ethanol and methanol) fuel. In ethiopia, support of the work in and provision of stoves and fuel to the refugee camps, specifically the jijiga, assosa, and gambella refugee camps. Technical and program support to the gaia association in its policy development and planning for alcohol fuel scaleup in ethiopia. Technical and program support to unido for its program in tanzania. Technical and program support to the world bank for its program in madagascar. Support to the commercial collaborator in haiti and ethiopia. Support two interest groups in various african countries to explore opportunities in ethanol fuel production and ethanol fuel market creation for cookstove fuel. Technical consulting with the niti aayog (indian national planning committee) for a methanol stove program in india. Work on developing an alcohol stove carbon finance program in ethiopia and djibouti. Technical assistance to qualifying countries and stakeholders who contact project gaia to inquire about our model for the development of alcohol fuels for cooking. Communications with…
$26,145 spentof which $7,657 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $26,145.
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 $52k to $194k (+273%).
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.
28% of PROJECT GAIA INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue 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. 4 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $33k → $27.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 GAIA 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 GAIA INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 100% 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 GAIA INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 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
PROJECT GAIA INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Pennsylvania, across 1 state in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $142 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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 GAIA INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,933 international nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,933 international nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like PROJECT GAIA 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
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
58%
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 PROJECT GAIA 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 GAIA INC?
- PROJECT GAIA INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $48,167 to it, the largest being UNITED NATIONS FOUNDATION INC ($48,025). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PROJECT GAIA INC have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $48,167 in grants to PROJECT GAIA INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PROJECT GAIA INC?
- UNITED NATIONS FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $48,025 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PROJECT GAIA 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), 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