New York · Nonprofit
PROJECT GUARDIANSHIP INC
PROJECT GUARDIANSHIP INC (New York) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,420,757 to it, the largest being Vera Institute of Justice Inc ($1,043,908). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Van Ameringen Foundation Incshared fundersportfolio match
- Mother Cabrini Health Foundation Incshared fundersportfolio match
- The Clark Foundationshared funders
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.
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 80% · 2021 69% · 2022 72% · 2023 84% · 2024 82%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $615k → $722k.
4 of 19 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 13% 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 GUARDIANSHIP 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 GUARDIANSHIP INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 43% of grant income and the top three 72%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
56% 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 GUARDIANSHIP INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 46% · 2022 30% · 2023 59% — growing more concentrated.
“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
97% of PROJECT GUARDIANSHIP INC's grant income comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $311k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 statesis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 19 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Van Ameringen Foundation Incshared fundersportfolio matchNY · backs 47 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Mother Cabrini Health Foundation Incshared fundersportfolio matchNY · backs 120 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- The Clark Foundationshared fundersNY · backs 38 organizations that share your funders
- Community Service Society of New Yorkportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Finger Lakes Performing Provider System Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The New York Bar Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- New York Foundation for Elder Careportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Hebrew Home for the Aged at Riverdale Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- John H & Ethel G Noble Charitable Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Donald a Pels Charitable Trust Utd 8/18/92 C/O Pkf O'Connor Daviesshared fundersNY · backs 67 organizations that share your funders
- Lily Auchincloss Foundation Incshared fundersNY · backs 86 organizations that share your funders
- Robin Hood Foundationshared fundersNY · backs 151 organizations that share your funders
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like PROJECT GUARDIANSHIP INC
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
86% 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
Part of a family of 3 related entities
- Activating Change Inc · exempt
- Vera Action Inc · exempt
- Vera Institute of Justice Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PROJECT GUARDIANSHIP 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds PROJECT GUARDIANSHIP INC?
- PROJECT GUARDIANSHIP INC (New York) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,420,757 to it, the largest being Vera Institute of Justice Inc ($1,043,908). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PROJECT GUARDIANSHIP INC have?
- IRS filings report 19 organizations giving $2,420,757 in grants to PROJECT GUARDIANSHIP INC, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PROJECT GUARDIANSHIP INC?
- Vera Institute of Justice Inc is the largest funder on record, with $1,043,908 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PROJECT GUARDIANSHIP INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 19funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing