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PROJECT HOME AGAIN

PROJECT HOME AGAIN (Massachusetts) receives grants from 40 organizations whose IRS filings report $657,415 to it, the largest being CUMMINGS FOUNDATION GRANTS INC (FKA ONEWORLD BOSTON INC) ($135,000). 29 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$419k
Funders on record
40
Grants received
$657k
Net assets
$324k
29/40 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 49%
01What it does

What Project Home Again does

Mission

Project Home Again, Inc. provides low income families with new and recycled household goods, furnishings, and appliances necessary to live in dignity and comfort.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Project Home Again Inc. has developed relationships with social services agencies in northeastern Massachusetts to ensure that new and gently used items go to those who need them most.

    $332,677 spentof which $183,656 as grants
    100% of program spending
  2. Other program services, not described on the e-filed return.

    $0 spent
    0% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $332,677.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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.

100 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($92k) Expenses 100 ($68k) Net assets 100 ($83k)2019 Revenue 120 ($110k) Expenses 141 ($96k) Net assets 117 ($97k)2020 Revenue 158 ($145k) Expenses 169 ($115k) Net assets 153 ($127k)2021 Revenue 469 ($430k) Expenses 518 ($353k) Net assets 246 ($203k)2022 Revenue 333 ($305k) Expenses 428 ($292k) Net assets 262 ($217k)2023 Revenue 482 ($442k) Expenses 484 ($330k) Net assets 397 ($329k)2024 Revenue 351 ($322k) Expenses 486 ($331k) Net assets 386 ($320k)2025 Revenue 456 ($419k) Expenses 607 ($414k) Net assets 392 ($324k)
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Revenue (456)Expenses (607)Net assets (392)Peer revenue range

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 $211k to $345k (+64%).

$83k
$97k
$127k
$211k
$345k
$455k
$432k
$436k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of PROJECT HOME AGAIN’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (84% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 3,561 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$24k
’18
$14k
’19
$30k
’20
$77k
’21
$14k
’22
$112k
’23
−$9k
’24
$5k
’25
8.9
months of
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

Ruth Medina

Executive Director

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

20212022202320242025
Listed710111211
Joined·+4+1+3+0
No longer listed·1021
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 23 funders, grant income rose $10k → $139k.

10 of 40 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 26% 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 HOME AGAIN’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 40 funders by total. 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 HOME AGAIN has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left

26% 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 HOME AGAIN.

21%
largest funder
37%
top three
~14
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 91% · 2020 35% · 2021 28% · 2022 22% · 2023 18% — 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

56% of PROJECT HOME AGAIN's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 73% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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

84% of PROJECT HOME AGAIN's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.

NY
MA
CT
AZ
NC
TX
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Massachusetts out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $173k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

PROJECT HOME AGAIN has grown faster than three-quarters of the 1,934 public benefit nonprofits its size.

Operating margin1% · below the median
Months of reserve8.9mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)24% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,934 public benefit nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like PROJECT HOME AGAIN

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

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

80% of spending goes to programs.

Program 80%Management 11%Fundraising 8%

Governance

10
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

95%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MA

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Questions and answers

Who funds PROJECT HOME AGAIN?
PROJECT HOME AGAIN (Massachusetts) receives grants from 40 organizations whose IRS filings report $657,415 to it, the largest being CUMMINGS FOUNDATION GRANTS INC (FKA ONEWORLD BOSTON INC) ($135,000). 29 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does PROJECT HOME AGAIN have?
IRS filings report 40 organizations giving $657,415 in grants to PROJECT HOME AGAIN, 29 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of PROJECT HOME AGAIN?
CUMMINGS FOUNDATION GRANTS INC (FKA ONEWORLD BOSTON INC) is the largest funder on record, with $135,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like PROJECT HOME AGAIN 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 FY2025 (financials across 2018–2025), and the filings of 40 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