Massachusetts · Nonprofit
PROJECT HOPE BOSTON INC
PROJECT HOPE BOSTON INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 46 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,084,890 to it, the largest being United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc ($1,759,269). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $9.8M
- Funders on record
- 46
- Grants received
- $7.1M
- Net assets
- $9.7M
What Project Hope Boston Inc does
Mission
Project hope is a multi service agency that moves families up and out of poverty.project hope works in partnership with women and families in the dorchester and roxbury neighborhoods of boston on their journeys up and out of poverty. We do this by being a catalyst for change in the lives of families, developing and providing programs and family support solutions to alleviate poverty and homelessness.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Family childcare: in 1988, project hope launched the family childcare business enterprise, an innovative venture to support home-based childcare providers. Known today as the family childcare network (fcc). This program provides technical support, professional training, and support to women to help them establish home-based daycares that focus on quality care and education. Many of our providers are multi-lingual and provide much needed bilingual/bicultural childcare to immigrant and non-immigrant families alike. Fcc providers are licensed with the department of early education and care. We offer opportunities to participate in college level child development courses and a range of educational and professional development opportunities on an ongoing basis. These include trauma-informed care, safety, child development.
$3,106,604 spent$25,837 earned by the program58% of program spendingShelter: project hope's family shelter, founded in 1981, was one of the first emergency homeless shelters for families in the state of massachusetts and continues to address the urgent need for emergency transitional housing in our community. We offer a nurturing environment for 11 women and their children at a time. The families we partner with face a number of barriers to housing stability, including long wait lists for public housing, fewer subsidies for market rate housing, rising rents, rising costs for heat, food instability, lack of access to quality childcare, and few slots in job training programs. Each family we serve has a private room and access to a communal kitchen, dining room, living room and children's activity playroom. The shelter stabilizes families through case management and housing search to assist them in finding safe and affordable housing. Families are also connected to project hope's workforce and education programming. The shelter is a model for a respectful and empowering approach that prioritizes helping women gain confidence and prevail against tremendous odds.
$1,462,188 spent27% of program spendingHousing services: the original mission of project hope's housing services department was to find affordable housing for families living in our family shelter. While we continue that work today, our services have expanded to support families experiencing housing instability through eviction prevention and housing search/placement. Our team provides housing counseling, eviction prevention, landlord negotiation, housing assistance, budgeting advice, and emergency rental funds. We also have members of our team who work at two department of transitional assistance offices and meet with homeless or at-risk families to provide support and alternatives to shelter.
$236,466 spent4% of program spendingAdult education and employer partners: in 1990, project hope established the adult education services program to meet the educational needs of low-income and homeless women. In 1996, the workforce development department was founded to assist low-income residents, particularly single mothers, gain workforce skills and access career opportunities. After offering these two services as standalone programs, we combined them into the workforce and education department in 2019 to better serve our families. This ensures that no matter their entry point into project hope, all participants will benefits from a career pathway focus that will enable them to develop the education, training, and skill development necessary to obtain, retain, and improve employment. Workforce and education offer low-income women, primarily from roxbury and north dorchester, basic education, and english learning classes, as well as a range of job training programs for employement skills, career exploration, and expertise specific to administrative jobs in healthcare. We leverage employer partnerships to help every program graduate secure a job or internship and we provide continued support throughout their first…
$531,538 spent10% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $5,336,796.
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 2024 to 2025, from $8.1M to $10M (+29%).
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: 2017 56% · 2018 58% · 2019 56% · 2021 74% · 2022 81% · 2023 58% · 2024 80% · 2025 53%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of PROJECT HOPE BOSTON INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (81% 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.
Board chair
Maureen Pompeo
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 12 funders to 21 funders, grant income rose $755k → $1.0M.
11 of 46 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 43% 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 HOPE BOSTON INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 46 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 HOPE BOSTON INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% 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
85% 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 HOPE BOSTON INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 18% · 2018 24% · 2019 32% · 2020 36% · 2021 30% · 2022 24% · 2023 17% — 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.
How long its funders stay
48% of PROJECT HOPE BOSTON INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 52% give in more than one year at all.
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
82% of PROJECT HOPE BOSTON INC's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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 HOPE BOSTON INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 6,891 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,891 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding PROJECT HOPE BOSTON INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $4.7M on record.
- (MM) PURCHASED CLIENT/PROGRAM SVCS$3.0M
- (PP) STATE AID/POL SUB$1.7M
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like PROJECT HOPE 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.
Where the money goes
73% 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
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Questions and answers
- Who funds PROJECT HOPE BOSTON INC?
- PROJECT HOPE BOSTON INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 46 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,084,890 to it, the largest being United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc ($1,759,269). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PROJECT HOPE BOSTON INC have?
- IRS filings report 46 organizations giving $7,084,890 in grants to PROJECT HOPE BOSTON INC, 24 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PROJECT HOPE BOSTON INC?
- United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc is the largest funder on record, with $1,759,269 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PROJECT HOPE 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 46 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