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PROJECT RESTORE US

PROJECT RESTORE US (Massachusetts) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $212,000 to it, the largest being Boston Charitable Trust Fund City of Boston Trust Office ($200,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$9k
Funders on record
3
Grants received
$212k
Net assets
$134k
1/3 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year
01What it does

What Project Restore US does

Mission

To bring affordable, nutritious, and culturally relevant staple foods to food insecure greater in boston area communities.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. The provision of culturally appropriate food items and food staples for impoverished communities and food deserts and to conduct any other activiteis and to perform any and all acts wihch may be necessary, useful, suitable, or proper for the furtherance, accomplishment or attainment of any of the foregoing activities.

    $7,962 spentof which $2,600 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $7,962.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 = 20212021 Revenue 100 ($37k) Expenses 100 ($17k) Net assets 100 ($20k)2022 Revenue 491 ($180k) Expenses 235 ($40k) Net assets 812 ($160k)2023 Revenue 217 ($80k) Expenses 611 ($104k) Net assets 688 ($136k)2024 Revenue 26 ($9k) Expenses 65 ($11k) Net assets 680 ($134k)
2021202220232024
Revenue (26)Expenses (65)Net assets (680)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 $35k to $161k (+355%).

$35k
$161k
$136k
$135k
2021202220232024
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.

2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of PROJECT RESTORE US’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,498 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.

$20k
’21
$140k
’22
−$24k
’23
−$2k
’24
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $1k → $2k.

From the IRS filings of PROJECT RESTORE US’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 RESTORE US leans on a few funders — its largest provides 94% 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

94%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 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

95% of PROJECT RESTORE US's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.

NY
MA

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

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

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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 RESTORE US's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.

Operating margin−17% · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−36% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,851 human services nonprofits under $100k, FY2024

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05Profile & governance

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

Public support

0%

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

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PROJECT RESTORE US: 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 RESTORE US?
PROJECT RESTORE US (Massachusetts) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $212,000 to it, the largest being Boston Charitable Trust Fund City of Boston Trust Office ($200,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does PROJECT RESTORE US have?
IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $212,000 in grants to PROJECT RESTORE US, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of PROJECT RESTORE US?
Boston Charitable Trust Fund City of Boston Trust Office is the largest funder on record, with $200,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like PROJECT RESTORE US 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 2021–2024), and the filings of 3 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