Texas · Nonprofit
Project Sycamore A Nfp Corporation
Project Sycamore A Nfp Corporation (Texas) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $80,156 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($68,525). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 94% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2023
- $273k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $80k
- Net assets
- $25k
What Project Sycamore A Nfp Corporation does
Mission
The mission of Sycamore Trust is to provide a source of information a vehicle for the exchange of views and a collective voice to Notre Dame alumni and others in the Notre Dame family who are concerned about preserving the Catholic identity of the University in order to support the mission statements requirement for a continuing presence of a predominant number of Catholic intellectuals on faculty.
As stated on its FY2023 Form 990.
Programs
The organization conducts opportunities for collective prayer spiritual support and community engagement to strengthen efforts that uphold the Catholic identity of the University of Notre Dame. Throughout the year the organization organizes prayer initiatives devotional activities and mission-focused gatherings for alumni families and friends. These events foster solidarity deepen commitment to the Universitys Catholic mission and build a supportive community around the organizations work.
$115,937 spent52% of program spendingThe organization publishes articles reports and online resources based on its research to inform alumni parents and other concerned Catholics about developments affecting Notre Dames Catholic identity. Through its website and regular communications the organization provides accessible explanations of these issues and offers analysis of their causes and potential remedies helping the public understand how current trends align with or diverge from Catholic teaching.
$57,239 spent25% of program spendingPersonnel systematically monitor University of Notre Dame policies activities and institutional decisions that affect the Universitys Catholic identity. The organization conducts research reviews public records and campus communications and analyzes trends related to secularization. This program forms the factual and analytical foundation for the organizations mission to evaluate and document developments bearing on Notre Dames Catholic mission.
$51,739 spent23% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $224,915.
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 2019 to 2020, from $81k to $108k (+34%).
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.
100% of Project Sycamore A Nfp Corporation’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 6 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.
Chief executive
Timothy Dempsey
Executive director
Board chair
William Dempsey
Chairman
As listed on its FY2023 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $8k → $24k.
3 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 94% 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 Sycamore A Nfp Corporation’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 Sycamore A Nfp Corporation leans on a few funders — its largest provides 85% 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% 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 Sycamore A Nfp Corporation.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 62% · 2022 100% · 2023 72% — 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.
Where its funders are
94% of Project Sycamore A Nfp Corporation's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $5k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Texas, across 2 states.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $75k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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 Sycamore A Nfp Corporation has grown faster than half of the 17,174 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,174 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2023
Organizations like Project Sycamore A Nfp Corporation
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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
77%
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 Sycamore A Nfp Corporation: 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 Sycamore A Nfp Corporation?
- Project Sycamore A Nfp Corporation (Texas) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $80,156 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($68,525). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 94% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Project Sycamore A Nfp Corporation have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $80,156 in grants to Project Sycamore A Nfp Corporation, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Project Sycamore A Nfp Corporation?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $68,525 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Project Sycamore A Nfp Corporation find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 FY2023 (financials across 2017–2023), and the filings of 5 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