California · Nonprofit
PROJECT TF
PROJECT TF (California) receives grants from 48 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,787,726 to it, the largest being JOHN S AND JAMES L KNIGHT FOUNDATION ($3,080,000). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $211k
- Funders on record
- 48
- Grants received
- $14M
- Net assets
- $1.6M
What Project Tf does
Mission
To activate, connect, and mobilize the largest racial equity community in tech to dismantle the structural barriers that prevent the full participation and leadership of black and latinx people in the innovation economy.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Program development - the fellows program is an intensive career accelerator for black and latinx college and graduate-level computer science students. For nine weeks between june and august, they intern at a top technology company and engage in racial equity advocacy work. They participate in a series of learning experiences designed to give them the tools and resources they need to navigate the tech industry, build a lasting career, and advocate for themselves and their community. Program participants receive socio-emotional, professional, and management development through in-person workshops, mentorship and coaching, and online engagement. In this program, the organization builds community, makes space to commiserate, and most importantly, finds tactical solutions to the professional and cultural roadblocks black and latinx technologists face in the workplace. The organization's goal is to ensure that its communities are able to not only survive but thrive in the workplace.
$841,271 spent$82 earned by the program57% of program spendingCompany cultural transformation - company culture transformation offers company facing services grounded in sound change management processes aimed at producing racially equitable and inclusive company cultures within the tech and innovation industries. This includes work such as: racial equity and inclusion transformation trainings, company coaching, and racial equity and inclusion advising and consulting.
$327,751 spent22% of program spendingCommunity mobilization department - the organization's community is full of people actively working on racial equity. While the organization interacts and engages with the community, they are stewarded by their wisdom, driven by their personal experience, active in their regional and organizational spheres, and supported by their network.
$297,050 spent20% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,466,072.
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 2022 to 2023, from $8.8M to $6.0M (−33%).
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 5% · 2021 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
67% of PROJECT TF’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 9 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
Mimi Fox Melton
CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 10 funders to 11 funders, grant income fell $1.9M → $1.4M.
16 of 48 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 36% 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 TF’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 48 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 TF has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 22% 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
44% 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 TF.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 43% · 2018 62% · 2019 61% · 2020 56% · 2021 25% · 2022 24% · 2023 42% — 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
29% of PROJECT TF's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 40% 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
PROJECT TF draws 64% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 8 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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 TF is better cushioned than half of the 17,450 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,450 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like PROJECT TF
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
56% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
60%
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 TF: 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 TF?
- PROJECT TF (California) receives grants from 48 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,787,726 to it, the largest being JOHN S AND JAMES L KNIGHT FOUNDATION ($3,080,000). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PROJECT TF have?
- IRS filings report 48 organizations giving $13,787,726 in grants to PROJECT TF, 19 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PROJECT TF?
- JOHN S AND JAMES L KNIGHT FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $3,080,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PROJECT TF find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 48 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing