Ohio · Nonprofit
Project Ujima Inc
Project Ujima Inc (Ohio) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $440,374 to it, the largest being CareSource Ohio Inc ($205,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2023
- $362k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $440k
- Net assets
- $31k
What Project Ujima Inc does
Mission
Project Ujima is a grassroots community engagement organization that teaches and facilitates Circle processes that enable diverse citizens to come together, discuss issues of shared concern, develop relation-
As stated on its FY2023 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2023 return the organization reported starting a significant new program.
Zalika home is open 32 hours a week & offers a place for exhausted new moms to rest during the day, cook a meal in the kitchen, wash clothes, take a shower, or read and play with their child in the safer sleep nursery nook. In addition to respite and peer support, the home also provides circle programming, including employment and career support and partnershps, access to the internet, assistance with resumes and job application, cooking demonstrations, safer sleep demonstration, vegetable garden in partnership with Community Action, breastfeeding support, postpartum care, and mental health support. The program distributed 44,000 diapers,61,029 wipes,7584 wipes & 20 Toiletry kits. Adopted 5 families for holidays,offered 25 workshops & 100 layettes.
$68,421 spentof which $68,421 as grants36% of program spendingInfant Mortality Reduction(IMR)- Ohio Dept.of Medicaid for Centering Project Ujima will continue to partner Summa Health and Minority Behavorial Health Group to: 1)Provide Centering Pregancy to expectant mothers in our target population; 2) Provide Centering Parenting to new mothers in the target population through their babies first birth- day; 3)Expand Centering Pregancy and Centering Parenting to serv new and expecting mothers in the target population. Parenting Circles include topics such as infant feeding, soothing and comfort, immunizations, development of family adjustment, shaken baby syndrome, childproofing and home safety, maternal stress and depression, and childcare choices and challenges.
$76,579 spentof which $76,579 as grants40% of program spendingQueens Vi1llage is a supportive community of powerful Black women who come together to relax, repower and take care of themselves and each other. Mission is to reduce Black women's stress by creating space for them to relax, rest and repower.Create spaces and content for and by Black women that celebrate and amplify their voices. Invest in Black women's leadership, social capital and power through community advisory boards. Promote economic and professional opportunities for Black women to succeed and flourish. Engage with social, political, and medical communities to support equity initiatives and reduce implicit bias that affects Black women.
$44,625 spentof which $44,625 as grants24% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $189,625.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2021 to 2022, from $52k to $-946 (−102%).
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: 2022 68% · 2023 81%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of Project Ujima Inc’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 4 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
Edward Smith
Board President
As listed on its FY2023 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $14k → $8k.
2 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 17% 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 Ujima Inc’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 Ujima Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 47% of grant income and the top three 80%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
86% 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 Ujima Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 67% · 2020 73% · 2021 56% · 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
89% of Project Ujima Inc's grant income comes from Ohio funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $77k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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 Ujima Inc runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 21,056 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,056 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2023
Organizations like Project Ujima 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 Ohio
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
96% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Project Ujima Inc?
- Project Ujima Inc (Ohio) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $440,374 to it, the largest being CareSource Ohio Inc ($205,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Project Ujima Inc have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $440,374 in grants to Project Ujima Inc, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Project Ujima Inc?
- CareSource Ohio Inc is the largest funder on record, with $205,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Project Ujima Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. 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 2020–2023), and the filings of 7 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