New York · Nonprofit
SHIFT PROJECT LTD
SHIFT PROJECT LTD (New York) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,736,800 to it, the largest being OPEN SOCIETY INSTITUTE ($390,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.1M
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $1.7M
- Net assets
- $2.8M
What Shift Project Ltd does
Mission
At Shift, we have one purpose: to transform how business gets done in order to ensure respect for peoples lives and dignity. We believe that the best way to advance our mission is by working directly with Businesses to help shape their practices, culture and behavior and by working with Governments, Financial Institutions, civil society and other market actors to embed the right requirements and incentives into the frameworks within which business operates. Our work is based on the international standard of the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Standards - under this program, shift advises intergovernmental organizations,reporting and other standard-setters, government ministries and regulatory agencieson how to integrate the ungps into the standards they set that drive businessbehavior.
$1,559,306 spent$1,780,220 earned by the program47% of program spendingBusiness engagement through this program, shift works with leading global companies at both strategic and operational levels, helping them build the vision, systems and capacity they need to implement the ungps. We also work with industry associations and multistakeholder initiatives that support implementation of the ungps.
$1,152,096 spent$1,355,729 earned by the program35% of program spendingFinancial institutions - through this program, shift works with financial institutions to understand and address human rights challenges and develop leading practices aligned with the ungps.
$487,464 spent$601,105 earned by the program15% of program spendingScale through education - through this program, shift builds the capacity of a larger cohort of companies to understand and embed the expectations of the un guiding principles across their organizations.
$133,527 spent$143,063 earned by the program4% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,332,393.
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 2020 to 2021, from $2.1M to $2.9M (+37%).
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 39% · 2018 34% · 2019 34% · 2020 20% · 2021 13% · 2022 11% · 2023 13% · 2024 4% · 2025 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
50% of SHIFT PROJECT LTD’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (97% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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.
Board chair
Prince Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $50k → $360k.
2 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 32% 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 SHIFT PROJECT LTD’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
SHIFT PROJECT LTD 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
49% 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 SHIFT PROJECT LTD.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 98% · 2023 55% — 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.
How long its funders stay
25% of SHIFT PROJECT LTD's funders are still giving 1 year after their first grant; 44% 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
59% of SHIFT PROJECT LTD's grant income comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $555k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
SHIFT PROJECT LTD holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 718 international nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 718 international nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like SHIFT PROJECT LTD
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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
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 SHIFT PROJECT LTD: 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 SHIFT PROJECT LTD?
- SHIFT PROJECT LTD (New York) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,736,800 to it, the largest being OPEN SOCIETY INSTITUTE ($390,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SHIFT PROJECT LTD have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $1,736,800 in grants to SHIFT PROJECT LTD, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SHIFT PROJECT LTD?
- OPEN SOCIETY INSTITUTE is the largest funder on record, with $390,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SHIFT PROJECT LTD find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 9 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