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SIDE PROJECT INC

SIDE PROJECT INC (Florida) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $870,407 to it, the largest being THE PITTSBURGH FOUNDATION ($192,500). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$147k
Funders on record
15
Grants received
$870k
Net assets
$150k
5/15 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 62%
01What it does

What Side Project Inc does

Mission

To promote social justice and social change by incubating and developing grassroots projects. To promote social justice and social change by incubating and developing grassroots projects. We are a nonprofit incubator and social change accelerator. We believe in the power of grassroots community organizations and work with new projects and initiatives to help them determine their best path forward. Side project oversees new and innovative projects focused on progressive social change.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. To promote social justice and social change by incubating and developing grassroots projects. We are a nonprofit incubator and social change accelerator. We believe in the power of grassroots community organizations and work with new projects and initiatives to help them determine their best path forward. Side Project oversees new and innovative projects focused on progressive social change. In 2022, we worked alongside several initiatives focused on creating more inclusive and welcoming communities, including those who were implementing new programs, collaborating across sectors on issues, and testing out new approaches to social change. Our projects span many fields in the nonprofit sector and have strong, capable leadership with a variety of small to large operations. Some of our projects are as follows

    $120,036 spentof which $33,424 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $120,036.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($386k) Expenses 100 ($277k) Net assets 100 ($190k)2018 Revenue 47 ($180k) Expenses 102 ($283k) Net assets 46 ($88k)2019 Revenue 79 ($306k) Expenses 77 ($212k) Net assets 95 ($181k)2020 Revenue 142 ($548k) Expenses 153 ($423k) Net assets 161 ($306k)2021 Revenue 100 ($388k) Expenses 151 ($419k) Net assets 144 ($275k)2022 Revenue 58 ($226k) Expenses 145 ($402k) Net assets 52 ($99k)2023 Revenue 48 ($184k) Expenses 56 ($156k) Net assets 66 ($126k)2024 Revenue 38 ($147k) Expenses 44 ($123k) Net assets 79 ($150k)
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Revenue (38)Expenses (44)Net assets (79)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 $298k to $104k (−65%).

$195k
$89k
$185k
$328k
$298k
$104k
$133k
$156k
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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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

73% of SIDE PROJECT INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (94% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 2,778 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$109k
’17
−$102k
’18
$93k
’19
$125k
’20
−$31k
’21
−$176k
’22
$27k
’23
$24k
’24
3.1
months of
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

Jeffrey Fromknecht

CEO & Managing Attorney

Board chair

Nicholas Koch

Current Chairperson, Board of Directors

As listed on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.

20172019202020212022
Listed99121211
Joined··+4+1+1
No longer listed··112
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 4 funders to 3 funders, grant income fell $240k → $33k.

4 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 42% 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 SIDE PROJECT 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

SIDE PROJECT INC 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

76% 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 SIDE PROJECT INC.

22%
largest funder
54%
top three
~8
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 42% · 2018 68% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 47% · 2022 51% · 2023 61% — growing more concentrated.

“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 SIDE PROJECT INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 33% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

SIDE PROJECT INC draws 57% of its grant income from funders outside Florida, across 7 states in all.

ID
NY
MA
OR
PA
DE
FL

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

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’21
’22
’23
Florida out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $365k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

SIDE PROJECT INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 2,538 crime & legal nonprofits its size.

Operating margin16% · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−13% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,538 crime & legal nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Government funding SIDE PROJECT INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $879 on record.

State$879
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Top programs
  • REFUNDS - GENERAL $879

Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.

Organizations like SIDE PROJECT 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.

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Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Public support

96%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 3 states

OR
PA
FL

Screen this organization

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Questions and answers

Who funds SIDE PROJECT INC?
SIDE PROJECT INC (Florida) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $870,407 to it, the largest being THE PITTSBURGH FOUNDATION ($192,500). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does SIDE PROJECT INC have?
IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $870,407 in grants to SIDE PROJECT INC, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of SIDE PROJECT INC?
THE PITTSBURGH FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $192,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SIDE PROJECT INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Florida. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 15 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