Ohio · Nonprofit
THE COMMUNITY PROJECT
THE COMMUNITY PROJECT (Ohio) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $173,865 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($155,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 95% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $70k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $174k
- Net assets
- $33k
What The Community Project does
Mission
We are establishing a K-8 model school for 1000 children a community center vegetable gardens and a farm in an economically disadvantaged area of Ethiopia. All structures are community-built with support from Engineers and Architects Without Borders. As part of our educational initiative: 1. We installed composting toilets to recycle waste into nutrient rich soil. 2. Established a Bamboo Propagation Nursery to train young farmers in cultivating this versatile crop for construction furniture and biofuel also serving as a food source. 3. Our Apple Orchards demonstrate planting techniques for this nutritious fruit not yet grown commercially in our region. Additionally we sponsor teacher training and launched the only Ethiopian STEM program for grades 1-12 in public school to enhance the educational experience.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
School construction is a primary commitment building classrooms to host grades K-8 in a safe and enriching environment and to host after-school micro business and educational experiences and skills training in the finished classrooms for 1000 children. We support and maintain the school buildings as we complete them until we transfer ownership to the Ethiopian Education Ministry. We are building micro businesses to use the shelter of the classrooms.
$56,513 spent79% of program spendingOur model Saturday STEM program for 285 children including all grades is the first in Ethiopia in an elementary school. It is so popular we added high school classes and invited the children from the Beta Israel community who are now bussed across the city to join. We employ local university faculty to teach linking our disadvantaged students with the university knowledge base. We host 3 days a week STEM classes in the summer which is the only free educational offering in the city for elementary children,
$7,454 spent10% of program spendingOur agricultural research successes are expanding the crops previously grown in the region increasing the economic and nutritional benefits to the community. We have proven bamboo apple and enset false banana a highly nutritional tuber thrive in our area and we are sharing the agricultural techniques with local farmers increasing the crop varieties grown in the region. We added 2000 sq.meters of vegetable farming to feed hungry people displaced to our area.
$7,243 spent10% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $71,210.
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 $27k to $123k (+349%).
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 THE COMMUNITY PROJECT’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 2 funders, grant income fell $85k → $718.
3 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 95% 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 THE COMMUNITY PROJECT’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
THE COMMUNITY PROJECT leans on a few funders — its largest provides 89% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
95% 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 THE COMMUNITY PROJECT.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 94% · 2021 98% · 2022 99% · 2023 93% — 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
95% of THE COMMUNITY PROJECT'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 $8k that is directly attributable, 62% of it comes from Ohio funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $166k 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
THE COMMUNITY PROJECT has grown faster than three-quarters of the 14,851 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,851 human services nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like THE COMMUNITY PROJECT
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.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE COMMUNITY PROJECT: 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 THE COMMUNITY PROJECT?
- THE COMMUNITY PROJECT (Ohio) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $173,865 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($155,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 95% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does THE COMMUNITY PROJECT have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $173,865 in grants to THE COMMUNITY PROJECT, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE COMMUNITY PROJECT?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $155,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE COMMUNITY PROJECT 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), 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