California · Nonprofit
The Gemma Project Inc
The Gemma Project Inc (California) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $87,650 to it, the largest being THE SMITH FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($25,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $237k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $88k
- Net assets
- $277k
What The Gemma Project Inc does
Mission
The Gemma Project provides, and promotes the national creation of, gender-responsive reentry programming that serves incarcerated and formerly incarcerated women with integrity and compassion. We advocate for policy change focused on what works to reduce recidivism, break the intergenerational cycle of incarceration, and create healthier communities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The Gemma Project received funding to provide gender-responsive in-reach reentry preparation and continuing care community support for women paroling from the two women's prisons in California to 10 coastal counties: Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Monterey, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Cruz, Santa Clara, Solano and Sonoma. The BSCC Adult Reentry Grant (ARG) is a three-year competitive grant administered by the Board of State and Community Corrections (BSCC), running from January 2023 through December 2025. It provides rental subsidies and move-in assistance to eligible individuals re-entering the community as well reentry support.
$43,500 earned by the programNot described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent$5,000 earned by the programNot described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense.
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
Cynthia Chase
Co-Founder & Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
2 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 34% 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 Gemma 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
The Gemma Project Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 29% of grant income and the top three 69%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
34% 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 Gemma Project Inc.
“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
The Gemma Project Inc draws 66% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 4 states in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $30k 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
The Gemma Project Inc runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,547 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,547 crime & legal nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like The Gemma 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.
In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
19% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for The Gemma Project Inc: 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 Gemma Project Inc?
- The Gemma Project Inc (California) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $87,650 to it, the largest being THE SMITH FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($25,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does The Gemma Project Inc have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $87,650 in grants to The Gemma Project Inc, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of The Gemma Project Inc?
- THE SMITH FAMILY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $25,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like The Gemma Project Inc 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 2025–2025), and the filings of 6 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