Massachusetts · Nonprofit
THE GOVERNANCE PROJECT
THE GOVERNANCE PROJECT (Massachusetts) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $100,000 to it, the largest being COUNCIL OF DEVELOPMENT FINANCE AGEN ($100,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2019
- $701k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $100k
- Net assets
- $478k
What The Governance Project does
Mission
The Governance Project (tgp) will help promote economic development in opportunity zones ("o-zones") throughout the country as a means to achieve its mission of alleviating systemic poverty in economically depressed communities.
As stated on its FY2019 Form 990.
Program
Leveraging opportunity zones:to address poverty created by economic depression in communities in need across the country, tgp seeks to focus on o-zones as a means to bring economic opportunities to impoverished areas. O-zones are a new, little-known part of the internal revenue code that provide unprecedented incentives to revitalize impoverished communities through economic development. O-zones are approved by the u.s. Department of treasury's community development financial institutions fund as economically-distressed areas. To date, all fifty governors have designated (continued on schedule o) thousands of o-zones throughout the country - from rust belt cities to rural areas to parts of large urban centers. Now that all fifty states have designated o-zones, many state and local governments are looking for model approaches to bring economic development to these zones. The opportunity for these leaders and their communities to utilize this federal tax incentive in order to alleviate poverty and combat community deterioration within o-zones will depend on the matching of supply and demand for capital. Tgp will partner with a group of high-impact, results-oriented governors and…
The first program described on its most recent Form 990, which lists programs largest first by expense.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2018 to 2019, from $581k to $478k (−18%).
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 GOVERNANCE PROJECT’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (62% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 2 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.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of THE GOVERNANCE 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.
Where its funders are
THE GOVERNANCE PROJECT draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Massachusetts, across 1 state in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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 GOVERNANCE PROJECT is better cushioned than half of the 8,357 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 8,357 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2019
Organizations like THE GOVERNANCE 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 Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE GOVERNANCE 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 GOVERNANCE PROJECT?
- THE GOVERNANCE PROJECT (Massachusetts) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $100,000 to it, the largest being COUNCIL OF DEVELOPMENT FINANCE AGEN ($100,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE GOVERNANCE PROJECT have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $100,000 in grants to THE GOVERNANCE PROJECT.
- Who is the largest funder of THE GOVERNANCE PROJECT?
- COUNCIL OF DEVELOPMENT FINANCE AGEN is the largest funder on record, with $100,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE GOVERNANCE PROJECT find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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 FY2019 (financials across 2018–2019), and the filings of 1 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