New York · Nonprofit
THE POSSIBILITY PROJECT INC
THE POSSIBILITY PROJECT INC (New York) receives grants from 45 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,906,668 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($298,975). 29 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $638k
- Funders on record
- 45
- Grants received
- $1.9M
- Net assets
- $410k
What The Possibility Project Inc does
Mission
The possibility project, inc. Operates year long programs that bring together vastly diverse groups of youth from various backrounds and experiences. These youth undergo an intense year long creative process through which they write an original musical whose stories come from their lives and their ideas for a better world. Also created are community change projects where the youth's ideas are taken and acted on within their city. The possibility project, inc. Envisions a society where teenagers are valued, respected and play a leading role in creating vibrant communities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Programs in new york city to promote non-violent conflict resolution among young people. The possibility project, inc. Program is a combination of activities that examine the interrelationships of the problems and conflicts that youth care about and often suffer from. It also develops the capacity for addressing these issues. Highly interactive and intensely creative, the possibility project rehersals utilize the performing arts to unlock participants' creativity around important personal and social issues and learn the skills necessary for performance, effecting change both on stage and off for them and their communities. The possibility project hopes to serve 160 youth in its program in the coming year.
$556,328 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $556,328.
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 $266k to $155k (−42%).
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: 2018 3% · 2019 10% · 2020 20% · 2021 25% · 2022 11% · 2023 21% · 2024 16%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
96% of THE POSSIBILITY PROJECT INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (94% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 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
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 11 funders to 20 funders, grant income fell $211k → $206k.
9 of 45 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 30% 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 POSSIBILITY PROJECT INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 45 funders by total. 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 POSSIBILITY PROJECT INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 16% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
31% 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 POSSIBILITY PROJECT INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 36% · 2018 45% · 2019 20% · 2020 32% · 2021 26% · 2022 43% · 2023 22% — 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
48% of THE POSSIBILITY PROJECT INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% 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
67% of THE POSSIBILITY PROJECT INC'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. $573k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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 POSSIBILITY PROJECT INC is better cushioned than half of the 1,661 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,661 crime & legal nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding THE POSSIBILITY PROJECT INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $135k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$135k
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 THE POSSIBILITY 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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
76% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 THE POSSIBILITY 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 POSSIBILITY PROJECT INC?
- THE POSSIBILITY PROJECT INC (New York) receives grants from 45 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,906,668 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($298,975). 29 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE POSSIBILITY PROJECT INC have?
- IRS filings report 45 organizations giving $1,906,668 in grants to THE POSSIBILITY PROJECT INC, 29 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE POSSIBILITY PROJECT INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $298,975 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE POSSIBILITY PROJECT INC 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 45 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing