Massachusetts · Nonprofit
THE POSSIBLE PROJECT INC
THE POSSIBLE PROJECT INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 42 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,847,233 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,305,135). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 61% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $25M
- Funders on record
- 42
- Grants received
- $4.8M
- Net assets
- $2.2M
What The Possible Project Inc does
Mission
Tpz's program is a steam-infused and entrepreneurship-focused youth development and career-readiness program for high school students from historically under-resourced communities. This tuition-free program represents an investment in each student for 3+ years, taking students on a journey where they tap into their creativity, cultivate key durable and 21st century skills, build strong relationships with supportive adults and peers, and broaden their sense of what is possible in their futures. Our multi-faceted, tuition-free program uses: 1) competency-based curriculum, with a focus on developing skills that are critical for career success, particularly in growing, future-focused industries; 2) hands-on steam exploration and real-world, work-based learning opportunities with local companies and in tpz's in-house enterprises; and 3) personalized college and career advising to inspire students' imaginations, and key network building to launch successful post-secondary pathways.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2024 return the organization reported starting a significant new program.
Tpz created 5 wholly-owned llcs for the purpose of developing and marketing products created by students which have been reported as disregarded entities on schedule r.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).
While participating in tpz's program, high school students develop key competencies such as growth mindset, self efficacy, problem solving, teamwork, communication, continuous learning, and steam agency as they engage in innovative, project-based learning, explore authentic, real-world work experience, and receive personalized advising focused on their postsecondary and career options. Tpz operates its program out of its state-of-the-art innovation center, which opened in early 2022 in the jackson square community of boston. Tpz's program and student supports aim to foster "entrepreneurial spirit" among students, characterized by: (1) a sense of belonging, agency, purpose, and possibility; (2) critical skills, mindsets, and assets that enable deeper learning, promote productive risk-taking, and ultimately foster success in any educational or career pathway; and (3) the strong relationships and networks (I.e., social capital) needed for long-term personal and professional success.tpz focuses new student recruitment on public high schools in boston. Tpz also recruits students from the community surrounding its innovation center, via community recruitment events and partnerships with…
$12,808,129 spentof which $331,314 as grants89% of program spendingTpz ventures: through tpz ventures, tpz also delivers the tpz launch program, through which qualified young adults from tpz's target communities, including tpz alumni, are hired as the founding teams of pre-ideation ventures that we build together from the ground up in a curated "sprint" to launch physical consumer products. Tpz launch participants, known as "founding associates," develop product development and product management skills as they position themselves for their future careers at tpz or elsewhere.
$1,601,677 spent11% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $14,409,806.
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 2020 to 2021, from $2.5M to $21M (+715%).
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: 2020 8% · 2021 8% · 2022 8% · 2023 1% · 2024 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of THE POSSIBLE PROJECT INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (23% 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.
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.
Board chair
Mark Levin
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 11 funders to 15 funders, grant income rose $295k → $951k.
13 of 42 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 61% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $21M from one payer (the payer's own filing calls it a related party, largest Samantha Becky Mark Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money THE POSSIBLE PROJECT INC raised.
From the IRS filings of THE POSSIBLE PROJECT INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 42 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 POSSIBLE PROJECT INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 27% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
69% 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 POSSIBLE PROJECT INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 28% · 2018 34% · 2019 26% · 2020 25% · 2021 27% · 2022 49% · 2023 42% — 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
39% of THE POSSIBLE PROJECT INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
61% of THE POSSIBLE PROJECT INC'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 $1.9M that is directly attributable, 72% of it comes from Massachusetts funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.9M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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 POSSIBLE PROJECT INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 4,065 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,065 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Government funding THE POSSIBLE PROJECT INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.3M on record.
- (PP) STATE AID/POL SUB$1.3M
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 POSSIBLE 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 Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
70% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 5 related entities
- Tpzv-24-1 LLC · disregarded
- Tpzv-24-2 LLC · disregarded
- Tpzv-24-3 LLC · disregarded
- Tpzv-24-4 LLC · disregarded
- Tpzv-24-5 LLC · disregarded
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE POSSIBLE 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 POSSIBLE PROJECT INC?
- THE POSSIBLE PROJECT INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 42 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,847,233 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,305,135). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 61% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does THE POSSIBLE PROJECT INC have?
- IRS filings report 42 organizations giving $4,847,233 in grants to THE POSSIBLE PROJECT INC, 21 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE POSSIBLE PROJECT INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $1,305,135 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE POSSIBLE PROJECT INC 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 42 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