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THREE SISTERS GARDEN PROJECT INC

THREE SISTERS GARDEN PROJECT INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,202,972 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($229,253). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 57% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

$732k
Revenue FY2024
29
Funders on record
$1.2M
Grants received
$481k
Net assets
18/29 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 57%

Against its field

THREE SISTERS GARDEN PROJECT INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 2,964 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.

Operating margin10% · above the median
Months of reserve2.9mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)24% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,964 food & nutrition nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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.

100 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($308k) Expenses 100 ($246k) Net assets 100 ($141k)2021 Revenue 135 ($417k) Expenses 136 ($335k) Net assets 158 ($223k)2022 Revenue 180 ($555k) Expenses 175 ($431k) Net assets 265 ($374k)2023 Revenue 166 ($511k) Expenses 195 ($479k) Net assets 287 ($406k)2024 Revenue 238 ($732k) Expenses 267 ($656k) Net assets 341 ($481k)
20202021202220232024
Revenue (238)Expenses (267)Net assets (341)Peer revenue range

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.

2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 1% · 2021 6% · 2022 2% · 2024 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

81% of THREE SISTERS GARDEN PROJECT INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (95% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 3,353 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

$62k
20
$82k
21
$124k
22
$32k
23
$77k
24
2.9
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 14 funders, grant income rose $10k → $292k.

5 of 29 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)57% 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 THREE SISTERS GARDEN 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

THREE SISTERS GARDEN PROJECT INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 19% 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

64% 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 THREE SISTERS GARDEN PROJECT INC.

19%
largest funder
48%
top three
~9
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 22% · 2021 33% · 2022 18% · 2023 36%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

44% of THREE SISTERS GARDEN PROJECT INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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

57% of THREE SISTERS GARDEN 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 $522k that is directly attributable, 84% of it comes from Massachusetts funders.

ME
WA
NY
MA
CO
MD

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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21
22
23
Massachusetts out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $681k 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 29 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Government funding THREE SISTERS GARDEN PROJECT INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $88k on record — $9k federal, $79k state.

Federal$9k
grants $9kcontracts $0
Top agencies
  • Department of Agriculture$9k
State$79k
24
25
Top programs
  • (PP) STATE AID/POL SUB$79k

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 THREE SISTERS GARDEN PROJECT INC

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Massachusetts

Nationally

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

78% of spending goes to programs.

Program 78%Management 10%Fundraising 12%

Governance

9
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

89%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MA

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THREE SISTERS GARDEN 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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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds THREE SISTERS GARDEN PROJECT INC?
THREE SISTERS GARDEN PROJECT INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,202,972 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($229,253). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 57% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does THREE SISTERS GARDEN PROJECT INC have?
IRS filings report 29 organizations giving $1,202,972 in grants to THREE SISTERS GARDEN PROJECT INC, 18 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of THREE SISTERS GARDEN PROJECT INC?
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $229,253 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like THREE SISTERS GARDEN 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.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 29funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing