If you really want to obsess about it, you can generate a range and distribution function for each item along each axis, which is pretty much the definition of a fuzzy point. Then you can select a region from the space, and rate projects in terms of how much each one falls inside that region.

This is where I am at on it. I was hoping something would save me the pain of this process. I can't figure out how to do the region, other than map each zip code to a lat/long then do a circle distance from the new project point.

Thanks for brain dump