Global Development Project Kenya (GDP Kenya)
Legal name: Global Development Project Kenya Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 931730164
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2024–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Jul 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2023
- Location
- Jacksonville, FL, United States
- Phone
- +1-904-370-3675
- Rating
- 64
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Fund Raising and Fund Distribution
- Affiliation
- Religious (unspecified)
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $128,709
- Expenses
- $143,812
- Assets
- $48,503
- Liabilities
- $1
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MICHAEL WRIGHT (President)
Highest reported compensation
- ERIC WRIGHT (Director): $9,740 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Serving vulnerable children, women, and families across East Africa every single day; “Serving East Africa Since 1991” (donor-facing purpose language from the organization’s site). Unmuted is a small support circle that meets by voice on WhatsApp every Saturday. It brings together young people _across East Africa, the U.S. and beyond_ — youth who carry more than their years should have to, and who rarely have a safe place to set it down. It isn’t a lecture, a class, or a church service. It’s a circle. Voices only, cameras optional, where being honest about depression, anxiety, grief, faith and hope is normal — not awkward. _You belong here._ 🎙️.
What it reported doing in 2025
Project of hope construction
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 50% for direct work, and 50% for grants.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of voting board members are independent and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 88
- Transparency & Controls: 75
- Accountability: 0
- Sustainability: 20
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 98.1%; rating input score 98
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: 0 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Claims monitoring procedures: Fail
- Requires narrative reports: Fail
- Conducts field audits: Fail
- May suspend future funding: Fail
- Requires financial reports: Fail
- Conducts site visits: Fail
- Requires grant agreements: Fail
- May require repayment: Fail
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 0%; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 0 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Fail
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -11.7%; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.34; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 54; 54th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: Limited
Growth
- Program expense growth: 96.6% per year; rating input score 100; 98th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 44% per year; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 55.5% per year; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 3 operating locations identified
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 98.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 0 of 7 board members independent · 0 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 9 filed program accomplishments · $141K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $10K · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 21 of 21 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and foreign activity
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 0/100.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 6 of 6 not reported.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight: 8 of 8 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 17/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 18/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 54/100.