Good Project Corp
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 883942948
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Wakefield, MA, USA
- Rating
- 72
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Fund Raising and Fund Distribution
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $242,868
- Expenses
- $179,248
- Assets
- $64,361
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
1 person listed
People named in this filing
- Victor Oliveira (Founder)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The Good Project is dedicated to transforming the lives of individuals struggling with mental health and addiction, and providing support to veterans in need. Our mission is to empower these marginalized populations by offering comprehensive assistance, including rehabilitation programs, counseling, and access to essential resources. Together, we strive to create a society where every individual has the opportunity to overcome adversity and lead meaningful, fulfilling lives.
What it reported doing in 2025
The organization provides direct financial assistance to individuals facing economic hardship and substance userelated recovery needs. During the year, the program delivered direct cash assistance to eligible individuals to help meet essential living needs, including housing stability, food security, transportation, and emergency expenses. Assistance was awarded based on documented need and aligned with the organizations charitable mission. In addition, the organization made payments on behalf of individuals to licensed rehabilitation and treatment facilities, enabling access to substance use disorder treatment and recovery services that would otherwise be unaffordable. Payments were made directly to service providers to support inpatient and outpatient rehabilitation, counseling, and related clinical services. Through this program, the organization helped stabilize individuals during periods of crisis, reduce barriers to recovery, and promote longterm selfsufficiency and wellbeing. Program outcomes are monitored through service utilization records and followup with participants and providers. Expenses: $109,653.30
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 62% of its reported program spending out as grants.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. The filing does not identify recipients for some grant dollars and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 82
- Transparency & Controls: 68
- Accountability: 64
- Sustainability: 59
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 72.6%; rating input score 73
- Program expense ratio: 98.3%; rating input score 98
- Fundraising efficiency: $80.96 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 82; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 90%; rating input score 90; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 16.8%; rating input score 17; 41st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 1 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 14
- 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: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Fail
- Audit committee oversight: Fail
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 26.2%; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.36; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 8.9% per year; rating input score 100; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 117.3% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 72.6% of revenue deployed · 98.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 1 of 1 board members independent · 1 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $110K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 1 people listed
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $20K reported
- Consistency: 18 of 19 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules · includes grants
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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 — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 17/100.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 6 of 7 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 19/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.