Grandmother Project Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 651201805
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2012–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Lindale, TX, USA
- Phone
- 9038818625
- Rating
- 73
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- International Relief
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $294,239
- Expenses
- $263,577
- Assets
- $199,366
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- CAROLYN LONG (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- JUDI AUBEL (EXECUTIVE DI)
- LILLIAN BAER (SECRETARY)
- JACQUELINE BAUDOUIN (BOARD MEMBER)
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
Perform charitable, educational, and public health activities within the meaning of the internal revenue code section 501(c)(3) and Texas code section 11.18 and specifically to increase and strengthen the knowledge and role of grandmothers in families and communities
What it reported doing in 2025
Grandmother project (gmp) develops community programs in west africa to improve the education, health and protection of women and children, especially girls, which build on positive culture roles and values. Gmp's unique approach actively involves elders, especially grandmothers, an abundant and underutilized resource to promote the well-being of low socio-economic women and children. Gmp's activities are primarily in senegal and to a lesser extent in benin, sierra leone and mauritania. Our mission is to build the capacity of other pvos to integrate grandmother- inclusive and intergenerational approaches into their community programs by providing them with training, materials and follow-up support.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 90% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and most voting board members are independent. The filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad and the filing does not identify recipients for some grant dollars.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 79
- Transparency & Controls: 55
- Accountability: 88
- Sustainability: 54
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 87.9%; rating input score 88
- Program expense ratio: 90.8%; rating input score 91
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Scored; rating input score 0
- Grant itemization coverage: Scored; rating input score 0
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 71
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 10.4%; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.76; rating input score 34; 34th 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: 2.2% per year; rating input score 100; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 4.8% per year; rating input score 100; 47th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 9.3% per year; rating input score 100; 61st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 87.9% of revenue deployed · 90.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 8 of 8 board members independent · 5 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $239K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 19 of 19 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and foreign activity
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2012 to 2025
- 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: Foreign activity oversight scored 0/100.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 57/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 34/100.