Peruvian Outreach Project Inc

What it reported doing in 2025

Aldea Infantil Virgen del Pilar Orphanage.The Peruvian Outreach Project (POP) continues to support the Music Workshop at the orphanage. The regional government continues to cover the instructor's pay and the children continue to receive instruction in music three times a week. We also provide support for the following: Christmas Celebration which includes special food, entertainment and gifts; sewing workshop which was set up by POP three years ago and help with supplies for the medical clinic POP established for the children and staff.Hogar Hermelinda Home for Young WomenPOP continued to provide room and board as well as tuition and transportation for the six participants in the Hogar Hermelinda Program. The home provides a secure and supportive environment for the participants who are studying to become nurses. These individuals come from rural areas of the Amazon from families with few financial resources. They continued to proceed through their studies including completing nurseing practicums. Participants graduated in 2025 and new participants have been selected for the program.Children's Center for Integrated Services (CCIS)POP has started a new program in the City of Trujillo, Peru. POP works with a local non-profit Illary Sumaq which has been established to set up a center to provide identification and evaluation of chidlren with learning differences who are struggling in a school setting. These children come from areas of high poverty where children with disabilities rarely receive any services. Opened in early 2025 and run by experienced therapists and psychologists, CCIS is providing early evaluation and identification of children with learning disabilities; providing integrated support with learning disabilities (speech, occupational, and behavioral services, educational support; training families and teachers to work with children with learning disabilities; and providing disability awareness campaigns to increase the social acceptance of people with learning disabilities in the local community.

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: 83.7%; rating input score 84
• Program expense ratio: 94.3%; rating input score 94
• Fundraising efficiency: $97.05 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 87; 87th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

• Consistency checks: 88.9%; rating input score 89; 9th percentile among comparable filings
• Pay-setting controls: Limited
• Foreign activity oversight: Limited
• Grant itemization coverage: Limited
• Major donor itemization: Limited
• Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

• Independent voting board: 0%; rating input score 0; 10th 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: 11.3%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.08; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
• Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: 37.8% per year; rating input score 100; 90th percentile among comparable filings
• Revenue growth: 13.7% per year; rating input score 100; 90th percentile among comparable filings
• Asset growth: 15.7% per year; rating input score 100; 85th percentile among comparable filings