Post Traumatic Growth Project

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
994040925
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2024–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-T 2025
Location
Saratoga Springs, UT, USA
Rating
81
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Mental Health, Crisis Intervention N.E.C.

Reported finances

Revenue
$8,512
Expenses
$7,044
Assets
$1,629

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

3 people listed

People named in this filing

  • RUTH GERRISTSEN-MCKANE (Trustee)
  • LAURA E JUAREZ (Trustee)
  • ANRICO A DELRAY (Trustee)

Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

The Post Traumatic Growth Project (PTGP) is a nascent nonprofit organization committed to empowering individuals and communities to thrive in the face of adversity. We want to provide veteran support, first responder mental health resources, teacher resilience strategies, and healthcare worker recovery tools. Whether youre seeking peer support programs or therapist self-care, we offer trauma-informed care and expert-led resilience workshops to help you heal and grow. We believe that even in the darkest of times, it is possible to find hope, resilience, and positive growth. Through our programs, we equip individuals withthe tools to tap into their inner strength, cultivate meaningful connections, and discover the limitless potential within themselves. By applying the principles of Post Traumatic Growth, PTGP fosters a culture of hope, healing, and transformation. Discover strength after adversity with us. Our goal is to reduce suicide rates by providing individuals with the tools and su

What it reported doing in 2025

Explanation of How Programs Advance the Mission of PTGP: o Our inaugural conference directly advanced our mission by providing expert-led resilience training and trauma-informed care education to our target audience, including veterans, first responders, teachers, healthcare workers, and mental health professionals.o The conference served as a crucial first step in equipping individuals with the skills to tap into their inner strength and cultivate meaningful connections, aligning with our goal of empowering individuals.o By educating healthcare professionals about Post Traumatic Growth (PTG) theory and research, we directly contribute to the public benefit by improving the quality of mental health care available to trauma survivors. This education will allow more professionals to correctly apply PTG principals to their client base.o The conference fostered a supportive environment, promoting hope, healing, and transformation, thus directly contributing to our goal of fostering a culture of hope.

Operating model

Revenue model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
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

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 89
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 45
  • Growth: 20

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 82.8%; rating input score 83
  • Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 17.2%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.23; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -3.4% per year; rating input score 0; 39th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -17% per year; rating input score 0; 17th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 164% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 82.8% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $7K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
  • Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • 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 — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 20/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.