Project 541
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 463220695
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2018–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2013
- Location
- Chattanooga, TN, USA
- Phone
- 6783575031
- Rating
- 93
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Centers to Support the Independence of Specific Populations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $125,835
- Expenses
- $122,612
- Assets
- $56,344
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- BRENDA AUSTIN (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- KAYLA AUSTIN (EXECUTIVE DI)
- KENDALL AUSTIN (TREASURER)
- LAURIE DURHAM (SECRETARY)
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
To empower girls and women of la moskitia honduras, and to provide a safe, stable living environment for girls to grow and be educated focusing on long term success and sustainable change. To do any or all of the things herein above set forth, and all things usual, necessary or proper in furtherance of or incidental to said purpose.
What it reported doing in 2025
One of our residents required heart surgery which was done successfully this year which was a long-term goal for the organization as we have been monitoring her heart defect since she first came to live with us. One of our former residents was life-flighted at year end to the capital city for extensive medical care from malnutrition. He has been reintegrated into the house.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 98% 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. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 95
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 36
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 94.3%; rating input score 94
- Program expense ratio: 96.7%; rating input score 97
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 2.6%; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.46; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 1.7% per year; rating input score 100; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 5.4% per year; rating input score 100; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -2.2% per year; rating input score 0; 20th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 94.3% of revenue deployed · 96.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $119K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 8 filing years from 2018 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.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 39/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 36/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.