Project Cure Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
521317559
IRS 990 coverage
2014–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025
Location
Lakewood Ranch, FL, USA
Phone
9419625315
Rating
41
Verdict
MIXED
Rating confidence
Moderate

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$4,701,570
Expenses
$4,657,418
Assets
$292,531
Liabilities
$3,073,198

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

Leadership & pay

3 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • MICHAEL EVERS (PRESIDENT)

Highest reported compensation

  • MICHAEL EVERS (PRESIDENT): $216,000 total reported compensation

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

Overview

Mission

The organization is dedicated to promoting increased public awareness of cutting-edge, evidence-based prevention strategies and treatments for a variety of disease conditions that generally fall outside the confines of mainstream medicine. Whether they are labeled "alternative medicine- or "complementary medicine- or "integrative medicine", these modalities are becoming more popular with american consumers as more scientific research is directed at them. Since many of these modalities are ancient and already in the public domain, public funding of such research is critical due to the lack of financial incentives that typically drive scientific endeavors. To that end, the organization supports the work of the national institutes of health's national center for complementary and integrative health and promotes awareness of its efforts to conduct sound research to determine which of these unconventional modalities have merit. We educate consumers, health professionals, and policy makers a

What it reported doing in 2025

Fund for integrative cancer treatment and prevention accomplishments - -the organization helped persuade congress to continue funding the national center for complementary and integrative health at 170 million for fy2025. -the organization distributed thousands of free action kits to consumers who requested information on the prevention and treatment of cancer. In particular, information on the effectiveness of dogs in detecting cancer was provided to consumers. Kits included either a 27 page white paper on the prevention and treatment of breast cancer with 366 footnotes or a 26 page white paper on the prevention and treatment of prostate cancer with nautural therapeutics with 285 footnotes. The papers encouraged consumers to lobby the food and drug administration and the national cancer institute to fast track funding for cancer sniffing dogs.

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 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

MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of voting board members are independent.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 24
  • Transparency & Controls: 74
  • Accountability: 42
  • Sustainability: 22
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 26.6%; rating input score 27
  • Program expense ratio: 26.8%; rating input score 27
  • Fundraising efficiency: $1.41 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 2 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 33
    • Compensation committee: Missing
    • Independent consultant: Missing
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
    • Written employment contract: Missing
    • Compensation survey or study: Pass
    • Board or committee approval: Pass
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: Limited
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 0%; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 8 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 100
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: Pass
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 0.9%; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.06; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 10.51; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 4.6%; rating input score 59; 59th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -1.9% per year; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -2.2% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -2.7% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 26.6% of revenue deployed · 26.8% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 0 of 3 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $1.2M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $216K · 3 people listed · 2 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $3.7M reported
  • Consistency: 26 of 26 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
  • Filing history: 12 filing years from 2014 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
  • 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 27/100.
  • High — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 0/100.
  • High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 27/100.
  • High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 3/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 30/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 2/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 0/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 59/100.