Project Dynamo Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
872362688
IRS 990 coverage
2021–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025
Location
Naples, FL, USA
Phone
8324750211
Rating
78
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
International Migration, Refugee Issues

Reported finances

Revenue
$507,755
Expenses
$1,237,422
Assets
$243,209
Liabilities
$152,258

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

Leadership & pay

3 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • MARIO DUARTE (PRESIDENT)

People named in this filing

  • STANLEY BUNNER (DIRECTOR)
  • BRAD COHEN (DIRECTOR)
  • MARIO DUARTE (PRESIDENT)

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

To deploy personnel and resources to global flashpoints where the us government has little to no formal diplomatic and military presence, either refused to conduct evacuations of us persons, allies, or vulnerable populations or where those efforts have proven to be insufficient. To relocate american citizens, permanent resident aliens, allies, and vulnerable populations from those conflict zones to regional safe havens and, when possible, to reunite them with family members and assist with their return to the united states or other friendly/safe countries.

What it reported doing in 2025

Afghanistan: prepared, planned, coordinated, and executed the assembly of groups of american citizens, permanent resident aliens, and citizens of allied nations wishing and legally able to leave afghanistan. Contracted necessary food, housing, air and ground transportation, and medical support for evacuees pending evacuation. Facilitated government processing of documents necessary for international travel. Contracted or otherwise secured aircraft to transport evacuees from afghanistan to the united states and facilitated continued travel from the initial point of entry to their ultimate destination. Nomad: ground evacuation operations from afghanistan to neighboring countries of allies and partners to neighboring countries providing safe haven. Slingshot: air evacuation of us persons, lawful residents, and visa holders who are legally permitted to enter the united states, to the united states for reunification with families. Hostage rescues & special operations. The targeted rescue of american citizens who are held hostage, unlawfully detained, illegally charged, incarcerated or are at high risk of being captured and interrogated by foreign powers militaries, terrorist organizations, criminal elements, or intelligence services. These are intelligence and technology driven operations using the full-spectrum of tradecraft. Missions include: detroit lions, lone star, rio grande, green devil, twin cities, keystone, hollywood, outerbanks, four corners, kbar, stone street, all star, and tree stump. Ukraine. Prepared, planned, coordinated, and executed the rescue of american citizens, permanent resident aliens, and citizens of allied nations from ukraine and russian-occupied ukraine during the russian invasion of ukraine. Provided food, housing, air and ground transportation, and medical support for evacuees pending evacuation. Operation: apollo humanitarian rescue convoys. From small cars to 20-passenger sprinter vans to large 50-passenger coach busses, we have evacuated vulnerable civilians from the ukrainian war-zone and inside the russian occupied areas to neighboring nato countries. Over 150 missions completed. Operation: gemini. American and western surrogate newborn baby rescue operations. Rescues of newborn babies born in the war-zone who are american, but born to ukrainian surrogate mothers. These operations use neonatal specialists, doctors, and if needed, premature advanced life support ambulances. 60 operations completed 68 gemini babies (many are twins). Operation: aquarius. Like gemini missions, except the babies are not born yet. This is the tactical evacuation of pregnant ukrainian surrogate mothers carrying unborn american or western babies. These missions, once complete, turn into geminis after the babies are born. The women, and their families, must be evacuated from the war zones and occupied areas, but are forced to remain in ukraine because surrogate pregnancy is not legal in many countries. Once they give birth, dynamo evacuates the babies and often the surrogate mother and her family. Operation: aries hostile medical evacuation operations. Civilians who are injured, hurt, infirmed, or wounded that are in the "hot zone- or the occupied areas. Project dynamo provides medical care when, often, an ambulance is needed with a dynamo medical team to evacuate them. Operation: atlas blind and deaf rescue program. Due to their disability, they are extremely vulnerable in the war-zone air raid sirens, bombs and gunshots cannot be seen or heard, making them even more vulnerable in areas of war. Operation: voyager holocaust survivor program. Because these vulnerable people are two-time victims of genocidal war and tend to be elderly, we treat these cases very special. Most voyagers are typically in high-risk areas who came to ukraine as refugees escaping nazi persecution during wwii. Project dynamo conducts the rescue, evacuates them to safety, and then flies them to israel. Russia: sensitive rescue operations conducted i

Operating model

Revenue model
Grant-funded. 97% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
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 the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and expenses are high relative to revenue.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 94
  • Transparency & Controls: 90
  • Accountability: 64
  • Sustainability: 13
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 82.9%; rating input score 83
  • Fundraising efficiency: $3,280.24 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 99; 99th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 1 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 14
    • 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: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -143.7%; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.2; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.63; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -11.6% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -25.7% per year; rating input score 0; 1st percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -8.6% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 82.9% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 3 of 3 board members independent · 1 of 7 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $1M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
  • Consistency: 23 of 23 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 6 not reported.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 10/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 9/100.