PROJECT FRIENDSHIP DBA Laguna On Fire Ministries

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
760438665
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2014–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2011
Location
Mission, TX, USA
Phone
8325484949
Rating
47
Verdict
MIXED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
International Exchange, N.E.C.
Affiliation
Christianity

Reported finances

Revenue
$57,540
Expenses
$66,052
Assets
$68,065
Liabilities
$0

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

Leadership & pay

4 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • George Phifer (President)
  • Richard Wyatt (Vice President)

People named in this filing

  • George Phifer (President)
  • Richard Wyatt (Vice President)
  • Kelly Hughes (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

Project Friendship's primary exempt purpose is to spread the Gospel of Jesus Christ by assisting foreign missionaries.

What it reported doing in 2025

Through donor contributions we were able to fund ministry programs to share God's love with the people of the Laguna in Mexico. These ministry programs include the Mercy Ministry, which provides groceries and diapers to those in extreme need, the Children's Feeding Program, which provides a weekly meal along with Bible teaching to kids in different neighborhoods, the Medical Assistance Program, which provides help for medical expenses, the Small Business Investment Program, which provides micro-funding to individuals to help them start their own business, as well as outreach activities at the churches that we work with. We also helped to fund the operations of the rehabilitation center "Casa de Vida Rescatados por Cristo" (which had a name change), and helped them to continue to improve the facility in order to meet government requirements. We funded these programs with grants of $49,203.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 89% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.

The verdict

MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 0
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 40
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 0%; rating input score 0
  • Program expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0

Transparency & Controls

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

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -14.8%; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.03; rating input score 48; 48th 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 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 3.8% per year; rating input score 100; 58th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 2.7% per year; rating input score 100; 61st percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 24.1% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed · 0% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
  • Consistency: 8 of 9 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 12 filing years from 2014 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 4 filed money-flow records
  • 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 0/100.
  • High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III transfer expenses within program total did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 25/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 48/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.