Project Happy Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
873734340
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2023–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2022
Location
Exeter, NH, USA
Phone
6035606233
Rating
87
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Education N.E.C.

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$64,960
Expenses
$55,262
Assets
$0
Liabilities
$0

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

Leadership & pay

4 people listed

People named in this filing

  • DAVID ROGERS (BOARD MEMBER)
  • BRIAN HETTRICK (BOARD MEMBER)
  • TAYLOR CLARK (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 happy is a nonprofit tech startup on a mission to insprire thousands of youth to live happier and more community connected lives. Our innovative mobile app eliminates the barriers that discourage a student from community involvement and volunteering by simplifying and improving the student volunteering process.

What it reported doing in 2025

Program happy, inc. Provides nh high school students, grades 9-12, and university students access to and use of our proprietary student volunteerism engagement platform (platform), project happy. Scaled impact: facilitated thousands of verified youth volunteer hours through our volunteer hub. Direct student engagement: reached approximately 1,500 New Hampshire students via in-person conversations & assemblies on service and wellbeing. Youth leadership: built over 20 student ambassador programs spanning 5 schools. Education innovation: launched a district-backed pathway awarding course credit for service, 2 credit hours for 75 verified hours, with the first cohort completed.

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

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: 91
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 39
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 85.1%; rating input score 85
  • 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: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 14.9%; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 3; 3rd 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: -18.1% per year; rating input score 0; 21st percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -15.7% per year; rating input score 0; 18th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -149.1% per year; rating input score 0; 1st percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 85.1% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $55K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
  • Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 3 filing years from 2023 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 — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 3/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.