Project Mañana International
Legal name: Project Maana
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 273512516
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2015–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2014, Form 990-N 2010
- Location
- Venice, Florida, USA
- Phone
- +1 800.471.2343
- Rating
- 68
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- International Development
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,099,872
- Expenses
- $1,001,012
- Assets
- $1,368,930
- Liabilities
- $5,855
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- BRIAN BERMAN (President)
- NEBRASKA BERMAN (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- BRIAN BERMAN (President): $98,926 total reported compensation
- NEBRASKA BERMAN (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $60,000 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Project Mañana exists to share the gospel and help break the cycle of poverty by investing in impoverished children, their families and communities through clean water, nutrition, education, and discipling projects. Project Mañana is a fantastic nonprofit that allowed me to go on a trip to the Dominican Republic, and are letting me again this year, which I am extremely excited about, they take care of their missionaries while they are there and keep them very safe. I also help sponsor a child and it is amazing to be able to go and meet the children in person, and do things like give them hearty meals and play with them, Project Mañana should be what other nonprofits strive to be. Treydubs.
What it reported doing in 2025
Prison project - in 2025, project maana's "institute for authentic manhood/womanhood"(tm) graduated 950 people (inmates, prison staff, and government officials). Of the total inmate graduates, many made the decision to receive jesus christ as their savior and were baptized by project maana inside the prison. As of december 31, 2025, project maana serves in 20 men's and 3 women's prisons in the dominican republic.timothy project - in 2025, the evangelical church that project maana launched in 2015 continues to thrive. Additionally, the timothy project provided benevolent gifts to impoverished people for medical services, school scholarships, groceries, and more. In june 2024, construction was completed on a new church & dormitory building.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 71% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- 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 most voting board members are independent. The filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad and the filing does not identify recipients for some grant dollars.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 74
- Transparency & Controls: 55
- Accountability: 73
- Sustainability: 51
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 80.3%; rating input score 80
- Program expense ratio: 88.2%; rating input score 88
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Scored; rating input score 0
- Grant itemization coverage: Scored; rating input score 0
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 71.4%; rating input score 71; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 6 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 75
- 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: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 9%; rating input score 54; 54th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.37; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 15.9%; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 17.3% per year; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 14.6% per year; rating input score 100; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 18.7% per year; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 3 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 80.3% of revenue deployed · 88.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 5 of 7 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 6 filed program accomplishments · $883K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $99K · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 27 of 27 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and foreign activity
- Filing history: 11 filing years from 2015 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 5 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 — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight scored 0/100.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 54/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 53/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 23/100.