Project Mexico of the Orthodox Church
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 330521448
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Chula Vista, CA, USA
- Phone
- 6194264610
- Rating
- 70
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- International Development
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $3,109,876
- Expenses
- $2,793,260
- Assets
- $4,248,319
- Liabilities
- $344,513
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
16 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- NICHOLOAS L ANDRUCHOW (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- NICHOLOAS L ANDRUCHOW (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $147,140 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Project mexico involves volunteers from the us and canada in the alleviation of suffering by (1) building homes for mexico's poor and (2) operating st. Innocent orphanage in tijuana, a home for abused teenage boys. It is the only facility of its type in all of tijuana.
What it reported doing in 2024
Since inception, project mexico has built over 503 homes for the poor in mexico with the help of nearly 18,210 volunteers from 49 us states, many canadian provinces and 11 foreign countries. Many families endure squalid conditions in dirt-floor shacks pieced together with cardboard, old tarps and wooden pallets. With no protection from the elements, children and elderly often die during cold rainstorms. The lack of security in their flimsy shacks makes them easy victims for thieves. A project mexico home provides a concrete floor, solid walls and roof, a warm interior, and a locking door. This is a quantum leap forward for impoverished mexican families and gives them hope for the future. 27 homes were built and 201,392 volunteer hours were donated during the year ended august 2025.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 98% 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
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: 68
- Transparency & Controls: 55
- Accountability: 90
- Sustainability: 58
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 69.7%; rating input score 70
- Program expense ratio: 74.7%; rating input score 75
- Fundraising efficiency: $9.75 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 37; 37th 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: 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd 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: 10.2%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.52; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.08; rating input score 62; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 5.3%; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 5.9% per year; rating input score 100; 44th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 8.4% per year; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 8% per year; rating input score 100; 50th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 69.7% of revenue deployed · 74.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 16 of 16 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $2.1M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $147K · 16 people listed
- Consistency: 32 of 32 current checks pass
- Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors and foreign activity
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2011 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 37/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 52/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 52/100.