Project Purpose Corporation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 810685126
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2018–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Pottstown, PA, USA
- Phone
- 4843780746
- Rating
- 56
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Human Service Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $194,413
- Expenses
- $157,403
- Assets
- $190,309
- Liabilities
- $1
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- BRANDY SMALE (PRESIDENT)
- ROBERTO CALDERON (VICE PRESIDENT)
- MARCIE EVANGELIST (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
People named in this filing
- BRANDY SMALE (PRESIDENT)
- MARK E NIEHLS (BOARD MEMBER)
- ERIN WADE (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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To meet the educational, physical, and spiritual needs of low-income families of pottstown, Pennsylvania.
What it reported doing in 2024
Low-income children received a hot dinner on wednesdays after attending the homework help program. Summer scholars is a credit recovery program for low-income 9th-12th grade students who cannot afford the fee-based programs offered by their districts. These students would fall farther behind in school without a free option. Summer scholars provides an opportunity for these at-risk students to experience 2 weeks of meaningful, faith-based learning
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 97% 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
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue comfortably covers expenses. 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: 20
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 62
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 18.7%; rating input score 19
- Program expense ratio: 20.8%; rating input score 21
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 19%; rating input score 73; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.21; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 26.2%; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -16.6% per year; rating input score 0; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 10.4% per year; rating input score 100; 67th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 12.5% per year; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 18.7% of revenue deployed · 20.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 4 filed program accomplishments · $33K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2018 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 19/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 21/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 13/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 53/100.