Project Understanding Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 113412800
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2018–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2017, Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Dix Hills, NY, USA
- Phone
- 5168179576
- Rating
- 71
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Education N.E.C.
- Affiliation
- Interfaith
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $11,344
- Expenses
- $4,290
- Assets
- $7,147
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
2 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ROGER TILLES (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- ROGER TILLES (PRESIDENT)
- LAUREN CHIZNER (TREASURER)
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
To heighten interfaith awareness.
What it reported doing in 2025
Catholic and jewish high school students were selected to participate in a program of interfaith awareness. The students participated in each others' religious services and charitable activities. The students then went on a trip to israel to visit historic sites of both religions including jerusalem, golan heights, galilee, nazareth, yad vashem and tel aviv.
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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of total spending goes to programs. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and assets have declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 61
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 69
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 37.8%; rating input score 38
- 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: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 62.2%; rating input score 93; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.67; rating input score 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 88.6%; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 3.5% per year; rating input score 100; 57th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 2.3% per year; rating input score 100; 59th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -7.7% per year; rating input score 0; 20th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 37.8% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $4K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 2 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 7 filing years from 2018 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 38/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 0/100.