Project41
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 465415938
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2024–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2023, Form 990-T 2025, Form 990-N 2019
- Location
- Auburn, CA, USA
- Phone
- 5304103305
- Rating
- 56
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Water Resource, Wetlands Conservation and Management
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $249,247
- Expenses
- $280,144
- Assets
- $120,605
- Liabilities
- $1,804
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Andrew Pierce (CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- Andrew Pierce (CEO): $93,600 total reported compensation
- Patty Pierce (Administrator): $24,000 total reported compensation
- Megan Pierce (Office Support): $15,400 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
We are a community of ordinary people with a passion to see those who are suffering realize the hope of safe, clean water.
What it reported doing in 2025
Kenya In 2025 Project41 provided ongoing maintenance and support of our safetap system to 129 schools orphanages and community centers in the informal settlements around Nairobi Kenya. Project41 also installed an additional 35 systems at 24 new schools. All together in 2025 Project41 provided clean water access to 53,053 children and families in Kenya.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 93% of its reported program spending out as grants.
The verdict
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue has grown recently. 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: 41
- Transparency & Controls: 84
- Accountability: 53
- Sustainability: 19
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 40.4%; rating input score 40
- Program expense ratio: 36%; rating input score 36
- Fundraising efficiency: $30.7 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 65; 65th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 90%; rating input score 90; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 75%; rating input score 75; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 2 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 22
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Fail
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -12.4%; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.43; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 50.7%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -38.2% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 13.4% per year; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 17.2% per year; rating input score 100; 79th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 40.4% of revenue deployed · 36% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 3 of 4 board members independent · 2 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $101K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $94K · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 22 of 23 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 6 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 40/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 36/100.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 7 of 9 not reported.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 17/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 22/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Foreign grants require schedule f did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 3/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 37/100.