The Charis Project

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
800570774
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2012–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2014
Location
Escondido, CA, USA
Phone
4427772297
Rating
93
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
International Relief

Reported finances

Revenue
$194,522
Expenses
$231,889
Assets
$41,758

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

4 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Aaron Blue (President & CEO)

People named in this filing

  • Aaron Blue (President & CEO)
  • Bryan Jensen (Treasurer)
  • Boonlam Artinian (Director)

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

The Charis Project's mission is to implement targeted interventions that support migrant families in crisis through holistic family empowerment programs designed to heal families, strengthen families, and keep families together.

What it reported doing in 2025

The Charis Project's mission: Families protect children. We protect families. The Charis Project equips parents on the Thai/Burma border with the wisdom and courage they need to protect their children and raise them to be the heroes they were born to be. We strengthen desperate and hurting families, bringing them: practical support in times of crisis, education that helps them to raise their children to become strong healthy adults, and financial tools to build a stable future together.

Operating model

Revenue model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
Distribution model
Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 88% of its reported program spending out as grants.

The verdict

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 94
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 11
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 85.3%; rating input score 85

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: -19.2%; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.18; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 10.3%; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 10.7% per year; rating input score 100; 60th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 8.3% per year; rating input score 100; 58th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 9.1% per year; rating input score 100; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 85.3% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $198K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
  • Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 7 filing years from 2012 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.

  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 7/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 18/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 21/100.