The Children's Home Project
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 461065421
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2018–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-N 2012
- Location
- Chandler, AZ, USA
- Phone
- 6025746612
- Rating
- 76
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Promotion of International Understanding
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $557,049
- Expenses
- $621,582
- Assets
- $410,412
- Liabilities
- $2,502
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JASON PAULING (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- JENNIFER KAST (FOUNDER AND DIRECTOR): $27,615 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The children's home project exists to increase the love, safety, nourishment and hope in the lives of honduran children through educational opportunities, healing from past trauma in a family atmosphere.
What it reported doing in 2025
Pronino is our children's home, where 26 children, teens and young adults live, learn, love, and play full-time.our home is run family-style, with an average of 8 children living per house and a team of 4-5 loving caretakers to raise our kids 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.in our home, we focus on healing through mental health resources and positive parenting, physical well-being through good nutrition and exercise, and spiritual well-being, allowing our kids to pursue and practice religion as they choose. Our kids attend private schools in the city of el progreso and love participating in club soccer, art classes, band, and many other enrichment activities. The ages of our children range from 13-26 years old. Whenever our kids graduate from high school, they transition into our university program, where they can live more independently in our university house and receive an education at the institution that best suits their career choice. Children are placed in our care through child protective services of honduras, known as senaf. They are taken out of their homes for a variety of reasons, most commonly abuse, neglect, or violence. While the history of each child is so different, the attachment disorders and developmental trauma they've experienced is often similar. For this reason, we believe strongly in raising our children in a trauma-informed manner. We run our home based on trust-based relational intervention, or tbri, which is an attachment-based, trauma-informed intervention to meet the complex needs of vulnerable children. We use the term "children's home" instead of the term orphanage" because the reality is, most of our children are not true orphans. The majority of children have biological family of some sort, with whom we encourage and foster relationship with when it is healthy to do so.
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 - 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: 97
- Transparency & Controls: 55
- Accountability: 73
- Sustainability: 28
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 90.5%; rating input score 91
- Fundraising efficiency: $802.79 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 96; 96th 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: 75%; rating input score 75; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 71
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- 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: -11.6%; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.66; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 64; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 4.4%; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 10.4% per year; rating input score 100; 59th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 7.3% per year; rating input score 100; 50th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 13.5% per year; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 90.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 3 of 4 board members independent · 5 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $563K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $28K · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 30 of 30 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and foreign activity
- Filing history: 7 filing years from 2018 to 2025
- 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.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 12/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 31/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 51/100.