The Dirt Road Project Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 814968003
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2018–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Jun 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2017
- Location
- Rochester, NY, USA
- Phone
- 5857489185
- Rating
- 83
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Housing Development, Construction, Management
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $30,185
- Expenses
- $21,523
- Assets
- $14,443
- Liabilities
- $934
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- April Benson (President and CEO/Treasurer)
People named in this filing
- Christine Hinkley (Member)
- Katsner Etienne MD (Member)
- April Benson (President and CEO/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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The Dirt Road Project inspires courageous living through empowering disadvantaged peoples with hope, passion, and purpose and leads in love to reach the broken with respect and integrity.
What it reported doing in 2024
The SPROUT Community Garden program was developed in 2020and is located in the community of Sapaterre within theCentral Plateau of Haiti. Since its inception, multiplefamilies have been afforded nutritious food as well as training in growing personal gardens and the proper management of growing fruit trees.TDRP needed to suspend all operations as of March 1st, 2024 in Haiti due to multiple factors: 1) Increased gang activity in the central Plateau, and 2) Theft of assets of TDRP.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 74% 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
STRONG - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 78
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 57
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 68.3%; rating input score 68
- Program expense ratio: 95.7%; rating input score 96
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: 28.7%; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.67; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.06; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -10.7% per year; rating input score 0; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -9.9% per year; rating input score 0; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 30.3% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 68.3% of revenue deployed · 95.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $21K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 7 filing years from 2018 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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 — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 36/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 20/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.