The Episcopal Project
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 922533458
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2023–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Richmond, VA, USA
- Phone
- 2025286257
- Rating
- 96
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Religious Printing, Publishing
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $79,986
- Expenses
- $86,593
- Assets
- $5,677
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
People named in this filing
- KENDRA HAMILTON (Director)
- NATHANIEL KETTLEWELL (Director)
- KIMBERLY FERGUSON (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 episcopal projects's purpose is to help episcopal churches and organizations protect their history and to help episcopal churches use its history to care for its people now and into the future. By providing expertise and means for immediate and long-term care of their historical records, individual stories, and sacred spaces, we seek to creat tools and digital infrastructure that serves the episcopal church and its congregations. We give special attention to church records and individual stories at the greatest risk of being lost due to the age of our elders, locations in areas of environmental threat or disaster, and the dispacement of people and records due to church closures, and the consolidation of churches in rural and urban environments. In addition, we focus on preserving and protecting records and recording stories that reflect the full history of the episcopal church, including those of people and places that may not have received warranted attention to date.
What it reported doing in 2025
This was the third year of operation for the Episcopal Project (EP). Achievements included obtaining 1st grant from the Historical Society of the Episcopal Church (HSEC) for work with the Episcopal Diocese of Southern Virginia; obtaining 1st grant from the Virginia Humanities to digitize and make available to the public more than 500 pages of records, ranging in date between 1723 and 1821, of two colonial parishes in Tidewater, Virginia; working with Pine Ridge Episcopal Mission in South Dakota to create an archival inventory of the records of 9 Episcopal churches, ranging in date from the 1870s to the present; and presenting free webinar with the Episcopal Parish Network for 200 participants about taking care of church records.Added 300 additional items Digital Archive. Created, curated, & hosted special exhibit on historic NJ church on EP website. Created public interface for EP Digital Archive on EP website. Began building EP social media presence.
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
- 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 - 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: 100
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 24
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- 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: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -8.3%; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.07; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 150% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 80.2% per year; rating input score 100; 98th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 24.6% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $87K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2023 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 31/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 11/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.