The Global Orphan Project
Legal name: The Global Orphan Project Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 816079539
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Aug 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-N 2021
- Location
- Kansas City, MO, USA
- Phone
- 816-536-8333
- Rating
- 78
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Named Trusts N.E.C.
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $32,340,298
- Expenses
- $26,416,435
- Assets
- $19,238,219
- Liabilities
- $1,555,714
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
19 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JOE KNITTIG (CEO)
- ADRIEN LEWIS (PRESIDENT, CAREPORTAL)
- JESSICA RAY (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, GOEX)
Highest reported compensation
- ADRIEN LEWIS (PRESIDENT, CAREPORTAL): $145,432 total reported compensation
- JOE KNITTIG (CEO): $136,256 total reported compensation
- DOMINGO MOTA (AREA DIRECTOR): $126,377 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To break the orphan cycle so more children can grow up where they belong—at home.
What it reported doing in 2024
Sharing the needs of the most vulnerable with people in proximity who care. Careportal is our care-sharing technology platform that drives action for children and families in crisis. Careportal connects local care stakeholders such as the faith community, businesses, education, government, nonprofits, and individuals to collaborate in caring for vulnerable children and families in their communities. Additional detail can be found at www.careportal.org.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 82% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 59% for direct work, and 41% for grants.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. The filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 82
- Transparency & Controls: 70
- Accountability: 81
- Sustainability: 61
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 74.7%; rating input score 75
- Program expense ratio: 90%; rating input score 90
- Fundraising efficiency: $231.13 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 94.1%; rating input score 94; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: 0 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Claims monitoring procedures: Fail
- Requires narrative reports: Fail
- Conducts field audits: Fail
- May suspend future funding: Fail
- Requires financial reports: Fail
- Conducts site visits: Fail
- Requires grant agreements: Fail
- May require repayment: Fail
- Grant itemization coverage: 89.4%; rating input score 89; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 66.7%; rating input score 67; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 18.3%; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.73; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.08; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 4.5%; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 16.3% per year; rating input score 100; 86th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 13.6% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 14.8% per year; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 3 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 74.7% of revenue deployed · 90% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 6 of 9 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $23.8M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $145K · 19 people listed
- Consistency: 40 of 42 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
- Schedules: 11 filed schedules · includes major donors, foreign activity, and grants
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 38 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 30 filed related-organization links
- 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight: 8 of 8 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 26/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Foreign grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 55/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Federal audit findings: this organization reported findings in its latest federal Single Audit.