The Grandmaster Project
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 274250851
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2024
- Location
- Manassas, VA, USA
- Phone
- 2402520695
- Rating
- 42
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $182,633
- Expenses
- $187,472
- Assets
- $28,857
- Liabilities
- $203
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Philippe Prosper (President)
- James Whitley III (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Philippe Prosper (President)
- James Whitley III (Vice President)
- Walt Blackwell (Board Chairman)
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 Corporation is specifically formed to equip the next generation of believers as ambassadors for Christ to glorify God as we make and grow fully devoted followers of Jesus Christ and to conduct any other activities permissible under Virginia law.
What it reported doing in 2025
3. Creation of Licensed Curriculum Materials: The organization developed fully structured, age-appropriate curriculums for each of the three discipleship programs.These materials include lesson plans, character development frameworks, and instructional guides. The curriculumsare being prepared for licensing and distribution to other faith-based institutions and martial arts organizations, expanding the reach and impact of our mission.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 78% 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
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 2
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 21
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 2.3%; rating input score 2
- Program expense ratio: 2.2%; rating input score 2
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: -2.6%; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.15; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 56.4%; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 2.3% of revenue deployed · 2.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $4K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 2/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 2/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 24/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 16/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 4/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 40/100.